{"id":1294,"date":"2012-10-18T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2013-10-18T07:02:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:02:30","slug":"robin-hood-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/robin-hood-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Hood Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>:: 2013 update &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.uk\/latest\/dont-believe-hype-robin-hood-tax-alive-and-kicking\" title=\"Robin hood tax alive and kicking\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.uk\/latest\/dont-believe-hype-robin-hood-tax-alive-and-kicking<\/a> ::<\/p>\n<p>A rockin good idea. Sure not easy to roll out, and in danger of being &#8216;hijacked&#8217; at some point, or see inflated overheads, but still a beautiful (and just) idea.<\/p>\n<p>Go and vote YES \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qYtNwmXKIvM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Why now?<\/h2>\n<p>Because the time is right.<\/p>\n<p>From 2007 to present the world is suffering the greatest recession since World War I that is caused by a crash in the financial system. There is global agreement that we need to regulate finance so it cannot crash in the same way again, even if there are different views about how to do this. But the finance sector can \u2013 and should \u2013 make a proper tax contribution towards putting right the damage it caused and making the world a better, fairer, more sustainable place.<\/p>\n<p>Computerisation of the finance sector has made a tax like this easy to implement. What\u2019s more, it\u2019s made it necessary \u2013 the very speed of today\u2019s financial systems is a direct contributor to the surge in global trading. Nowadays, too much trading is done to make a quick profit, and not to serve the real economy. This high frequency trading has brought instability. <\/p>\n<p>read more here <a title=\"Robinhoodtax.org.au\" href=\"http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.au\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>:: 2013 update &#8211; http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.uk\/latest\/dont-believe-hype-robin-hood-tax-alive-and-kicking :: A rockin good idea. Sure not easy to roll out, and in danger of being &#8216;hijacked&#8217; at some point, or see inflated overheads, but still a beautiful (and just) idea. Go and vote YES \ud83d\ude42 Why now? Because the time is right. From 2007 to present the world is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,15,16],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-that-matters","tag-about-the-web-and-you-and-me-and-all","tag-futurism-vs-conservatism","tag-performance-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}