Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

We must short circuit that situation and get control of those resources. That means tackling the wealth through corporation tax, taxes on financial transactions and taxing the obscene wealth of a tiny minority who control disproportionate amounts of wealth and reinvesting it in society and in the economy. In contrast to that - a genuinely alternative approach to organising our economy - our Government, along with Mrs. Angela Merkel, cling on the dogma and doctrine of austerity which has failed miserably for the past four years.

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