Friday, January 22, 2021
  • Contact
  • Sitemap
Robin Hood Tax USA
A Tax For The People
  • Why We Need Robin
  • Who’s Behind It
    • Endorsing Organizations
    • RHT Around The World
  • How It Works
    • The Big Idea
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Policy Library
  • Get Involved
  • Blog
No Result
View All Result
  • Why We Need Robin
  • Who’s Behind It
    • Endorsing Organizations
    • RHT Around The World
  • How It Works
    • The Big Idea
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Policy Library
  • Get Involved
  • Blog
No Result
View All Result
Robin Hood Tax USA
No Result
View All Result

Replace Brexit bus of lies with Robin Hood tax bus and we really could save the NHS

Ros Wynne Jones, Mirror.co.uk

by rht4people
May 12, 2017
in News Article
0
Robin Hood Tax bus

Imagine a red bus taking a tour of the country. “The Robin Hood Tax could raise £90million a week. Let’s give it to our NHS. Let’s Take Back Control”.

It may sound familiar. But this bus is actually rooted in reality.

Economists say the Robin Hood Tax – a tiny tax on bankers – really could raise £4.7billion a year for the NHS.

“By modernising the UK’s current Robin Hood Tax on shares, the ­additional revenue could plug last year’s NHS funding gap, fix the social care crisis and hire 20,000 new teachers with money left over to build more than 70,000 affordable homes,” says David Hillman, from the Robin Hood Tax campaign.

It’s hard to imagine that this week is only the first anniversary of the Lying Bus. One year ago yesterday, the Leave Campaign set sail from the unwitting town of Truro in Cornwall in a £400,000 battle bus – actually a coach – emblazoned with lies.

“We send the EU £350million a week,” the bus shouted, in enormous letters. “Let’s fund our NHS instead. Vote Leave”. It was like a one-vehicle fake news-making machine.

It had barely left its parking bay before Vote Leave’s central claim had earned a rebuke from the UK Statistics Authority, which branded it ­“irresponsible”.

The NHS complained about Vote Leave’s use of its logo saying its “distinctive brand is rightly protected against exploitation”.

And the Department of Health declared that “the idea that Brexit will somehow ‘save’ the NHS is fanciful”.

Tory chairwoman of the Health Select Committee Dr Sarah Wollaston quit the Leave campaign immediately. “I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue,” she said.

Never mind that campaigners pointed out the bus was manufactured in Poland by a German company. Never mind that its passenger, Boris Johnson, was waving an EU-protected Cornish pasty.

None of this mattered. Brexit voters up and down the country repeatedly quoted the £350m figure as fact to me and many others during the referendum campaign. Often it was the only ‘fact’ they could recite.

Vote Leave won, and the rest is history. Nigel Farage distanced himself from the claim immediately the result of the referendum became known.

None of the architects of the Lying Bus ever faced any consequence. The pasty-eating passenger, Boris Johnson, is now actually the Foreign Secretary.

A year later, and we are in a new election cycle. Labour’s manifesto has just been leaked. It is a bold, ambitious programme that needs paying for.

Could it finally be time for a Robin Hood Tax that would modernise a 322-year-old ‘stamp duty’ on shares by removing loopholes and extending it to similar financial products like share and credit derivatives and corporate bonds?

At a fringe meeting at last year’s Labour conference, Shadow ­Chancellor John McDonnell called it “an idea that’s time may have come”.

The power of the Vote Leave bus’s slogan came from a known fact – that the NHS cannot go on as it is. Britain needs a radical solution. But unlike other countries, we have reached for the wrong one.

Since Brexit, a group of powerful, smart countries have been getting much more serious about a Robin Hood Tax.

In recent months, core details of what such a tax could look like have been agreed by Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Slovenia and Slovakia.

The EU Tax Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has hailed the landmark decision as “very important progress”.

One reason countries like the idea of transaction taxes is that they are likely to help reduce the number of the riskiest trades, the type of ‘casino banking’ which helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis. They are also one of the cheapest taxes to collect.

But, just as importantly, a Robin Hood Tax could radically change a Britain bankrupted by the banks, and morally bankrupted by years of austerity, providing desperately needed cash for schools, hospitals, policing, children and social care.

Just 10 days of a financial transaction tax could provide an extra 3,500 hospital beds each year – enough to prevent the annual winter bed crisis.

Four months of the Robin Hood Tax could train enough nurses to fill every NHS vacancy.

Seven more weeks of the tax could solve the adult social care crisis for this year.

If Labour gets aboard the ‘Truth Bus’ when it officially launches its manifesto, it will be a fitting way to mark the anniversary of UK politics’ most far-reaching lie.

Original Post: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/replace-brexit-bus-lies-robin-10405539

Tags: BrexitEuropeUnited Kingdom
Previous Post

Nurses Welcome Renewal of Sen. Sanders’ Bills to Heal America and Provide College for All

Next Post

From Resisting Trump To What?

Next Post
Never Normal

From Resisting Trump To What?

Spread the Word!

Help spread the word about the Robin Hood Tax! Endorse the campaign and volunteer to get the word out. We will also send you updates on Robin's progress.

Endorse & Volunteer

Twitter

NationalNursesNationalNursesUnited@NationalNurses·
23 Jun 2019

“Our movement is #MedicareForAll — not watered-down, we are not accepting anything less.

This is our moment.

This is our time.

We are rising.”

Martese Chism, RN, tells @ABC News that guaranteed health care for all is a civil rights issue. #thisweek https://t.co/zCIDLFSpUX

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter75Like on Twitter126Twitter
NationalNursesNationalNursesUnited@NationalNurses·
16 Feb 2019

Get ready for the people’s #MedicareForAll movement like you’ve never seen it before!

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter67Like on Twitter129Twitter
Fightfor15LAFight for $15 LA@Fightfor15LA·
14 Jan 2019

Los Angeles is turning out in force for our students and educators. Rain can't stop us. Billionaires can't stop us. Union busters can't stop us. We'll be fighting for as long as it takes! #FightFor15 #LAUSDStrike #UTLAStrong

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter52Like on Twitter100Twitter
RashidaTlaibRashida Tlaib@RashidaTlaib·
6 Dec 2018

Gary Cohen, former CEO Goldman Sachs addressing new members of Congress today: "You guys are way over your head, you don't know how the game is played."

No Gary, YOU don't know what's coming - a revolutionary Congress that puts people over profits. https://t.co/ZLML2qzAW6

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter10194Like on Twitter44751Twitter
AOCAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC·
6 Dec 2018

Our “bipartisan” Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group. Other members have quietly expressed to me their concern that this wasn’t told to us in advance.

Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where‘s labor? Activists?Frontline community leaders?

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter15567Like on Twitter69651Twitter
NNUBonnieBonnie Castillo@NNUBonnie·
6 Dec 2018

Vet @will_c_fischer explains PRIVATIZATION:

“It's a fancy way of saying we’re taking tax dollars out of the VA & putting it into the pockets of millionaires & billionaires"

It's up to us to defend the VA, USPS & more from being sold off to the highest bidder. #ThursdayThoughts

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter116Like on Twitter174Twitter
democracynowDemocracy Now!@democracynow·
30 Nov 2018

Medicare for All: As Healthcare Costs Soar, Momentum Grows to Guarantee Healthcare for All Americans https://t.co/4KpxmRKHf7

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter41Like on Twitter63Twitter
NNUBonnieBonnie Castillo@NNUBonnie·
30 Nov 2018

✅ FACT: Americans spend the most per person on health care, twice as much as other wealthy nations.

✅ FACT: The US ranks 64th in the world in life-expectancy.

🤔 How can both be true?

We have a for-profit health care system.

🤔 The solution?

Nurses say: #MedicareForAll!

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter483Like on Twitter1170Twitter
RobinHoodTaxRobin Hood Tax@RobinHoodTax·
28 Nov 2018

“Workplace organizing helps level inequality in wages and working conditions, and women and workers of color would benefit the most from unionization.”
#WednesdayWisdom

https://t.co/KpXW8mwxYd

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter8Like on Twitter6Twitter
RobinHoodTaxRobin Hood Tax@RobinHoodTax·
27 Nov 2018

Corporations don’t need tax breaks.
👉🏼14,700 jobs are being cut by General Motors despite making billions in profit.
👉🏼Over the past decade, the company has received billions in tax breaks and subsidies from both Canada and the U.S.

https://t.co/91yrcs2kFA

Reply on TwitterRetweet on Twitter12Like on Twitter13Twitter
Load More...

Facebook

2 years ago
'We need some fire': climate change activists issue call to arms for voters

What are you doing in your community to get out the vote?

View on facebook
2 years ago

This is an old, old trick...

Back in the 1980's, then President Reagan's budget director David Stockman coined the phrase "strategic deficit" to describe the usefulness of creating long-term budgetary shortfalls to legitimize cutting programs that the 1% wanted to do away with. ... See more

View on facebook
2 years ago
40% of American middle class face poverty by the time they reach age 65: Study

It's time to tax Wall Street and build an economy that works for the 99% and for the planet!

View on facebook
2 years ago
#MarriottStrike Day of Action! - One Job Should Be Enough by UNITE HERE

Following the mass teacher uprisings earlier this year, hotel workers across the country are striking the wealthiest hotel chain on the planet, Marriott, demanding fair wages and dignity on the job.

Stand with them in #Solidarity this Saturday at actions in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Hawaii...
... See more

View on facebook
2 years ago
Hurricane Michael Ravaged the Florida Panhandle. Will Residents Be Able to Vote?

Climate change not only creates disproportionate crisis in the lives of working class communities, it can be devastating for an already weak democracy where many suffer from voter suppression.

View on facebook
« ‹ 1 of 15 › »

Categories

Archives

Search

No Result
View All Result

Social

Tags

Arab Spring Barbara Lee Bernie Sanders Brexit College for All Act Democratic Party Donald Trump Education For All Environmental Justice Europe Financial Transaction Tax Hillary Clinton Inclusive Prosperity Act Ireland Jean Ross Keith Ellison Medicare For All National Nurses United Populist Movement RoseAnn DeMoro Tuition-Free Public College United Kingdom Wall Street

About

The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny financial transaction tax on Wall Street (less than one half of 1%) that could generate $300 billion annually. It will kickstart the economy by funding College For All, creating jobs, and strengthening public services like healthcare, education, and infrastructure at home — while tackling AIDS, global health, poverty, and climate challenges around the world.
Robin Hood Tax
  • Contact
  • Sitemap
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2020, The Robin Hood Tax

No Result
View All Result
  • Why We Need Robin
  • Who’s Behind It
    • Endorsing Organizations
    • RHT Around The World
  • How It Works
    • The Big Idea
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Policy Library
  • Get Involved
  • Blog

Copyright © 2020, The Robin Hood Tax