Post by afifatabassum on Mar 13, 2024 3:59:07 GMT
Let's play a very simple game to understand how the rule that the burden of proof lies on the accused works, or rather how it does NOT work. Be careful, dear reader, because the deception of the income meter is all here: I accuse you of having STOLE €100 last year... what do you answer me? You will probably reply ''It's not true, I didn't steal anything last year, what are you saying!''. Well: PROVE IT TO ME! il_incomeometro___a_modern_inquisition_that_becomes_law You will quickly realize that it is IMPOSSIBLE to prove that you have NOT done something of this type. It's a paradox, it can't be done. You will NEVER be able to present concrete evidence that will clear you of such an accusation.
The same thing if I accuse you of having worked Brazil Phone Number illegally for €2,000 or of having evaded taxes €100,000 or anything else that crosses my mind. In the Middle Ages, during the Inquisition, the mechanism was the same: an accusation of witchcraft was made to the unfortunate person in question and it was up to him to present proof that he had never prayed to Satan or that he had never made potions, spells and various witchcraft. The accused always lost... there was no story. It is OBVIOUS that, for an elementary question of banal justice, the burden of proof should fall on the accuser and not on the accused! Yet TV, newspapers and the most popular media in general ignore this ''detail'' as if it were insignificant and support this fiscal abomination with all their might as if it were something ''good and right''! Add to this the fact that the concrete advantages for Italian citizens of the application of this unjust tax ax will be not only null but even negative! Those who have the money will no longer buy anything expensive in Italy to avoid having conflicts with the tax authorities. He will continue to buy luxury goods, but he will do it abroad, enriching the lucky country where he will spend!
The income meter, which perhaps could also have meaning if applied with common sense and with the burden of proof on the accuser, should have been put into operation at the end of the 1990s when our country's economy was booming and Italian industrial power was surpassing that of Germany. Billions of lire in tax evasion could have been recovered there without damaging the country's economy. Today, in the midst of the darkest crisis that our tormented nation has ever known since the post-war period, something like this seems to have arisen from the mind of someone who aims to transform Italy into a country of beggars. Those who have money will no longer spend it in Italy with the consequence that further jobs will be lost and with the obvious further consequence that our country will become even poorer.
The same thing if I accuse you of having worked Brazil Phone Number illegally for €2,000 or of having evaded taxes €100,000 or anything else that crosses my mind. In the Middle Ages, during the Inquisition, the mechanism was the same: an accusation of witchcraft was made to the unfortunate person in question and it was up to him to present proof that he had never prayed to Satan or that he had never made potions, spells and various witchcraft. The accused always lost... there was no story. It is OBVIOUS that, for an elementary question of banal justice, the burden of proof should fall on the accuser and not on the accused! Yet TV, newspapers and the most popular media in general ignore this ''detail'' as if it were insignificant and support this fiscal abomination with all their might as if it were something ''good and right''! Add to this the fact that the concrete advantages for Italian citizens of the application of this unjust tax ax will be not only null but even negative! Those who have the money will no longer buy anything expensive in Italy to avoid having conflicts with the tax authorities. He will continue to buy luxury goods, but he will do it abroad, enriching the lucky country where he will spend!
The income meter, which perhaps could also have meaning if applied with common sense and with the burden of proof on the accuser, should have been put into operation at the end of the 1990s when our country's economy was booming and Italian industrial power was surpassing that of Germany. Billions of lire in tax evasion could have been recovered there without damaging the country's economy. Today, in the midst of the darkest crisis that our tormented nation has ever known since the post-war period, something like this seems to have arisen from the mind of someone who aims to transform Italy into a country of beggars. Those who have money will no longer spend it in Italy with the consequence that further jobs will be lost and with the obvious further consequence that our country will become even poorer.