EUSSR to implement bank / financial transactions tax on UK?! (03Sept10)

[verydarkmaster]

Didn't the SR in USSR stand for Socialist Republic? You can call EU a whole lot of things but surely not Socialist.

[SirOneoneselfandone]

"this tax could do wonders in this age of austerity"?????????????

[godlikeangel]

this would just send money and business out of Britain

[AnnoyedDragon]

Getting £115 billion out of the UK economy every year isn't enough for the EU? They have to suckle at our financial sector as well?

[briggfoot]

Disgusting Communist inspired idea. No wonder they're demonizing the bankers so much. I don't want our bureaucrats getting their grubby mitts on any more money that isn't theirs to squander. We are moving toward Communism!?!

[Ckererec]

wait wait.... to tackle banksters... they tax the people's transactions?

That is not any logic I have heard of, surely they'd tax their bonuses and salaries more, if they truly wanted to punish banks, but oh wait, it's really just another cash grabbing exercise, as all the governments across the world are dead broke.

[anon2999]

This is not a tax on the banks and traders, this is a tax on the people like ALL taxes.

[PHONEYPOLITICS]

why not tax the banks and pay off the fucking deficit SHAM - robbing peter to pay paul.

[dikkydoo1]

dont these thick fucks get it, you need to STOP feeding the beast/government not find new ways to feed it! no amount of money will ever be enough for a government - governments wil expand until every last penny has gone!

[MinutemanUK]

@dikkydoo1

don't these thick fucks get it,

dikkydoo1 it appears not :)