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收税能量巨人并且削减燃料票据
星期六， 2008年8月2日 谈论这个报告在RINF论坛 > 公司做亿万，当我们的汽油价格上升20%时，写 Sadie鲁宾逊 成千上万人横跨英国与高昂家庭能量票据奋斗。 政府可能行动通过收税油镇痛，并且气体变牢固，或者强加极限给价格上升。 反而它拒绝做将危害赢利的任何。 EDF能量由22%为气体和17%上星期再提高它的价格-为电。 在平均EDF顾客看了他们的票据上升自年初33%。 英国的气体顾客由77%张和电票据看了他们的煤气费上升由74%自2003年以来。 这些能量公司声称上涨成本迫使他们提高价格。 但他们实际上使用上升的商品价格作为借口到犁耙在赢利。 这个星期石油巨商BP报道它的赢利年的前六个月增加了23%对£6.7十亿。 在星期四英国的气体，由于宣布它的赢利，期待赢利在£100和£200百万之间。 2007年它提高价格由一淫秽500%促进它的赢利。 Centrica，英国的气体总公司，准备宣布税前赢利£880百万为今年上半年。 在鲜明对比对这riches， 4.5百万人民在英国已经是生存在“燃料贫穷” -花费超过他们的收入的10%在能量上。 当能量公司继续提高价格，一摇摆的50%设置这个图上升。 普通人也面对上升的债务停留在价格上升顶部。 大约6.8百万个家庭在英国在债务对他们的能量供应商。 总个人债务由平均£1现在上升百万每五分钟。 它也许是高度夏天，但人们已经担心怎样他们将生存以后的冬天。 燃料贫穷在英国导致在20,000个和50,000个人之间死亡毎冬天。 一在三个领抚恤金家庭年底以前预计在燃料贫穷。 Centrica’s managing director Jake Ulrich – who receives a salary of £1,033,000 a year – admits that fuel price rises are “going to hit people hard”. Fortunately he has advice for how people can soften the blow – they should wear “two jumpers instead of one”. The bosses and the government are completely removed from the reality of life for ordinary people. The government votes to keep lavish expenses for MPs – but it refuses to implement even the most minor measures that could limit the hardship faced by ordinary people. The parliamentary business and enterprise committee has investigated the energy market in light of the current crisis. But its conclusion is that the market is not functioning efficiently enough and that we need more “liberalisation”. In the face of the massive political crisis that Gordon Brown now faces, some argue that he is simply a victim of a global economic recession that is pushing up the cost of living. The massive unpopularity of New Labour following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and its constant neoliberal attacks on working people is conveniently forgotten. Brown is portrayed as powerless in the face of the global economy. Response It is true that energy and food price rises are fuelling anger with the government. But what people are really angry about is the government’s response. Brown is not powerless. There are many things he could do to ease the burden on working class people. He could implement a windfall tax on the energy companies. He could increase corporation tax. He could impose a limit on the amount that firms can raise energy prices. But instead of this New Labour has repeatedly cut corporation tax, which currently stands at just 28 percent. The People Before Profit Charter puts forward demands that would stop ordinary people sinking deeper into poverty. As well as the demands to tax corporate profits, the charter calls for an end to Brown’s 2 percent pay limit on public sector workers, the abolition of tax on fuel and energy for old people and the poor, and the restoration of the link between state pensions and average earnings. New Labour is doing none of these things because it defends the interests of the rich and business. Making sure that workers don’t pay for the crisis means building resistance on the ground. The People Before Profit Charter can help mobilise that resistance. Discuss this report in the RINF forums > Have Your Say: Tax the energy giants and cut fuel bills This entry was posted on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm and is filed under Contributions & Guests . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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