The Robin Hood Tax (RHT) is a tiny international financial transaction tax designed to raise $400 billion annually to tackle the impacts of climate change on poverty. 25% of money raised would go directly toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Specifically designed not to hit consumers, a RHT has the added bonus of helping to reduce volatility in global financial markets.
Both the G20 and the European Union are considering introducing a Robin Hood Tax. But they won’t act unless we do too.
June 22 is a Global Day of Action. Join this international action by writing to the heads of the G20 and asking them to support a Robin Hood Tax now!
To the heads of states of the G20 and the European Union,
I want you to implement a Financial Transaction Tax in 2011 that will help regulate financial markets and raise revenue for global and domestic public goods such as health, education and water, and to tackle the challenge of climate change.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:16 am
Feed the poor
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:23 am
once we were families, then we were tribes, then nations. the one thing unchanged is that we are human. human is one global family. in this family we have our sons and daughters dying all over the world. we have to save all our childrem
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:40 am
To the organisers and originators of this idea.
I would love to see this tax created by the World community, to collect money for humanitarian reasons as proposed and specifically to eliminate poverty.
I would also like to see this fund being used to ultimately create the situation right around the World, where war in any country and between countries becomes unneccessary.
We humans can achieve this if we work towards this goal sincerely.
We have wars in our World which make no sense at all and we also have a very serious fight for survival from climate change.
Make no mistake, Climate change will eventually and possibly soon, eliminate us from our World.
Anyone who disregards this fact is a fool.
We cannot live on a dead Earth and we only have one planet.
Our fate is tied to the fate of our Earth.
So in summary, I would like this fund to be used to work on both these problems.
Edward Novotny
June 22nd, 2011 at 12:46 pm
“It is proposed that 50% of the money raised by the tax … and to pay for the costs of bail-outs associated with the global financial crisis.” [MPH email 22 June 2011]
I don’t believe this was an original intention for the tax – bailing out the greed of the Western consumers and their banks!
I thought we were about Making Poverty History?
Cheers
Peter
June 22nd, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I agree with edward above,lets save the poor and the planet with one with one tax,if we dont it wont matter if you are poor or rich we will all be i the same sinking boat. emily and terry nixon.
June 22nd, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Only comment with Compassion and passion —MAKE POVERTY HISTORY NOW.No excuses.1 billion people suffer from poverty.600 million from extreme poverty.This is a figure for the rest of the world to be ASHAMED OF.
June 22nd, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Please help the people of the world, why can’t we work as one, why do some children have no food, still get so very sick, still die before reaching adults, its not far , we have to start thinking global village = world
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:34 am
Out of curiosity, is anyone organising a rally/stunt for this global day of action? Or are there too many global days already
June 24th, 2011 at 8:07 am
We can’t legislate for kindness or compassion, but we can legislate for justice. The Robin Hood Tax is a step in the right direction.
June 29th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
How could they do that to Bon Scott!?
October 25th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Oh my god…YES!!!!! This is EXACTLY what I believe in!!!