Jessie Helms and Tobin Tax

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Sat May 23 14:06:10 PDT 1998


At 10:02 AM 5/23/98 +0000, Hank Sims wrote:

A useful update certainly as far as I was concerned, on how progressive opinion has been forced to shift around within the UN. What I wonder are the more positive foci of thinking in international bodies?

But thanks especially for ...


> By the way, UNCTAD had promoted the Tobin tax, until Jesse Helms
>and his colleagues passed a budget rider that prohibited payment to
>any international organization studying any sort of international
>taxation. So that potato was dropped.

Why aren't we fighting for it?

Chris Burford

London.



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