I have been very impressed by the ideas for a tiny tax on bank to bank transactions put forward by Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy which they are calling the ‘Robin Hood’ tax. This would generate billions of pounds a year half of which would be spent in Britain on issues such as child poverty, [...]
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