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Old 03-03-2010, 07:50 PM   #19
sjkted
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Default Re: Robin Hood tax for banks.

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Originally Posted by Steven View Post
This looks like the Tobin tax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax

The Tobin tax goes further by taxing all financial transaction of 1%...

Why don't we limit profits on loan as well by the way...

Anyway, many solutions exist in transforming financial transaction to a more ethical way.

http://projectavalon.net/forum/showp...8&postcount=20

Great idea!

Namaste, Steven
Yes, there are many good solutions, but the question is whether we attempt to just put a bandaid on a broken, unethical system or whether we actually replace it with something that does work.

--sjkted
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