The Robin Hood Tax campaign is a great initiative to attract attention to the mortal embrace between bankers and politicians and the imbalance between excessive funds in the financial industry, compared with chronically dwindling public funds. The organisers are currently collecting images for the next public action. Here‘s the one for the Forum for Stable [...]
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I am clearly still not sufficiently cynical: as one of the founding organisations of the Robin Hood Tax I’ve done my best to promote it and am watching the Yes / No vote on their site. Hence I was amazed to see the increase of NOs and appreciated the way that those at the helm [...]
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The Robin Hood Tax is the UK version of the Tobin Tax which was at the beginning of ATTAC in France ten years ago. As an anti-poverty campaign, it is more pragmatic than the economic theories of Tobin Tax definitions or the political demands of the Attac network. Supported by a coalition of 48 organisations, [...]
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