HAVE YOUR SAY: Is Nick Clegg's "emergency tax" on the wealthy a good idea (From Bournemouth Echo)
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HAVE YOUR SAY: Is Nick Clegg's "emergency tax" on the wealthy a good idea
11:53am Wednesday 29th August 2012 in News
HAVE YOUR SAY: Is Nick Clegg's "emergency tax" on the wealthy a good idea
Nick Clegg has called on Britain's wealthiest to make an "extra contribution" to the "national effort" of economic recovery.
In an interview with the Guardian, the Deputy Prime Minister suggested people of "very considerable personal wealth" could make a "time limited contribution" as the country faced a "longer economic war".
The Lib Dem leader is expected to flesh out his thoughts on a possible "wealth tax" at the party's autumn conference in Brighton next month, according to the report.
Mr Clegg told the newspaper: "If we are going to ask people for more sacrifices over a longer period of time, a longer period of belt tightening as a country, then we just have to make sure that people see it is being done as fairly and as progressively as possible.
"While I am proud of some of the things we have done as a government I actually think we need to really hard-wire fairness into what we do in the next phases of fiscal restraint. If we don't do that I don't think the process will be either socially or politically sustainable or acceptable."
His comments appear to indicate a renewed bid to better differentiate his party's economic approach within the Coalition with Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives.
Mr Clegg added: "If we want to remain cohesive and prosperous as a society, people of very considerable personal wealth have got to make a bit of an extra contribution.
"In addition to our standing policy on things like the mansion tax is there a time limited contribution you can ask in some way or another from people of considerable wealth so they feel they are making a contribution to the national effort? What we are embarked on is in some senses a longer economic war rather than a short economic battle."
Commenting on the interview, Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow treasury minister, said: "Nick Clegg is once again taking the British people for fools. He talks about a tax on the wealthiest, but he voted for the tax cut for millionaires in George Osborne's Budget.
"And he has supported a failing economic plan which has pushed Britain into a double-dip recession and is leading to borrowing going up by a quarter so far this year."
Comments(16)
The Liberal
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12:13pm Wed 29 Aug 12
ben111
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12:22pm Wed 29 Aug 12
afcb-mark
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12:27pm Wed 29 Aug 12
Merleyman
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12:27pm Wed 29 Aug 12
dvdr
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12:47pm Wed 29 Aug 12
The Lib-Dems are clearly on the way out, hastened by their nonsense leader!
We desperately need another general election, in an attempt to clear out the greedy and useless politicians cluttering up the system.
djkent
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12:58pm Wed 29 Aug 12
fedupwithjobsworths
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1:04pm Wed 29 Aug 12
ekimnoslen
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1:06pm Wed 29 Aug 12
Huey
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1:35pm Wed 29 Aug 12
Does anyone really believe anything he says after he broke his election promises?
Does anyone trust him to keep his word?
Seeing as his boss is a Tory, what are these plans ever going to come to?
hrryseccombe
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1:56pm Wed 29 Aug 12
"A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore – as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together – according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network"
Gaurdian 21/7/2012
yep that's 13,000,000,000,000 pounds sterling which is 21,000,000,000,000 dollars.
http://www.guardian.
co.uk/business/2012/
jul/21/global-elite-
tax-offshore-economy
?fb=native&CMP=FBCNE
TTXT9038
penhale
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2:03pm Wed 29 Aug 12
The ordinary working person in this country had no part to play in the situation this country is in at the moment, only the bankers and politicians are at fault.
As someone said earlier stop paying money to so called third world countries who have their own rocket and nuclear weapons programmes, stop taking in foreigners who have paid nothing into the system but reap all the benefits, stop paying MPs expenses, there are loads of options to save money but then it's not their money, it's ours, so they don't really care, above all lets get rid of scammeron and Clegg at the earliest oppertunity.
We don't need to be taxed more, we need money put back into our pockets in order to revive our economy.
Aviewoneverything
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2:28pm Wed 29 Aug 12
Phixer
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3:21pm Wed 29 Aug 12
Aviewoneverything wrote:Are you thinking of running for PM next time?
Whils I'm not rich myself and believe that those that are should pay that little bit more, I think the best way we can save some money is by stopping all benefit payments to all the alcoholics, drug abusers and lazy bone idol gits that refuse to work, because they get more on the dole than from doing lower paid jobs. The welfare state is being totally abused and we are letting it happen by turning a blind eye or sympathising with these lazy swines.
How would you deal with all the vested interests?
Dibby1966
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8:19pm Wed 29 Aug 12
bosco1
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8:29am Fri 31 Aug 12
Cerdicjute says...
12:02pm Wed 29 Aug 12