Quote from tortoise:
Just posted Bill Nighy-from-Cannes double feature at:
http://financialtransactiontaxes.com/Financial-Transaction-Tax-FTT-News.html
It is quite an entertaining site already, but I agree with others that you are giving Bill Nighy too much free publicity and need to clarify the message to the reader.
The problem is, actors such as Nighy are trained to tell lies on a daily basis without batting an eyelid, they've always got a soundbite ready if they're are losing a debate, or they can tell a joke to turn the listener to their side. Actually, I quite enjoy watching Bill Nighy as an actor, the same for Ewan McGregor, the problem is not that they are bad people (or high on drugs), the problem is that they are giving us poor economic advice. Sarkozy, Van Rumpuy, Barroso and Merkel are better targets IMHO because it is harder to warm to such people.
tom makes some great points. Most of us here are pro market, right leaning or libertarian types, but these are not the people who we should be trying to win over. It is true that Sweden and Canada are getting a lot of plaudits right now for their "mixed" economic model.
Left leaning Sweden was "ahead of its time" when they tried it, so by presenting the key details of their negative experience you are giving the left a reason to backtrack and say, "I'm still against unbridled free market capitalism, FTT sounds good in theory, but in practice it would probably be a disaster and hurt pensioners and the ordinary saver, not the banks...perhaps I should change my mind.."
We need to win over the centre and centre-left ground politically by showing that it hurts ordinary hard working families, and crucially dispel the falsehood that banks will be adversely effected.