Abstract
The comparison between federalism seems altered by the layering of two apparently similar topics, but in truth opposite: on one side, the physiological evolution of the Public Administration, on the other hand the difficulty of the entire political standard of federalism. At first sight, the federalist project seems to ride the principles of the horizontal and vertical subsidies, requiring the full actuation of fiscal federalism, being that the Italian regions sustain in full the local economies. However, even before considering high costs, worrying is the federal grasp that would amplify the social-economic diversity of the territories of our nation. In this work, there have been 23 years of reclassified regional balance sheets, from which a net prevalence of destined resources to Welfare and Education emerges, without consideration of the economic development towards which the regions would seem to be more involved and made responsible by the new institutional picture. The already precocious balances of the southern regions, even subsidized by the finances of the European Union by means of Structural Funds, would be squashed by a yet another constitutional picture of devolution of responsibilities towards territorialism, at this present time for the attention of the House of Senate: at this point, fiscal federalism would definitively affect the functioning and not the development of territorial areas.