{"id":6208,"date":"2010-02-25T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/25\/far-too-good-not-to-listen-too\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T11:13:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:13:46","slug":"far-too-good-not-to-listen-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/25\/far-too-good-not-to-listen-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Far too good not to listen too"},"content":{"rendered":"

I admire the ingenuity of TUC colleagues who have written on the TUC Touchstone blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Here at ToUChstone, we’re big fans of Jonathan Mann<\/a>, a very talented US singer\/songwriter, whose innovative solution to recession-imposed unemployment was to start writing a new song every<\/a> (yes, every) day<\/a>, making money from commissions, downloads, ringtones, anything (a kind of “weddings, parties, bar mitzvahs anything 2.0\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e?).<\/p>\n

As he’s already aced the popular \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00b2liberal economist biographies’ genre, with “Hey, Paul Krugman<\/a>“, and “Come on Nouriel<\/a>“, we asked him if he’d be interested in giving his own take on our current pet issue of financial transaction taxes. About 12 hours later, this is it:  Song\/day number 419, The Robin Hood Tax: <\/p>\n

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OK. it’s simplistic \u2014 who cares? Detail is for others: the reality is that this tax will<\/u> change behaviour in the City and around the world for the benefit of us all. And as a means of campaigning this is fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I admire the ingenuity of TUC colleagues who have written on the TUC Touchstone blog: Here at ToUChstone, we’re big fans of Jonathan Mann, a
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