RF has repeatedly asked the Government to intervene to mitigate the impact of the high bills on families in difficulty and on businesses. All states have done so, to a greater or lesser extent, to limit to limit the authorization and protect the purchasing power of citizens in the face of expensive energy, especially the lower income groups. For example, Italy has created a bonus made available to millions of individuals (citizens and businesses), financed with a purpose tax (on the extra profits of energy companies). however weak it is and unable to concretely support the citizens of San Marino who risk suffering the heaviest impact from these increases. There are very few potential beneficiaries: unemployed and destitute people and economic operators with strong reductions in turnover or increased costs. Nobody else. Among other things, these subjects are selected (in the case of individuals) without even looking at their income, with the risk therefore of helping those who would not need it: how important was it, for these needs, to have the Icee available, which it had to help to really help the families certified as most in difficulty, but the government has also put this tool in the attic (like many other things that had been prepared and almost finished in the past legislature). The support measures are also minimal: subjects can only enjoy a deferred payment for 2022, therefore in the 2023 and 2022 bills they must pay the measures. Only for the poor (earners of the minimum family income and people who they asked for help from Caritas) there is a 25% discount on the 2022 tickets. The excuse is always the same: “there is no money”. But it is an old and inadequate excuse because this measure should not be financed with deficit or debt, but with ad hoc interventions, perhaps cuts in superfluous and useless expenses (travel, consultancy, purchases of very expensive machinery that remain unused, etc.) which would easily allow to find resources to help families. Once again our government has shown its profound inadequacy in defining priorities and effective interventions to meet existing needs. But, from the latest statements, it almost seems that what was done freely, to push towards energy saving: if this were the will, it would still be tragic.

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