{"id":27931,"date":"2017-11-14T06:40:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27931"},"modified":"2017-11-14T06:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:40:32","slug":"what-will-push-them-over-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27931","title":{"rendered":"What Will Push Them Over the Edge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Will Push Them Over the Edge?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Recently, the people of two of Italy\u2019s most prosperous regions voted in a referendum, on whether they wished to have greater autonomy from Rome. The referendum is non-binding, but that\u2019s not what\u2019s most significant in the results.<\/p>\n

What is significant is that over 95% of those who voted in Lombardy did so in favour of greater autonomy. In Veneto, the number in favour of greater autonomy was even higher, at 98%.<\/p>\n

Roberto Maroni, president of Lombardy, said, \u201cI now have a commitment\u2026 to go to Rome and give concrete actualization to the mandate that millions of Lombards have given me.\u201d<\/p>\n

It may appear on the surface that Mister Maroni intends to make an appeal for independence, but this is not what will occur. He\u2019s a politician and won\u2019t invite Rome to jail him for sedition. His goal will instead be to demand that a greater amount of the national income that\u2019s generated by Lombardy and Veneto (about 20% of the total) remains within those regions.<\/p>\n

This will not mean that he wants his people to be taxed less; his goal will be to retain a larger portion to be absorbed by the regional governments\u2014to be in his own hands.<\/p>\n

So much for the politicians\u2019 agenda. But what does the referendum say about the people of the regions? Well, the extraordinarily high numbers in favour of greater self-determination demonstrate that virtually all the people in the regions have figured out that Rome is bilking them of their earnings and they\u2019re getting pretty cheesed off.<\/p>\n

In prosperous times, a population tends not to complain too much about being robbed through taxation. They grumble a bit, but tolerate it. However, in more stringent times, when people are finding it more difficult to make ends meet, they become more resentful of governments that are chronically both overreaching and wasteful.<\/p>\n

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What Will Push Them Over the Edge? Recently, the people of two of Italy\u2019s most prosperous regions voted in a referendum, on whether they wished to have greater autonomy from Rome. The referendum is non-binding, but that\u2019s not what\u2019s most significant in the results. What is significant is that over 95% of those who voted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[17004,6228,1464,11658,16597,16598],"class_list":["post-27931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-independente","tag-international-man","tag-italy","tag-jeff-thomas","tag-lombardy","tag-veneto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27932,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27931\/revisions\/27932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}