A tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad.
This tax on finance institutions - not on you or I - has the power to raise hundreds of billions every year. It could give a vital boost to health care, our schools as well as tackling poverty and climate change around the world.
Not complicated. Just brilliant.
I am really not sure if you actually get it! Sure, tax the rich for the poor ok, that is great from an altruistic sense. However I assume you realise that the 'taxed' just raise their charges so that the tax is covered, so in other words they move the tax burden from themselves, to the customers, so in effect it is just another tax we all have to bear. Before you all howl me down with "its not on personal banking" the same applies, the businesses incur costs and they are passed down the line.
Great idea. Also good to see public figures like Tim Costello & Peter Singer come out in full support of it. You're obviously going to get the greedy lil pigs whining that "boohoo *sob* we're already being taxed on the billions we make *wahwah*" but considering that it's their kind that caused the global economic meld-down w/ their greedy crap, ppl are taking less & less notice of them.
The MOLOTOV might even do a song about it. ;)
cheers & keep kickin
Ohhh, government collect taxes, thanks for that, I was wondering where a third of my income was going, is this a satire vacuum? I haven't missed a thing, the idea of the Robin Hood Tax, while nobel, will drown in it's own naivety.
@danielt7596, the government collects and spends taxes so how can the government tax itself?
@danielt7596, the government collects and spends taxes so how can the government tax itself?
danielt7596, governments collect taxes. And banks are taxed the same rate as any other business. That's not the point. You have obviously missed it altogether.
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