Italy's Pols Need to Get Real

摘要

Politicians in Italy aren't known for their sober realism, but the campaigns ahead of elections on March 4 take fantasizing to new heights. The political parties are outbidding one another with the most lavish pledges-ranging from Silvio Berlusconi's flat tax to the Five Star Movement's "citizens' income"-while offering no credible explanations of how to pay for them.