«There is something grotesque in reading Roberto Occhiuto today who proposes the abolition of car tax at a national level. It is welcome to lighten the tax burden on citizens. Too bad that memory is an ugly beast. When during the election campaign, at the last regional elections, Pasquale Tridico proposed to temporarily suspend the car tax in Calabria as a form of compensation for citizens forced every day to deal with bad roads, endless construction sites and inadequate infrastructure, Occhiuto himself dismissed that proposal as unfeasible and propaganda.” This was stated in a note by the vice-president of the M5S Vittoria Baldino.
«And to think – he adds – that in many regions such as Emilia-Romagna, Campania, Lazio or Tuscany, the exemption is a reality. Today, however, Occhiuto even proposes it again and presents it as a great political intuition. The difference is that Tridico started from a real problem: thousands of Calabrians pay the tax every year to use a road network that does not guarantee adequate standards of safety, maintenance and mobility. Occhiuto, on the other hand, notices the car tax after five years of regional government and after having defended every choice of the Meloni government from the differentiated autonomy to the Strait Bridge. Before proposing the abolition of the tax to the Italians, Occhiuto – according to Baldino – should explain to the Calabrians why he is not abolishing it as the M5S had proposed it at the last regional elections, as other regions do, and thus meet the difficulties of those who every day travel the road of death or the SS106, the bad provincial roads and the infrastructures that have been waiting for interventions for decades. Copying is legal. But at least he could do it with a bit of modesty.”