Well, and additionally, as I read in today's Daily Express (on the frontpage, besides the naked knee of Rachel Hunts):Brussels plans to raid wages, and thus Britons will be forced to pay a crippling European Union tax under a shock plan which was revealed yesterday. [Couldn't find anything more about it in other publications/media, though.]
source: Daily Express, print version, pages 1, 2
And the Daily Express' comments reads like this:
Quote:Tax to Brussels plan must be quashed immediately
SO THE truth is finally out. There was a time when critics of the European Union were concerned that Brussels would try to obtain British taxpayers' money by stealth. As we now learn, there is no longer any fear of that.
No, the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is quite open about the EU's future plans. Britons should pay a European Union tax directly to Brussels, he says, without it having to go through the meddlesome British Government. The tax would be the equivalent of 3.5p in the pound and it also has the backing of a host of senior EU figures.
This proposal must be quashed immediately before it is too late. The Prime Minister is clearly incapable of looking after our interests when it comes to the EU - his capitulation over the British rebate proves that - but even he and his lickspittle Government must stand up for their country over this.
Paying a federal tax to Brussels would not only end British sovereignty and sideline the British Parliament - it would also give the EU bureaucrats a charter to fritter away your money. And make no mistake, whatever tax was first levied would rocket shortly afterwards, only to be thrown away with all the other billions of pounds of European waste.
We are already saddled with a tax-andspend Government. The very last thing we need is an even closer alliance to a tax-and- squander Europe.
Daily Express, page 12.
