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The Global Taxman.(global taxation for everybody)
One small step at a time, advocates of global government are pushing schemes for global taxation as part of the plan to mold the United Nations into a world government.
So you think you pay enough taxes? That your crippling tax liabilities to local, state, and federal government can't possibly get any higher? That the voracious appetite of Leviathan can't possibly defy political gravity any more? That liberal tax-and-spend policies have finally been discredited? Guess again. There's a new frontier of creative taxation these days that has big government hucksters in a lather of anticipation: international taxation. From taxes on international currency transactions ...
- The Tobin Tax: Coping with Financial Volatility.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues Prasch, Robert E. September 1, 1998 700+ words
...central banks, including the United States Federal Reserve, to intervene...desirability and feasibility of the Tobin tax as an instrument of global...absent. Hence, they support a Tobin tax on second-best grounds...model that illustrates how a Tobin tax could lower the ...
- The Tobin tax lives again.
- Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt) September 14, 2009 700+ words
...came out in support of a Tobin tax -- a global tax on financial...policymaker from the United States or the UK, the world...it. The beauty of a Tobin tax is that it would discourage...longer term. Nor would a Tobin tax stand in the way of financial...
- The Tobin tax and exchange rate stability.
- Magazine article from: Finance & Development Spahn, Paul Bernd June 1, 1996 700+ words
...rekindled interest in the so-called Tobin tax on international financial transactions...transaction tax. The primary aim of the Tobin tax, first proposed in 1972 by Professor...markets and foreign exchange markets, the Tobin tax would, in theory, discourage speculation...
- Floating the Tobin tax. (foreign exchange transactions)(Economics Focus)(Column)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 13, 1996 700+ words
...stone-like properties, however, the Tobin tax has proved remarkably buoyant. The main...is hardly surprising, then, that the Tobin tax should bob up again: in a new collection...the proposal is twofold. Fans of the Tobin tax argue that foreign-exchange markets...
- Why a two-tier Tobin tax won't work. (response to article by Paul Bernd Spahn...
- Magazine article from: Finance & Development Stotsky, Janet G. June 1, 1996 700+ words
...attractive in some ways, a two-tier Tobin tax would not solve this problem and would...Spahn offers a creative extension on the Tobin tax idea. His proposed two-tier tax is designed to deal with a major problem of a Tobin tax, namely, if imposed at a high rate...
- In search of a (leading) role; France and globalisation.(attitude of French...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 8, 2001 700+ words
...European partners to discuss adopting a "Tobin tax", it looked like a spot of straightforward...president, was quoted as pooh-poohing the Tobin tax. In August last year he sent a report...Fabius has not changed his view of the Tobin tax. Instead he has sought to broaden the...
- Roasting an old chestnut; The Tobin tax.(Unexpected support for a tax on...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 8, 2001 700+ words
...backing a Belgian plan to discuss the "Tobin tax" at this month's meeting of EU finance...foreign-exchange transaction. Some Tobin tax supporters want to keep the rate flexible...union stayed on course, however, the Tobin tax faded from the European agenda--until...
- TAXATION : MEPS CALL FOR TOBIN TAX' DEBATE AT G20.
- Newspaper article from: European Report September 17, 2009 700+ words
...of the charge - otherwise known as a Tobin tax' (see box) - as a way of stopping...Cecilia Malmstrom told deputies, "A Tobin tax will only be worthwhile if we can implement...Parliament last looked into the issue of a Tobin tax in 1999, when the institution's Directorate...
