Wednesday 19 December 2007

Experience of Poverty

 It really is a little disappointing that I must say the vast majority of my colleagues in the States of Jersey who have such a breadth of knowledge and experience and business acumen, have very, very little experience on a personal level of what it is like to try to retain one's pride in a very costly community.  Broadening the tax base and implementing support systems and broadening the welfare mechanisms in our society and taxing food is going to make retaining one's pride in this community a little more challenging for those people that attempt to on a daily basis.  It is unless you have lived a life of absolute getting-by that you will understand this. 
 
Deputy P.V.F. Le Claire:
 
 

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