New Robin Hood Tax Introduced In
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A half-percent tax on all financial transactions makes it to Congress
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*Banksters may finally be forced to pony up their fair share in taxes after
collapsing the global economy a few years back...at least in Europe
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s.* The European Union is set to approve plans for a .1% financial
transaction tax on banksters in ten different Eurozone nations. That
miniscule tax will apply to all financial market transactions and is
expected to raise billions of dollars in revenue. Here in the United
States, efforts have been made to create our own financial transaction tax
to raise revenue as well, as curb speculation and dangerous high frequency
trading on Wall Street. But since Republicans in key financial oversight
committees in the House of Representatives are completely bought by Wall
Street, such a tax can't gain any traction.
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