Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-03-08-Speech-2-317-000"
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"en.20110308.22.2-317-000"2
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"The report is an insult to the intelligence of the working classes and the grassroots classes, which are suffering under the barbaric war unleashed on them by capital and its political representatives. It clarifies from the outset that there can be no question of taxing capital: ‘emphasises that an increase in the rates and the scope of existing taxation … can be neither a sufficient nor a sustainable solution’. However, in order to deceive the workers, it calls on the EU to adopt a ‘financial transaction tax’ of 0.01%, which is presented as an allegedly ‘fair distribution of the burden’ of the crisis between capital and the workers and an effort to limit speculation by capital. At the same time, direct taxation on poor grassroots classes is being increased and indirect taxation, which literally eats into working class and grassroots incomes, is being pushed through the roof. The financial transaction tax is not a tax on the financial sector; it is another indirect tax. Alongside this new indirect tax, a whole series of so-called ‘innovative financing’ measures, or rather new taxes on grassroots incomes, is also proposed, such as a ‘carbon tax’, a ‘solidarity contribution on air tickets’, even a ‘global lottery’ to combat hunger. The Greek Communist Party voted against this particular report, underlining that the only popular way out of the capitalist crisis is to target the profits of the monopolies."@en1
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