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"Mr President, I wonder if you will permit me to gallop through the working day of the average Englishman. He wakes up and turns on his taxed television to get the news; he leaves his heavily taxed house; gets in his heavily taxed car; he fills it with heavily taxed diesel. He then gets to work to earn an income which, after income tax, employer and employee national insurance, is reduced by a third. He drives home and stops on the high street for a few articles for the house. His purchases are taxed at 20%. He calls in for a pint, over two-thirds of the cost of which goes in tax. He dreams of a family holiday abroad, but he cannot afford the airport tax. He longs for the day that he can retire, but the politicians will not let him go. We must steal his savings, must we not, through the financial transaction tax? The poor sap does not even know we have nicked it. Of course, with the Commission’s top income-tax-free salaries and non-contributory pension schemes, it is difficult for you to imagine his distress, is it not? You are not in this game, are you? You do not pay any of this. You do not pay any of this.
On a more technical note, I draw the House's attention to my own lunatic committee’s Amendment 39 to Article 4a on the withdrawal of legal title to untaxed transactions anywhere in the world. This is sugar in the petrol tank, if you will. We are very much looking forward to the vote. We are watching to see which imbeciles commend it. I suspect it will be usual parliamentarian flat-earthers."@en1
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