Fabio Fazio, a prominent Italian broadcaster, said tax avoiders were complicit in deaths from the virus.
"It has become evident that those who do not pay their taxes are not only guilty of a crime, but of murder: if the beds and the respirators are not there they are partly to blame," he wrote in an article for La Repubblica last month.
Too bad that in the US both parties would be racing each other to see who could bail them out first.