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Nick Clegg demands emergency tax on Britain's richest people
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| Last Edited | RP Sep 02, 2012 09:13pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Nicholas Watt |
| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Britain's wealthiest people should face an emergency tax to avoid a breakdown in social cohesion as the country fights an "economic war" caused by a longer than expected recession, Nick Clegg has said.
In the first interview by a senior member of the cabinet to mark the new political season, the deputy prime minister told the Guardian he is embarking on a battle to persuade his Tory coalition partners of the need to ensure the rich shoulder a greater burden of the economic pain.
"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," Clegg said.
"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." |
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