I’ve just had this email from left-wing Labour MP Richard Burgon for a tax on the superrich one per cent to be imposed instead of the Tories’ increase on National Insurance, which will affect the working class.
‘People are being hit by a cost-of-living emergency from soaring energy bills, high inflation, falling real-term wages and cuts to Universal Credit.
Yet next month the Tories are going to make this even worse by hiking National Insurance on ordinary working people.
I’ve launched a campaign to scrap this tax rise on working people and to replace it with a Wealth Tax on the richest 1%.
I’ve put down a parliamentary motion calling for this – already backed by over 60 MPs from 8 parties.
Next week I’ll be presenting a public petition in parliament calling for the Tories to scrap this National Insurance rise and replace it with a Wealth Tax.
Will you back my campaign by adding your name to the petition I am presenting in Parliament next week?
Sign the petition to tell the Tories: we want a Wealth Tax not a National Insurance rise‘
I’ve absolutely no problem with signing the petition. Since the election of Thatcher, the Tory party has given massive tax cuts to the rich, which has been offset by shifting the tax burden onto the working class. The proposed National Insurance tax hike is part of that policy. It’s time it was ended and the rich were made to pay their fair share.
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