20/4/2007
Letters
Join the brown envelope protest at tax increasesOnce again this year, residents are being forced to find extra money to pay council tax increases which are higher than the rate of inflation. Countless thousands of people on low or fixed incomes, and pensioners in particular, will have to dig deep into their savings, or reduce their expenditure so that councils can pay for the services they provide.
The method of deciding how much each of us pays is based on where we live and the value of the house we live in. Rising house prices do not make you wealthier until you die or move — meanwhile the cost of gas, electricity, petrol, council tax, etc keeps on increasing.
The system is grossly unfair and, for many years, people nationwide have supported ISITFAIR, a non-political organisation calling for a change based on one’s ability to pay. This year ISITFAIR has teamed up with the Tax Payers Alliance to make a mass protest. They are asking all of us to send a photocopy of our latest council tax bill along with a short letter of protest to: Brown Envelope Day Campaign, 1 Warwick Row, London SW1E 5ER, to arrive by Tuesday May 1.
The group is aiming to exceed a million envelopes, and all of them will be delivered (with full media coverage) to Gordon Brown at H M Treasury in the following week.
Perhaps readers would want to help this campaign, because if we do nothing, nothing will be done. Remember what Gordon Giveth, Gordon Taketh Away!
L G Ireland
Chatsworth Heights
Camberley
First printed in:
Aldershot News and Mail
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