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European Parliament, Strasbourg, 8 February 2010 Godfrey Bloom MEP; UKIP, EFD Group Commissioner, chairman, taxation as a concept hasn't really changed very much, has it, in the last 3 000 years. The rich and the powerful stealing money from ordinary people to make their own lives more comfortable. Where there has been a change in modern times is that taxation is ‘for the benefit of the taxed’: that somehow we are being taxed pro bono. In order to perpetuate this myth, we invent periodic scares to frighten people into submission. The latest of these scares is of course that, if we don't cough up green taxes, we will all boil to death. Reminiscent of the medieval religions, isn't it, which played the same game: pay up or burn in hell. Tax harmonisation is a concept dreamed up by the modern political class to make sure that no government steals too little from its people. A sort of thieves’ cartel if you will. May I suggest, that if you really want tax harmonisation, that the Commission and the bureaucracy pay the same taxes as the electorate, they bear the same burden as tax as the rest of us, before the electorate storm this building and hang us from the rafters, as they've every right to do. Euroseptik.cz, Svobodni.cz