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CROSSRAIL - TAX THEFT ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE

thereelstory | 15.12.2004 23:25 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Migration | London

Crossrail, a rail line to benefit rich City workers get between the City of London and Canary Wharf and Heathrow, is set to cost London taxpayers over £15bn at 2002 prices. The expensive scheme is backed by the Government privatisation architect Adrian Montague, who has cost the taxpayers billions while accumulating mass bonuses and lining the pockets of law firms, banks, accountancy and development companies.
Here's the deal, we do not know how much it will cost, just start the scheme up, oh dear it costs much more than we thought, guess what we gave taxpayers a stake in this for 30 years, to keep it going we need your money for the next 30 years. thank you for being so co-operative each and everytime we do this to you.

Crossrail is a highly expensive railway line that will not even be able to pay its operational costs. It will also land grab land from London's poor east end communities to command them as its own to develop them for large profits pocketed by unscrupulous criminal developers - all of this will be to fund an unnecessary line that will benefit the City and allow it to make artificial claims about the need for office space - falling year on year. Oh the sad games unimaginative City folk play but why at the expense of the imaginative, creative and interesting people that don't?

STOP THE global machine of corruption, greed and exploitation using its own language

NO TO SUBSIDING FAILING COMPANIES
THE PEOPLE SAY COMPETE OR DIE

WE DO NOT RECOGNISE THE RIGHTS OF COMPANIES

WE DEMAND STOP TAXING THE POOR TO PAY FOR THE RICH

FIGHTING BACK

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