The point of a tax is to make amends for all the shit something creates but doesn’t ever pay for, like taxing tobacco to pay for lung cancer; or to encourage a positive change to a better way of doing things, like taxing greenhouse gas emissions.
Well I think we can all agree that banks create a lot of costs they don’t pay for and are doing things in a way which is frankly fucking outdated and should be changed. So they’re fucking ripe for a tax (agrees Mr.Osborne).
Lend your weight to those feisty bandits at the Robin Hood tax and restore some fucking balance.