PEOPLE WILL NOT PAY DEBTS OF BANKERS

“THE CAMPAIGN against Household and Water Taxes and Septic Tank Charges has been building huge momentum over the past couple of months.   Everywhere the message is clear; people cannot and will not pay the debts of bankers and property developers”, said Cllr Declan Bree when he spoke at a Protest Demonstration against household and water taxes, in O’Connell Street, on Saturday afternoon last.

Earlier over 400 people marched from the GPO to Minister of State, John Perry’s office in Old Market Street, where a letter of protest from the Sligo Campaign against all Household and Water Taxes was delivered.

Cllr Bree told the protesters that only a few years back the Fine Gael leader Mr Enda Kenny said that it was morally unjust and unfair to tax a person’s home.

“This is the same Enda Kenny who is now proposing to impose a tax on everyone’s home in this country.” said Cllr Bree.

“Mr Kenny described a household charge as ‘a vampire tax in that it drives a stake through the heart of home ownership’.

“And that is exactly what Mr Kenny and his colleagues in Fine Gael and Labour are attempting to impose - a vampire tax that will increase from €100 to €800 within two year – a vampire tax that will crucify households and families the length and breath of this country.

“And Mr Kenny and his cohorts in the Labour Party propose to use the monies raised by this vampire tax, to pay off the private debts of the speculators, the developers, the bankers and the bondholders – the vampires who have sucked the life blood out of our nation and out of our people.

“Today we are telling Mr Kenny and Mr Gilmore – and we are telling their local Oireachtas colleagues, John Perry, Tony McLoughlin, Imelda Henry, Susan O’Keeffe and Michael Comiskey, that we are not going to be bullied or browbeaten by their threats – that we are going to stand united – that we will not register for this vampire tax and that we will not pay this unjust tax.” said Cllr Bree.