Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-01-18-Speech-4-098"

Predicate	Value (sorted: none)
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:spokenAs	member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Canada (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Front national (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". As usual, the at first sight laudable intentions of a European Parliament report turn out to conceal the worst. In this case, the matter is charging for transport infrastructure. You have to read between the lines, though, to see exactly what it is talking about and if you do so, you come across two of the pet themes of this institution: the creation of an environment tax and the war waged on road transport and the car. The one main purpose hinted at in the report is to impose yet more taxes on the road users, who are already treated like Europe’s cash cows, and perhaps even to install toll gates and charge for the use of the main roads or minor roads. What planet do we think we are on? When the price of fuel is prohibitive, at five to six times the refinery sale price because more than 80% of the price is made up of taxes, you might well think that the road user is already paying more than enough for the right to use the public road network in proportion to the use he makes of his car. That is without mentioning all the other types of road tax; it is too long a list and the litany of amounts involved is too depressing. Indeed, after reading this report, one wonders just what the taxes we pay are actually used for. Nothing, apparently, since in France, for example, the administration’s skimming off half the national wealth does not enable it to ensure the safety of the people, to achieve general welfare, to preserve their quality of life or to provide a consistent and effective transport policy. The state, the States, should think primarily of the way they use our money before giving Brussels any sort of power to needlessly make the situation worse."@en1
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
lpv:speaker	lp:Carl Lang2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010118.4.4-098"2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-01-18"^^xsd:date2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-01-18-Speech-4-0992
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ECON (1999-09-09--2002-01-14)3

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