Blog: Policy
In a major win for nations committed to blunting austerity and to raising revenue, 11 European nations – two more than the nine minimum needed to form an official European Union agreement – agreed in principle today to press for enactment of a sales tax on financial speculation. An EU parliamentary vote is forthcoming on the measure many see as a critical breakthrough in turning around ailing economies and getting resources to communities in...
“Supporting the RHT is a 'no brainer,’” said Rep. Danny Davis, as he donned a Robin Hood hat.
Main Street is still waiting to be paid back. That was the message delivered on October 2 to Congressional districts up and down California, in Massachusetts, New York City, throughout Metro Chicago, in Las Vegas, San Antonio and in Burnsville, Minnesota, too.
“The Inclusive Prosperity Act,...
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On Tuesday, October 2, the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) -- under which hundreds of billions of tax dollars were handed over to financial institutions deemed “too big to fail”-- the Robin Hood Tax Campaign and its allies in labor, health, religious and consumer organizations, will visit Congressional field offices in seven states to...
By Stephany Griffith-Jones of Columbia University and Avinash Persaud, Chairman of Intelligence Capital. This blog looks at progress in Europe.
Far from sending taxpayers rushing for the exit, this tax gets more foreigners to pay it than any other.
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is...
