Sir, – I know we are in difficult economic times. But there is one easy decision that could spare a lot of the “tough ones”. A tax on the banks could raise £20 billion in the UK to help those hit by the financial crisis in this country and around the world.
For every cut I hear the Government announce I keep asking: could a tax on the banks have paid for that?
The situation we find ourselves in started in the financial sector and we spent £1.4bn bailing them out. We are all paying for a party we weren’t quite invited to.
I want to see my MP and leaders start fighting for a tax that would make Robin Hood proud.
Another measure would be tracing “tax avoiders” and acting against them; not all benefit claimants are “scroungers”.
ROSE NUGENT Dodds Street, Darlington
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