Then there are those3 who think there should be a financial transactions, or Robin Hood tax: failing to realise that it would be consumers who end up paying this not banks or bankers.
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The tax - also known as the "Tobin tax" or "Robin Hood tax" - would be placed on each individual financial transaction.
On September 28th it formally proposed a financial-transactions tax (FTT), otherwise known as a Tobin tax after James Tobin, a Nobel economics laureate who put forward a similar scheme for currency markets in 1972 or a Robin Hood tax by those who want to use the proceeds for aid purposes.
Politicians' ritual slanging matches should not be allowed to distract Canadians from weightier battles, such as the bobsleigh, the giant slalom or round-robin curling.
Fictional or historical, the characters are often portrayed as latter-day Robin Hoods, victims of oppression or the everyman brutalized by an economy or authority, Rapping said.
Bill Gates is announcing that he supports the Robin Hood, or Financial Transactions, Tax in order to raise revenue to be spent on aid to the poor in the Third World.
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Of course, the likes of Howard Webb and Martin Atkinson probably won't appeal to potential backers in the same way as star players, like Robin van Persie or Wayne Rooney, since Manchester United's global fan base is counted in the hundreds of millions.
Meanwhile, a local suspect (Robin Williams) shows his face, or, at any rate, gives Dormer something to run after.
The 28-year-old Davydenko, who won the Paris title in 2006, will next play either big-serving Croatian Ivo Karlovic or fellow London hopeful, ninth-seeded Swede Robin Soderling.
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Despite his terrible injuries and the 50 or so operations that followed to rebuild his face, Robin has never given in to self-pity.
People like Li YanHong and Robin Li, founders of Baidu.com, or famed entrepreneur Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba group, which owns the most popular e-commerce sites, or Pan Shiyi and wife Zhang Xin, the Donald Trumps of China.
If Robin Hood takes something for himself (administrative fees) or is inefficient or corrupt, the middle class and poor get a smaller percentage of their taxes back in the form of positive rights.
The comedy took an exciting turn for fans on Monday when Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin (Cobie Smulders) got engaged, leaving Ted (Josh Radnor) to search for new love after eight will-they-or-won't-they-moments between him and Robin.
"Sir Robin had not discussed any role as an expert, or any related matter, with Samsung or any of its representatives either directly or indirectly before 9 January 2013, when he was approached through his clerk by Bristows in the normal way to enquire as to his availability to give an expert opinion, " it said.
John Prescott, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and Robin Cook have all performed to Mr Blair's satisfaction, give or take a few ups-and-downs.
Robin: When you say we, do you mean the international community or do you think the people of Sudan should deal with it.
Terry could not file at all, or, as I would advise, file a 0 liability married filing separate return to forestall Robin from arguing that Terry consented to a joint return without signing it.
Mr. ROBIN PEMBERTON (Official, NASCAR): The inspector discovered a substance on the floor or inside the intake manifold that was not like anything that he has seen in any of his inspections of any other race car.
Green MSP Robin Harper's amendment, which urged the government to phase out the rearing of smolt or juvenile fish in freshwater open net-pens, fell, with two MSPs voting for it and 114 voting against it.
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