Stanton 150, pointe 2,5ET sur Shure, Elberg MD12 : courbe Westrex, Cedar duo declickle
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12-05-2025
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Texte du contenu ci-joint. The Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith (1852–1928), homme d'État britannique, membre du Parti libéral et Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni de 1908 à 1916. Le People's Budget (Budget du peuple en français) de 1909 est un ensemble de lois britanniques votées sous son mandat. Elles introduisent notamment de nouveaux prélèvements obligatoires visant les plus riches afin de financer les premiers éléments de ce qui deviendra la Sécurité sociale : assurance contre la maladie, assurance contre le chômage, retraite des vieux travailleurs. Les plus ardents défenseurs de cette loi de finances sont Lloyd George, chancelier de l’Échiquier, et Winston Churchill, son fidèle adjoint. La Budget League était un groupe de pression britannique formé en 1909 par Winston Churchill pour faire campagne publiquement en faveur du budget populaire de David Lloyd George en réaction aux activités de la Budget Protest League de Walter Long. Ce budget divisa le pays et suscita des débats houleux tout au long de l'été 1909. Voté par la Chambre des communes en 1909, il est bloqué par la Chambre des lords durant un an, puis prend valeur de loi en avril 1910.
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Herbert Henry Asquith - Speech on the budget - made for The Budget League - 1909
I have gladly accepted the invitation to speak to you in this unusual manner at a time when I am anxious that my word should reach as many of my fellow countrymen as possible. We are in the budget of this year appealing to the patriotism and sense of justice of our countrymen to meet our national necessities. These necessities are not due to financial extravagance. For the liberal government has, in the last four years, reduced the national indebtedness by over 40 million, resolutely opposed the creation of new debt and relieved in conformity with its principles and its pledges, taxation on the requisites of life. Our new liabilities arise from the duty of providing adequately for the defense of the empire, from the grant of pension long deserved and long deferred to the ages, and from our determination to supplement and extend this first installment in a large policy of social reform. If these exigencies are to be faced with courage and success, all classes in the community must submit each to its own share in new burdens of taxation. It is never pleasant to pay taxes. The taxpayer in this instance can derive comfort, both from the justice of the new imposition and from the merits of the object for which they are required.
I claim for the budget that it does not add a penny to the cost of the necessaries of life, that it asks all to contribute to the nation's needs, that it asks most from those who are most able and least from those who are least able to pay, and that it provides an expanding revenue to meet expanding liabilities. I am confident that the people will not grudge money spent on national defense and social development, and that they will repudiate as emphatically as they did three years ago, the only alternative policy which would raise the price of food, restrict our open market, and bring back the evils and injustices of protection. H. H. Asquith.
We are lucky.
