So proposals are flying around this week that the EU should introduce a “family of taxes at a European level”.

This at a time when we already have a system of taxation that is far too punishing on the British people. We have income tax, corporation tax, national insurance (employers and employees sides), VAT, various excise duties (most particularly fuel duty), inheritance (death) tax, stamp duty, council tax, road tax, and a whole host of other methods of taking people’s money away to fund endless bureaucracy and politician’s gravy trains.

As at November 2007, the average family pays a total of £32,779 in tax. And on top of that we are now faced with the prospect of European “Federal” Taxes on top of all that! A “whole family of them”! European Income Tax? European Road Tax? Its sheer lunacy! This is just another development that makes the whole European project ever scarier than it already was for the British people, but we shouldn’t be surprised really: the Lisbon Treaty was designed to turn the EU into a fully fledged country, and a country needs the power to raise its own revenue.