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"Mr President, I voted against the report on this proposal for a common system for taxing financial transactions on a number of grounds. I have a fundamental objection to the concept of a proposed tax which is supposed to help us out of an economic crisis. I simply fail to see any intellectual connection between those two things. Taxes do not create growth. We should be concentrating on growth. It makes no sense at all. The consumer is the one who will pay, leaving less money to spend on things that we wish them to spend it on – the things we make, the services we provide. It will not be the bankers, who are, I presume, the target of the left of this House. I would also object because my own Member State – and I say this unashamedly – is disproportionately and, I believe, in some ways maliciously being targeted here. We must resist that at all costs."@en1
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