{"id":10444,"date":"2011-06-12T16:33:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2011-06-12T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:33:33","slug":"tel-le-sueur-tel-le-sueur-riding-through-the-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/12\/tel-le-sueur-tel-le-sueur-riding-through-the-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tel Le Sueur, Tel Le Sueur, riding through the glen&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<em>..gives to the rich, robs from the poor<br \/>\nTel Le Sueur, Tel Le Sueur, Tel Le Sueur!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Robin Hood (in reverse) strikes Jersey\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>again<\/strong><\/span>. A fortnight after the Jersey\u00a0government\u00a0put GST (the Jersey form of VAT) up to 5%, hitting the poorest, the Jersey Council of Ministers have decided not to increase social security charges for those earning more than \u00a344232 per annum. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisjersey.com\/2011\/06\/11\/social-security-hike-for-high-earners-dropped\/\" target=\"_blank\">The JEP report starts off with the statement<\/a> that this is because \"the money is no longer needed\"!!!\u00a0Presumably\u00a0that's\u00a0because\u00a0the poor have already paid<\/p>\n<p>This in the same week that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisjersey.com\/2011\/06\/11\/tax-move-to-entice-the-super-rich\/\" target=\"_blank\">the rate of taxation on the very wealthy<\/a> (the 120-odd people in residential category 1.1.k) has been reduced to - get this - 1%.<\/p>\n<p>And the people of this island just shrug and go on voting for the accountants. How long O God, how long??<\/p>\n<p><em>Indeed!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PS This is almost exactly an email sent to me by a Jersey resident whose name I will not publish for his \/ her own security's sake<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For those not aware Terry Le Sueur is First\u00a0Minister\u00a0of Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;gives to the rich, robs from the poor Tel Le Sueur, Tel Le Sueur, Tel Le Sueur! Robin Hood (in reverse) strikes Jersey\u00a0again. A fortnight<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/12\/tel-le-sueur-tel-le-sueur-riding-through-the-glen\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}