The Robin Hood Tax?

[Teatownclown]

OWS Protesters May Demand "Robin Hood" Tax
The magazine that sparked the protests calls for a 1-percent levy on financial transactions.
By Will Oremus | Posted Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, at 5:01 PM ET

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/10/19/robin_hood_tax_adbusters_proposes_demand_for_ows_march_on_oct_29.html

"On October 29, on the eve of the G20 Leaders Summit in France, let's the people of the world rise up and demand that our G20 leaders immediately impose a 1% #ROBINHOOD tax on all financial transactions and currency trades. Let's send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3-trillion easy money that's sloshing around the global casino each day – enough cash to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world. "

The Teahadists never came up with any logical ideas....

[Red Arrow]

I can see a fee to cover the cost of the tax on the horizon.

[Gaspar]

OWS is the return on our investment in education. 

Sad!

[Hoss]

OWS is the return on our investment in education. 

Sad!

Really?  People are using their 1st amendment right to peacefully assemble (for the most part) and you call it sad?

Even I didn't call it that when it was the TP was doing it.  I question their motives and beliefs, but would never call it sad.  I did however question a member during one of their gatherings brandishing a weapon near the White House.

How predictable coming from you.  That's what is truly sad.

[Gaspar]

Really?  People are using their 1st amendment right to peacefully assemble (for the most part) and you call it sad?

Even I didn't call it that when it was the TP was doing it.  I question their motives and beliefs, but would never call it sad.  I did however question a member during one of their gatherings brandishing a weapon near the White House.

How predictable coming from you.  That's what is truly sad.

No, I love the fact that they are protesting.  I support that 100%.  I am sad that they are unable to articulate or understand why they are protesting.

[heironymouspasparagus]

No, I love the fact that they are protesting.  I support that 100%.  I am sad that they are unable to articulate or understand why they are protesting.

What is even sadder is the fact that the tea baggers can only articulate the lies they have caught on Fox for lo these many years.  Things like smaller government is good (because it turns the corporations loose to rape and pillage,... er, uh... to create jobs), lower taxes will always fix every problem (like our roads and bridges and water/sewer systems...), and the we can continue to go in debt spending trillions for the wrong war and more trillions to bail out insurance/banks with no adverse effects to the economy.

THAT is truly sad!

[we vs us]

No, I love the fact that they are protesting.  I support that 100%.  I am sad that they are unable to articulate or understand why they are protesting.

Once again.  Attributing the worst motives to people you disagree with. 

I can't fathom why even the relative morons in the MSM are able to understand the core issues that the Occupy movement is addressing and you can't (or won't).  But really, if you want to see it as a nationwide tantrum, you do so to your detriment.  Just like the Tea Party, OWS in some form is here to stay, and is going to affecting electoral politics from here on out.  I wasn't sure at first, but I think it's now pretty clear that it's not going away any time soon. 

[heironymouspasparagus]

Once again.  Attributing the worst motives to people you disagree with. 

I can't fathom why even the relative morons in the MSM are able to understand the core issues that the Occupy movement is addressing and you can't (or won't).  But really, if you want to see it as a nationwide tantrum, you do so to your detriment.  Just like the Tea Party, OWS in some form is here to stay, and is going to affecting electoral politics from here on out.  I wasn't sure at first, but I think it's now pretty clear that it's not going away any time soon. 

Hopefully it translates into more people voting.

[we vs us]

In re: Robin Hood Tax: it's not clear what a "financial transaction" is.  Currency trades I understand but a financial transaction could be anything from a debit card swipe to a savings account transfer or 1000 security trades timed to the microsecond by algorithm.  I'm all for adding a little more disincentive to some of the more exotic financial instruments out there, but not to the basic stuff that nontrading Americans need on a day to day basis.

[we vs us]

Hopefully it translates into more people voting.

Agreed, and I think it will.

[Teatownclown]

Hopefully it translates into more people voting.

Not those being disenfranchised by the GOP: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/19/347880/south-carolina-voter-id-law-violates-voting-rights-act/

"Democrats say it's no coincidence that Republicans renewed their disenfranchisement efforts after Barack Obama was elected president. "In 2008, we had too many black folk, too many brown folk, too many poor folk voting," said South Carolina state Representative David J. Mack III. "They (Republicans) can't have that in 2012."

[nathanm]

No, I love the fact that they are protesting.  I support that 100%.  I am sad that they are unable to articulate or understand why they are protesting.

In other words, you're "sad" that the tools of the very people they are protesting claim not to get it.

I very much despise the style of this video, but its content summarizes the issue quite well:

Whether you consider it a compelling narrative or not, isn't terribly important. Other people clearly do.

[AquaMan]

Hopefully it translates into more people voting.

Not likely. These are students, elderly, unsophisticates, free spirits. They probably don't have DL's, Visas or other forms of ID that authorities are increasingly requiring at the insistence of conservatives who are sure the whole country is cheating them out of total, unquestioning, domination. Talk about sad. You don't drive? You don't get to vote. You don't travel? No vote. You don't know how to get an ID or are suspect of your government's motives in requiring one? NO VOTE FOR YOU!

[Red Arrow]

You don't drive? You don't get to vote.

Does Oklahoma not still have the  non-driver's driver's licence for ID purposes?

[Townsend]

Does Oklahoma not still have the  non-driver's driver's licence for ID purposes?

Aside from having to pay for those ID's it doesn't matter here.  We're not exactly a swing state.