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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Abolish Tax Havens, Enact Tobin Tax & Reform CAP for an end to poverty world-wide. More details
Submitted by Mark Barrett of People in Common – Deadline to sign up by: 12 November 2009 – Signatures: 106
More details from petition creator
1. Tax Havens: clear up all tax havens (11.5 trillion dollars). This is essential if we are to have an open, transparent system and a fair global fiscal authority.
2. Tobin Tax/CTT: bring in levy on international currency trade, a tax to create:
(i) billions in revenue for global public services. Levy monies to be ring-fenced for Millennium Development Goals. (ii) redistribution to the most needy, via regional social funds or direct to grassroots organisations for universal provision of housing, sanitation, clean water and food. (iii) the 'response element' of your proposed early warning system. CTT is a means by which to cool markets by levying higher when markets look to overheat. (iv) conditions for an end to poverty and injustice, and therefore unrest.
3. Common Agricultural Policy Reform: half the EU budget (33 billion GBP) is now spent on CAP. This severely curtails agricultural competitivity in the poorest sections of the world. End all CAP subsidies to large corporations and landowners. Keep CAP subsidies for small farms, and extend to other local EU projects for food sovereignty, provision of social housing, self-governance structures and other basic services.
Current signatories
Mark Barrett, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- stephen graham
- Richard Solly
- Alexandra Deller
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- Mark Sanders-Barwick
- Daniel Estermann
- Adrian R Williams
- denis w hawkins
- John Strange.
- Nicola Ansell
- Anna Karlsson
- John Christensen
- James Toone
- Vicki Lesley
- peter fennell
- Megan Redmond
- Greg Bailey
- Mark Dawes
- Chris Olende
- Richard Wyatt
- Matti Kohonen
- Robert Clayton
- Nat Harding
- Denise Carroll
- Joe Merriman
- Marian Hoffman
- Dr Joseph Healy
- Philip Sainty
- Susan Murray
- Tim Watkins-Idle
- Joan Allen
- Ann Hillier
- Gwyneth Lonergan
- Martin Deane
- David M. Davison
- Arthur Hayles
- Cllr Philip Booth
- Ian Crawford
- soraya boyd
- Wilma Parkinson
- Kirsten Forkert
- Bruno Dale
- Rachel Bird
- Paul C.Dyer
- Catherine Rayne
- Joty Barker
- Phil Dunk
- Daud Juneja
- Louis Burton
- Jeremy Evans
- Jane Miller
- Alex Lee
- sinead a tomkins
- Ian Marshall
- Rob Levy
- Ken Ilett
- Sofia Mason
- Ayokunle Adeyemi
- Teresa Teran
- Ian Gregory
- Karen Leach
- Barbara Panvel
- Matt Scott
- Philip Burrows
- Jessica Baily
- Aldo Mussi
- C.Mackenzie
- Maria Nash
- jocelyn chaplin
- Stephen Gwynne
- Steven Bloomer
- Michael Edwards
- Alexander Dolphin
- Ali Abbas
- yodet gherez
- Jeremy Birch
- Joe Peacock
- Richard Dikstra
- richard harborne
- Joe Hickey
- Benjamin Mabbett
- Anne Gray
- Percy Kelland
- James Sadri
- Derek Wall
- Tricia Webb
- prasanth
- Helena Kotkowska
- Sofia Roupakia
- Ben Bradley
- carol grayson
- Stuart Jeffery
- Anne Gray
- Dr Kaihsu Tai
- Richard Lawson
- Nigel Paddon
- David Walker
- Alice Martin
- David Forsythe
- Brett Pearson
- Peter Howe
- Charles Fenn
- Andy House
- Frank HUtton
- David John Taffs
