Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The specific pledges Oxfam asked people at that conference to consider were not to dodge their taxes, not to use their economic wealth to seek political favour, which is lobbying governments to implement their policies in privatising essential services such as water, waste and other utilities, to make public all their investments and companies, to support progressive taxation on wealth and income, such as wealth taxes and corporation taxes, to challenge governments to use their tax revenues to provide universal health care, education and social protection, which has been decimated in many countries, and to pay a living wage to workers in companies they own or control. This is about transparency, accountability and fairness but that was not dealt with, nor was it ever going to be dealt with, at that conference.

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