The mayor of Como Alessandro Rapinese intervened on the case of brioche for 4 euros in a bar in the center raised by Forza Italia regional councilor Sergio Gaddi. “There are two ways of conceiving the economy – he said as a guest on ETV – There is Communism and there is the free and liberal world. Either the State controls everything and even the prices and then we have seen that it goes to pieces, or there is the free and liberal world where everyone sets the prices and the user consumes where he wants”.
“Personally I realize when I leave the office to quickly eat something that prices in the center of Como have increased – added the mayor – But let’s ask ourselves what the State can do to regulate prices: do we block them? Do we regulate them as in the model that certain parts of Europe have governed for years, where the State establishes that the brioche costs 30 cents? Can we impose prices for residents? I think it’s the market that needs to regulate itself.”
“And then – concluded Rapinese – there are many honest merchants who have affordable and correct prices. The user must choose carefully where to enter and one cannot lump everything together. In many bars in the center of Como there are the same prices as in the station”.
A brief final mention also of the Venice-style hypothesis on the ticket to manage tourist access to the city: “It is certainly something to discuss. Meanwhile, in July we will start with a project to read license plates and cameras that will allow us to carry out investigations and statistics.”
