Last week I highlighted the need for agreements and their foundations. Now let’s see what specific topics (there are certainly more) need to be discussed.

Public finance. The important thing: the absurdly enormous need to reduce non-productive costs, which are many, cost almost 40% of GDP, more than 40,000 million dollars per year (more than 100 million per day). Identify entire areas and institutions that need to be eliminated, but first of all accept that this does not affect employment or economic activity (multiplier of public spending) because it (almost) simultaneously enables lower taxes or lower debt, which stimulates the private sector (multiplier of private spending). And other restrictions to limit public spending, because it grows like a weed again?

Analyze income in parallel. Is the income tax threshold of 37% reasonable, or a maximum of 20%? 25% for companies or no more than 15%/20%? …or exactly the opposite, should they be increased? Are tax breaks that benefit only one or the other acceptable? Higher VAT like in other countries? Should the fuel subsidy be abolished with specific targeting (eg public transport)? And how to push oil and mining?

Pension system. We have to agree on whether or not there is a serious problem…it seems obvious that there is, but some deny it. If the latter is true, secondary measures such as better administration will be sufficient. If not, you have to think about various mechanisms that may include: higher minimum age (today 60), more years of contributions that must be related to life expectancy (today there is no such relationship), monthly contribution (today just over 11 years). %), the amount of pension that must be related to age and the total amount of contributions in life (today it is almost irrelevant and 100% is achieved for the 5 best years of salary), how to introduce an essential element of solidarity in the system towards those who have the least (today biased towards those who have the most), how to think about those who reach retirement with almost no support, how to balance reasonable pensions with a financially sustainable system (today the deficit is growing explosively and is projected to exceed 100% of GDP).

Labor market. Many topics for discussion around common sense reform. I work by the hour. 15% profit. Adaptation of the schedule to the needs of each type of company. The cost of firing (keeping in mind that this almost always only applies to “bad” workers). Employer retirement (terrible system for everyone). Training programs to achieve better transitions to work.

Natural resources. Do we or do we not want to develop oil and mining, or do we believe that they are “demons” that are best exorcised, or how do we balance these resources and the natural/human environment? What kind of state and what kind of private participation in regulation, research and exploitation? How to achieve quality ecological standards? And perhaps the most important: what to do with what is generated: let it go to the state budget as is happening now, let it capitalize the reformed pension system, let it go directly to its owners, which are the citizens? …discussion on concrete surfaces… (OR)