Posted on 11/07/2010 9:43:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Some 183 organisations from 42 countries have come together to issue a plea to world leaders to impose a tax on financial transactions to help meet the costs of the economic crisis.
The group is the largest coalition yet to demand that a tax is levied on international financial transactions.
Members include Britain's Robin Hood Tax campaign, supported by the TUC, Friends of the Earth and ActionAid.
Their plea comes ahead of the summit of leaders of G20 economic powers in the South Korean capital Seoul on November 11-12.
The issue of measures needed to stabilise the world economy and boost the global recovery are set to be discussed.
Today's letter is addressed to G20 leaders including Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama, and is signed by development, health, education and environmental charities and unions from 16 of the G20 countries.
They argue that a financial tax would help meet the costs "of the global financial and economic crisis, including reducing the unacceptably high rate of job loss, and achieve key development, health, education and climate change objectives in developing countries".
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "Governments around the world are embarking on a sweeping programme of austerity measures that will lead to huge job losses and cuts in services that the most vulnerable in society rely upon....
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One of my pet peeves is the misguided belief that Robin Hood took from the rich and gave to the poor when the truth is that the people were poor because a greedy government had taxed them into poverty.
WHEN is the revolution? WHEN are people going to stand up and SAY NO and MEAN IT. Not just elect a couple of new people?
The US out of the UN. Noted that the POS in the Whine House when he was a senator wanted a Global Intiative whereby the american people would pay a tax that would redistribute wealth to the poor around the world. NO Global Initiative. Look at Rick Warren and Saddleback Community Church he is a part of the UN’;s Global Peace Plan and the Global Initiative is just a part of it. This is the idea to develop a One World Government.
G20 Leaders Urged To Back ‘Robin Hood’ Tax is simply translated into:
Spreading more of America’s wealth will make the world a better place.
Obama must have gotten a tingle down his leg when the Robin Hood Tax was announced.
precisley Alinsky at work .....
It's worse than that. Once the get that, they can up the tax to high levels so that no-one can vote with their feet. Then, lib/socialist countries can tax as much as they like and no-one can escape to low tax countries.
Robin Hood stole from the Government and gave to the poor. (After expenses of course.)
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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There is absolutely no end to ‘good ideas’ on how to spend OTHER PEOPLE’S Money! (Remember Baron Thatcher’s dictum on Socialism!)
The socialists realize that socialism is dead unless it can suck the blood of the remaining productive economies.
The head of Action Aid was the former head of OXFAM Can.
Check out what they have to say about the G20:
http://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/g8g20-invest-future-now
Hitler would agree.
Except, Robin Hood is a fictional character ... ok, so there are a few possible historical truths in the myths somewhere, but I wouldn’t get too hung up on it.
wow.
They say they want to “stabalize” and help the economy “recover” and to do this they need a MASSIVE UN TAX.
lol.
There is no authority for this and it is unconstitutional too.
In principle its a good idea
In principle it is a plot straight from Hell. Look at the character and track records of those who propose it. Reprobates all.
However, would the government repeal the tax as soon as the deficit was paid before revising the monetary system to go back on a new gold standard?
I am sure you can point to the many times in history when tyrants voluntarily entered into sound fiscal policy.
Riddle me this, if confiscation of money from the Producers to the Administrators is such a great idea that it will pull everyone up and make everyone prosperous, why on earth would anyone want to return to a Free Market economy where money flows to its most efficient use?
Clearly an army of corrupt bastards making every macro market decision is far superior than the trillions of micro decisions made at the ground level.
I'm assuming that you are government school educated, explains your faith in the inherent honesty, selfless benevolence and omniscience of our Betters despite all of the empirical evidence to the contrary
No, it’s not a good idea in any way, shape, or form. The best solution for developing the third world (or even the second) is NOT to hand over money, but to get our own house in order so that our economic growth will be the tide that raises and other ships in the water. This is nothing more than a continuation of the liberal calls (climate change? oh, please) to pay those who can’t and won’t — and as we see, the only true beneficiaries are those in power: NOT those actually in need.
This needs to echo throughout the chambers of Congress day in and day out.
...and stole from the crown, not the people.
The creation of the federal income tax is what caused the US federal government to grow to its current size.
If the UN gets an independent source of income, expect the next stage to be the UN getting its own armed forces to impose its will.
He stole from the government and gave the money back to the impoverished taxpayers.
The governments are getting richer while the taxpayers are getting poorer.
(Free the tax slaves.)
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