Quote from muller:
In Europe they're making it public and signing a Petition IN FAVOR of the Tobin Tax!!!!!
I've seen some readers here were in favor too. So I'm not posting the link.
The Robin Hood Tax? Time to dig out Atlas Shrugged:
Ragnar Danneskjold: "But Iâve chosen a special mission of my own. Iâm after a man whom I want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but until the last trace of him is wiped out of menâs minds, we will not have a decent world to live in."
Hank Rearden: "What man?"
Ragnar: "Robin Hood."
Ragnar: ". . . [Robin Hood] is not remembered as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became a symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we donât have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, had demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures â the double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and the blood of the rich â whom men have come to regard as the moral idea." ". . . Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting, Mr. Rearden. Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive."
--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I've seen this "Robin Hood" nonsense. I am quite certain it will not pass; too many powerful interests against it. However those responsible have been marked. "War on Want" was agitating for a similar tax in 2001.
Another member has made a list of all the looting charities who are lobbying for this. I have blacklisted all of them. I will not support any charity in favour of looting. If necessary I shall start my own charity in the future. Absolutely disgusting. I am sick of this resentment against achievement and incompetent politicians who have no other tools than an appeal to populist sentiment.
"⦠Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions â everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses"
--Juvenal, Satire X, 77â81
