Lira Euro passage. The Consulta ascertains that we have been robbed
The sensation, with the transition from the Lira to the Euro, of having been robbed was immediate. The traders (those who have been crying about the crisis for a few years) they immediately took advantage of this to double the prices. With the approval of the State, which, as well as not forcing them to display the double Lira-Euro price for at least a couple of years, it doubled its bills and rates itself. Even inserting paper coins would have been enough 1 e 2 euro, to give more weight to money and greater awareness for consumers when spending it.
Come? Through the Save Italy rule (law 201/2011 art. 26), which he anticipated to 6 December 2011 the deadline for converting old liras into euros. A full three months in advance, given that the law of 2002 (introduced to manage the introduction of the euro) instead he stared at the 28 February 2012 the end of the right of exchange.
An advance that benefited the State between 1,2 e 1,6 billions of euros that, instead of ending up in the pockets of Italians in possession of the lire, were paid by Bank of Italy in three installments into state coffers to contribute to the reduction of public debt. That public debt that has been eating away at us for decades and that no government has been able to reduce.
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