Ignoring Britain’s poor is not only morally bad, it’s economically unsound
Thursday, January 19th, 2012 by Ben Morgan Posted in Citizen's income, Inequality, Labour rights, Livelihoods, Robin Hood Tax, Unemployment, Welfare reform | No Comments »This post first appeared on Open Democracy. Chill winds are sweeping Britain’s economy with a general expectation that poverty will increase in the coming years, and that poverty reduction targets will be missed. Alarm bells rang loudly after hints that the ...
European Commission adopts Robin Hood Tax proposal
Friday, October 7th, 2011 by Robin Hood Posted in Robin Hood Tax | No Comments »This post first appeared on the Robin Hood Tax website. President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso announced on Wednesday that the European Commission has adopted the proposal for a Financial Transaction Tax. Barroso, addressing the Commission in his State of the ...
A message from Robin
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 by Robin Hood Posted in Cuts, Fairness, Robin Hood Tax, UK poverty | No Comments »The time for a Robin Hood Tax is now. With cuts hitting hard at home and abroad we must ask the government to start talking alternatives. A Robin Hood tax in the UK could raise £20 billion a year, money ...
How the Robin Hood tax could help fight climate change
Monday, May 9th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Climate Change, Robin Hood Tax, UKPP news | No Comments »A new video from Robin Hood Tax campaign shows how the RHT could help fight climate change in the Outer Hebrides. Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, explains how the money raised from the tax could could be used ...
‘Technically feasible’ and ‘morally right’ – latest from the Robin Hood tax campaign
Thursday, April 28th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Equality, Fairness, Inequality, Robin Hood Tax, UK poverty, UKPP news, Unemployment, Welfare reform, Wellbeing | No Comments »It’s been a busy, important and successful couple of months for the Robin Hood Tax campaign. Increasingly widely recognised as an idea ‘whose time has come’ (to quote from a recent article by economist Ha-Joon Chang and researcher Duncan Green), ...
‘Is it time to squeeze the rich?’ Robin Hood on BBC Big Questions
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 by Simon Chouffot Posted in Robin Hood Tax | No Comments »Catch Sunday's broadcast of the BBC's Big Questions, with the first 20 minutes of the programme devoted to discussions of whether we should look to the rich to provide solutions to the current economic crisis, in the wake of Saturday's ...
