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To: craig crawford who wrote (134371)	11/7/2001 10:30:10 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

"Robin Hood Tax" eh? Now there's a brilliant idea. Even more bizarre when you highlight slightly different parts: Critics of the tax say it would strengthen the dominance of the United States dollar and require complex and costly multilateral as well as national controls. The report--which proposes setting up a Global Development Commission to oversee collection and distribution of the tax--is released amid signs of a new wave of interest in the tax at government level. Over 700 parliamentarians from around the world have signed up to a petition for the tax and aim to put pressure on the U.S. Congress to debate the issue. Campaigners will be raising the issue at the WTO's ministerial meeting which opens in Doha Friday, saying that such a tax would not only help put United Nations (news - web sites) development targets back on track, it would also help keep a check on the activities of transnational corporations. Hmm. One might think you a globalist for opposing it. Or favoring it. Depends, I guess, on whether you are a global-capitalist or a global-socialist. Issues like this must confuse the hell out of the protest-as-a-hobby crowd.