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It seems that “green taxes” are a money spinner:
The government is raising billions of pounds more in green taxes than it needs to remove the UK’s “carbon footprint”, a report says.
The Taxpayers’ Alliance said emissions in 2005 had done damage worth an estimated £11.7bn, but green taxes and charges in that year had made £21.9bn.
Hardly surprising. The new global warming religion was always going to be a suitable bandwagon for the corrupt, venal, avaricious politicians to jump aboard. What better way to fill the trough than to convince the taxpayers that it is all for their own good, eh?
It claimed ministers were “cynically” raising revenue rather than using the money to improve the environment.
Well, we didn’t see that one coming, did we? 
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