Not exact matches
Limiting benefit rises to 1 %, scrapping the planned
fuel duty increase, devolving power over teacher
pay to schools and cutting
corporation tax are steps in the right direction.
Mr Osborne announced an increase in the threshold before workers start
paying income tax to # 8,105, financial support for first - time home buyers, a two per cent cut to
corporation tax this year, a tax on private jets, a clampdown on non-doms, the introduction of # 140 flat - rate state pension, a review into a merger of national insurance and income tax and a fair
fuel stabiliser, including a 1p cut on
fuel duty.
The Greens make no bones about who will
pay for it — they will introduce a 2 % wealth tax on the top 1 %; a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions; increase
corporation tax from 20 % to 30 %; increase
fuel duty on aviation; impose an additional 60 % top rate income tax band and a plethora of other measures.
Shifting the cost of global warming to those who are disproportionately the perpetrators, Grossman argues, could make fossil
fuels more expensive and thus force
corporations to
pay more attention to renewable energy.
Some
corporations must
pay excise taxes on
fuel, transportation and manufacturing every year.
Why, after all, should governments be
paying for paved roads, when the chief beneficiary by far are private
corporations making fossil
fuel consuming vehicles?
We stand with the millions of people around the world
paying for the ignorance and arrogance of countries and fossil
fuel corporations who put the interests of profits ahead of the needs of people.
Polluters
PAY the fees, so it holds fossil
fuel corporations responsible for the damages.
And we should expect fossil
fuel corporations to
pay for a share of the harms resulting from the use of their products, both for the damages that have already occurred and the costs of preparing to limit the damages from further, now unavoidable impacts that responsible actions by these companies could have, and should have, helped to avoid.