The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax

Dean Baker

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Abstract: While a number of commissions and organizations around Washington have produced plans for reducing the projected deficit in the decades ahead, most have not included a financial speculation tax (FST) in the mix. This seems peculiar since an FST has several features that could make it attractive as a revenue source.

Keywords: taxes; speculation; transactions; Wall Street (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G G1 G18 G2 G24 G28 G3 G38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2011-01
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