Why the FTT makes no sense

The EC proposal to introduce a financial transaction tax amounts to a land grab, says Gary Richards

Baldrick, in the guise of the European Commission, has come up with a ‘cunning plan’. I refer of course to the proposed financial transaction tax.

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