[Olog-hai]

I wonder if this new tactic by the EU will make the liberals and the current administration label any new taxes (including this Tobin tax) "Robin Hood taxes"? Robin Hood wasn't a tax collector; Prince John was, and all of these politicians are in the place of Prince John . . . and as yet another reminder, this "financial transaction tax" is specifically designed to decimate the City of London.

[headstamp 2]

What do these countries expect when they cede their sovereignty to a bunch faceless unelected bureaucrats?

[Tzimisce]

Robin Hood fought against high taxes.....

[Secret Agent Man]

Every problem in the world can be fixed if we just keep taxing the rich.

And redefining “rich” downward.

And then keep taxing more.

And then when people have no money left, we can tax them for failing to stay rich, in order to evade the rich taxes.

Just keep taxing people more and more and more. They can do with less (why government can’t is still a mystery). Eventually all our problems will be fixed.

[Secret Agent Man]

This co-opting of Robin Hood somehow approving of higher taxation is exactly the same type of co-opting the left is doing with Trayvor Martin. In both cases the opposite facts are true. Robin Hood was robbing the government of excessive taxes taken and giving them back to the people. Trayvor Martin was beating the crap out of Zimmerman on the ground underneath him and Zimmerman was lucky enough to get a shot off and save his own life. Martin’s skittles and ice tea be damned.

[hosepipe]

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

[katana]

You're right, of course. The rich targets of Robin Hood and his band of Saxons were the tax collectors for King John. He was giving back to the poor peasants what had been stolen from them by the Normans. Leave it to a Belgian (or a pack of Chicago thugs) to so utterly f*** up the meaning of an Anglo Saxon legend.