Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-14-Speech-3-172-000"
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"Mr President, three things are certain in life: death, taxes and constant rises in the EU budget. Our gross and net contributions as a country are shooting up, and it is not just us. At a time when all 27 Member States are looking to find cuts in their domestic spending, all of those savings are being swallowed up in their higher contributions to Brussels.
Now we are told that all this money is being used to create jobs and stimulate prosperity. Those Members who do not read English might like to look at Frédéric Bastiat on the question of creating jobs, the question of seen and unseen costs. Every euro that we take out of the private sector to create jobs is a euro that would have otherwise been spent on creating actual wealth. The only jobs we are creating here are the jobs of people whose job is to destroy genuine job creation: the licensors, the inspectors, the clerks, the compliance officers, the whole regulatory machine of EU enforcement.
How can we carry on in a system where, in order to pay for these constantly rising budgets, simply in the time that I have been speaking, my constituents have handed over something like GBP 120 000? So I am going to stop speaking and sit down."@en1
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