Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation

Dean Baker

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Abstract: Although the national debate on financial transactions taxes has just begun, there have been a wide range of responses arguing that the tax is either undesirable or unenforceable, or both. This paper presents a brief response to these criticisms.

Keywords: taxes; speculation; transactions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G G1 G18 G2 G24 G28 G3 G38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2010-01
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