Confartigianato chief Giorgio
Merletti said Tuesday his small-business group liked the
government's planned flat tax but not its proposed minimum wage.
He said the tax burden in Italy was "the number one enemy of
business".
The flat tax is the flagship planned policy of the
nationalist League party, led by Interior Minister and Deputy
Premier Matteo Salvini.
A nine-euro-an-hour minimum wage is the signature policy move
of the League's government partner, the anti-establishment
5-Star Movement (M5S), led by Deputy Premier and Industry and
Labour Minister Luigi Di Maio.
Merletti said the minimum wage was a "dirigiste" measure.
"It crushes wage levels and curbs trade-union freedom and pay
bargaining," he said.
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