Venice votes to split from Italy as 89% of the city's residents opt to form a new independent state
*Wealthy residents are opposing high taxes which support poorer south
*Venice gets 21 billion euros less in grants than it gives in taxes per year
*Overwhelming 89 per cent majority voted to break away from Italy
*Activists have been working with SNP and attended rallies in Scotland
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Venetians have voted overwhelmingly for their own sovereign state in a ‘referendum’ on independence from Italy.
Inspired by Scotland’s separatist ambitions, 89 per cent of the residents of the lagoon city and its surrounding area, opted to break away from Italy in an unofficial ballot.
The proposed ‘Repubblica Veneta’ would include the five million inhabitants of the Veneto region and could later expand to include parts of Lombardy, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Residents of Venice have voted 89 per cent to leave Italy and become an independent state in protest at high taxes levied on the wealthy in order to prop up the poor and crime ridden Mezzogiorno south
Residents of Venice have voted 89 per cent to leave Italy and become an independent state in protest at high taxes levied on the wealthy in order to prop up the poor and crime ridden Mezzogiorno south
The floating city has only been part of Italy for 150 years. The 1000 year–old democratic Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, was quashed by Napoleon and was subsumed into Italy in 1866.
Wealthy Venetians, under mounting financial pressure in the economic crisis, have rallied in their thousands, after growing tired of supporting Italy’s poor and crime ridden Mezzogiorno south, through high taxation.
Activists have been working closely with the SNP on their joint agendas, even travelling to Scotland alongside Catalonians and Basque separatists to take part in pro independence rallies.
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Campaigners say that the Rome government receives around 71 billion euros each year in tax from Venice - some 21 billion euros less than it gets back in investment and services.
Organisers said that 2.36million, 73 per cent, of those eligible to take part voted in the poll, which is not recognised by the Rome government.
The ballot also appointed a committee of ten who immediately declared independence from Italy. Venice may now start withholding taxes from Rome.
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in order for us be fully in that form of government, the whole human mentality is need to be re-wired, where virtues, righteousness rules, with the moral values, not by fear – so far our planet is not even close to that state of being – one day perhaps ;))
Sylvain: Yes, we have been TAUGHT that we need a government - I say BULL!
Sylvain: Agree with you Sylvain that no one should control the mental working of someone - the GODverment (Well, that's at least WHO THEY THINK THEY ARE).
Sylvain: I agree, Sylvain. Government has outlived it's use.
"government means to control the mental"
No it does not. Government means "A group of people that governs a community or unit. It sets and administers public policy and exercises executive, political and sovereign power through customs, institutions, and laws within a state."
There's nothing there about mental control.
By definition, it's impossible to control the mentality of people. It can be influenced, but never controlled.
"there is no need for control as we have our internal guidance that guides us"
And what does your internal guidance say about your countrys current policy on sewer system operations, and what improvements can you offer that your govt hasn't already done in that department?
Do you have dyslexia or something?
I wrote one thing and you read something completely different.
"one minute you say you need governments and the other you say it as nothing to do with internal knowing.."
My question was: "What does psysical govt have to do with internal mentality?"
The mentality and knowing of you and me have nothing to do with whether your sewer-system or the traffic-lights will be working tomorrow or not, unless you're the one responsible for those systems that is.
What does psysical govt have to do with internal mentality?
I visited Venice..
its a dream like floating city
reminiscent of anciant atlantis
To ride in a gondola is a tradition and the st peters sq there are the thousands of pigeons
Some form of govt is usually needed when a community grows beyond 200 people.
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