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Ending the Green Rip-Off
Matthew Sinclair, Research Director at the TaxPayers’ Alliance said:
“Families up and down the country have been over-charged on everything from turning on the TV to flying abroad, all for the sake of ineffective green taxes and regulations. Rising electricity prices have hit the poor and elderly in particular, and their cost is expected to increase massively in the years to come, creating an affordability crisis as energy costs rise and ordinary people face intolerably large bills. At the same time, green taxes and regulations push up energy and transport costs for businesses, which makes it harder for British factories to compete and means manufacturing jobs moving abroad. Politicians need to re-think climate change policy to reduce the burden on consumers and taxpayers. People are not willing to accept an increasingly high price for draconian policies that aren’t delivering results.”
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