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27 August 2008
Responding to the Taxpayer's Alliance's ‘The Burden of Green Taxes,' Dave Timms, Friends of the Earth's New Economics Campaigner said:
"The Taxpayers' Alliance figures are seriously flawed because they are based on a discredited approach to calculating the cost of climate change - and in fact green taxes have fallen as a proportion of overall taxes since Labour came to power."
"Green taxes are one of the key policies needed to prevent dangerous climate change that would cost the UK cost billions of pounds and ruin lives."
"The Government has fuelled public scepticism by failing to use tax breaks and public spending to make it cheaper and easier to go green. If green taxes are to work the Government must also invest in greener alternatives such as public transport."
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