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Time to consider global tax'
News 24/AP ^
| 11/7/09
| staff
Posted on 11/07/2009 3:59:23 PM PST by pissant
Scotland - Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis, and urged world finance officials meeting on Saturday in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate change.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told finance ministers from the Group of 20 rich and developing countries it was time to consider a global financial levy, such as a tax on transactions
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: communists; obama
What a great idea
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posted on
11/07/2009 3:59:24 PM PST
by
pissant
To: pissant
they can call for it all they want but if they do it you can kick the doomsday clock ahead about 12 hours.
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:03:23 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(the obama doctrine: "let's not rush to any conclusions...")
To: pissant
The US is tens of trillions in debt, how are we a rich country?
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:03:55 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: pissant
Not just no, but HELL NO!
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:07:18 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: pissant
Financial trading would come to a complete halt.
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:07:38 PM PST
by
sourcery
(RINOs are Whigs with no hair...)
To: GeronL
The US is tens of trillions in debt, how are we a rich country?The country may be broke, but some of the citizens aren't completely squeezed dry.
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:08:00 PM PST
by
umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: the invisib1e hand
That would put it right over into tomorrow, wouldn’t it?
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:11:15 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: pissant
After they rob everybody on the planet, then what? What's the plan then? Showers with no water and ovens that bake no bread? The craziness that's coming out of the woodwork these days is alarming - it's like we're about to have a replay of the darkest side of the twentieth century.
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:19:22 PM PST
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: pissant
Don’t the Brits remember the last time they tried to foist taxation without representation on us?
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:19:49 PM PST
by
kcar
To: kcar
Don’t the Brits remember the last time they tried to foist taxation without representation on us? Timing is everything. Never waste a crisis. Etc. ad infinitum. ad nauseum.
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:28:15 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(the obama doctrine: "let's not rush to any conclusions...")
To: umgud
global looting and national looting at the same time.
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:32:43 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: pissant
may be good news:
Gordon Brown: worldwide snub over tax plans"Gordon Brown is facing international embarrassment after leading nations slapped down his proposal for a tax on financial transactions to raise hundreds of billions of pounds."
... within hours of his speech, both the US and Canada rejected the plan. Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, said: "That's not something that we're prepared to support."
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posted on
11/07/2009 5:22:00 PM PST
by
opentalk
To: pissant; markomalley; scripter; proud_yank; grey_whiskers; FrPR; enough_idiocy; Desdemona; ...
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posted on
11/07/2009 6:35:43 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Limit all U.S. politicians to two terms: One in office and one in prison!)
To: pissant
When I pay my light or gas bill, is that not a finacial transaction!
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posted on
11/07/2009 7:14:15 PM PST
by
ALinArleta
(One shot! One kill!)
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