Farm Aid needs corporate sponsors to help underwrite the costs of its 2013 concert event, which will increase the resourcesavailable to support its work with family farmers.
Imposing an FTT actually reduces tax revenues by about that 0.7% of GDP, meaning that an FTT would wipe out the aid that we already give rather than increase the resourcesavailable to be given.
Opponents of the death penalty, accepting that it is most unlikely to disappear, would at least like to increase the resourcesavailable to defendants in capital cases, and require some minimum level of competence from lawyers and investigators.
Trade allows a country to shift its pattern of production in such a way that, after exporting those goods it does not want and importing those it does, it can consume more without there having been any increase in its availableresources.
As economic policy, this fails because shuffling resources from one group to another cannot increase the aggregate resourcesavailable to the community.