“We want to see measures to implement taxation justice for ordinary working people. We want an end to the policy of many years now, of huge tax concessions for big corporations and a plethora of stealth taxes on ordinary families and ordinary working people.”

—  Joe Higgins

In November 2003. breakingnews.ie http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/higgins-mccreevy-must-deliver-tax-justice-in-budget-123560.html

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