Vacca: Children of the wealthy don't need bonuses to go to the museum. 18app recalibrated based on income

The culture bonus for 18-year-olds (the 500 euros to spend on books, theaters, museums, and, in general, cultural products) will be profoundly revised and will be reshaped on the basis of income. The minister of cultural heritage, Alberto Bonisoli, for that matter, had never made a secret that he did not like the measure introduced by the Renzi government. Thus, thanks to an amendment to the 2019 maneuver approved in the Budget Committee, 18app (this is the name of the bonus) will be linked to the Isee, which will determine the beneficiaries. The measure will apply starting in 2019, for those born in 2001: for those born in the year 2000, however, the current measure will remain unchanged. The distribution channel will still be the 18app website.

The undersecretary for cultural heritage, Gianluca Vacca (M5S), also intervened on the issue with a video on his Facebook page, in which he did not spare some attacks on the Pd. “For the government of change,” Vacca reiterated, “culture is a strategic sector on which to invest for the growth of the country system and all citizens. The Pd attacks us because they claim that there would be cuts to culture in the people’s maneuver: it is incredible how they lie knowing they are lying. Nothing more untrue of course, because not only are there no cuts, but we invest in important areas of culture. We confirm money for 18-year-olds, to buy books, to go to the theater, to enter our wonderful museums. Only, we recalibrate it according to income, so it will not be money for everyone also because we imagine that a child of a well-off family does not need help from the state to go to the museum or go to the theater. So money for young people, for the weakest and most deprived, lower-middle economic groups. And yet we also invest in so many other strategic areas of our culture: we put resources for the digitization of our cultural heritage, we put resources for cultural events in earthquake-stricken areas, we put resources in cinema, resources in FUS and in support of entertainment, we increase money for entertainment. In short, so many measures to support culture and increase culture funding. And for the umpteenth time the PD has personified an opportunity to avoid lying to citizens.”

Vacca: Children of the wealthy don't need bonuses to go to the museum. 18app recalibrated based on income

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