08-14-2019, 07:26 PM
One of the Communist Party MPs, Leonel Fournier, addresses the chamber.
Comrade... Madam Speaker, (laughs) if I may.
What we're seeing here on display today is a faux debate. This is window dressing. The rug that covers the stain.
When this country was founded, we all had a collective dream, and that was to build a nation worthy of becoming the home to many of Micras' destitute and nationless. Our purpose and our values lie in that dream. A dream of peace. A dream of fairness. We dreamt of getting a fair shake. Building institutions that would outlast us. A country that we could call home.
This debate and this very bill attack the heart of that dream.
This is the continued pettiness of the bourgeois hijack of our country. The petty bourgeoisie opposes every kind of state interference, accounting, and control, and that's exactly what we need more of to steer the ship towards that dream we once held.
What this bill will do is deepen the hold that a million tentacles of this petty-bourgeois octopus now has that encircle the workers and steal that dream. The taxing rates here are a joke. The rich should be paying a lot more - a lot more.
Raise new revenues by imposing 70% tax rate on incomes over 1 million ecus.
Impose a financial transaction tax on stock market speculation.
That's how we'll fund the defense of our country.
But we can't do this on the backs of the working class. We already suffer too much, while many profit off of getting every drop of oil they can from our lands, while many toil to make others richer and richer. I refuse to let this be our fate.
I yield.
Comrade... Madam Speaker, (laughs) if I may.
What we're seeing here on display today is a faux debate. This is window dressing. The rug that covers the stain.
When this country was founded, we all had a collective dream, and that was to build a nation worthy of becoming the home to many of Micras' destitute and nationless. Our purpose and our values lie in that dream. A dream of peace. A dream of fairness. We dreamt of getting a fair shake. Building institutions that would outlast us. A country that we could call home.
This debate and this very bill attack the heart of that dream.
This is the continued pettiness of the bourgeois hijack of our country. The petty bourgeoisie opposes every kind of state interference, accounting, and control, and that's exactly what we need more of to steer the ship towards that dream we once held.
What this bill will do is deepen the hold that a million tentacles of this petty-bourgeois octopus now has that encircle the workers and steal that dream. The taxing rates here are a joke. The rich should be paying a lot more - a lot more.
Raise new revenues by imposing 70% tax rate on incomes over 1 million ecus.
Impose a financial transaction tax on stock market speculation.
That's how we'll fund the defense of our country.
But we can't do this on the backs of the working class. We already suffer too much, while many profit off of getting every drop of oil they can from our lands, while many toil to make others richer and richer. I refuse to let this be our fate.
I yield.