Bill Nighy video backing Robin Hood tax on banks

Bill Nighy video backing Robin Hood tax on banks


Bill Nighy appears in the video subsidy the Robin Hood tax upon banks to lift billions of pounds to quarrel misery as well as meridian change. . Follow us upon chatter during twitter.com


25 Responses to 'Bill Nighy video backing Robin Hood tax on banks'

  1. TheStoneWhiteMan - May 11th, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    the best idea i ever heard !

  2. ArmyFtBall - May 11th, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    The European Union is in a total financial mess & you want to pull out another 600,000,000,000 per year to give to charitable organizations?  That’s more than the whole country of Greece needs! Are you nuts?!?!

  3. brainte - May 11th, 2010 at 2:42 pm

    Nice idea but this will never work with privatised banks.Banks need to be nationalised.

  4. swameePropaghanda - May 11th, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    @WinstonSmith46 funny that you use the word ‘socialist’ as if it were a bad thing

  5. ForexCheckMate - May 11th, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    @Orbi90 according to the WHO reports it’s 40 billion to end world hunger and 400 billion for shelter, water, health etc… 100 billion pounds a year? that’s what? 150 billion dollars +? world hunger could be over tomorow humanity makes me sad hell doesn’t exist ,

  6. elise3103 - May 11th, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    How can anyone oppose this?? I think it’s brilliant, and we all need to support it – tell your local MP you want it to go ahead.

  7. CyberAthletethefirst - May 11th, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    @PeteJones100 I am willing to help anyone who will join me in going to take it back.

  8. 1929spectre - May 11th, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    how about a tax on the so-called “charities” that sit on huge amounts of cash paying executives salaries etc ? Change the law so that they must donate % 90 of there donations and only allowed to keep %10 sitting in banks ,actualy give the money to the people it was purposed to go too ? And my personal favourite tax the church !

  9. 1929spectre - May 11th, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    how about a tax on the so-called “charities” that sit on huge amounts of cash paying executives salaries etc ? Change the law so that they must donate % 90 of there donations and only allowed to keep %10 sitting in banks ,actualy give the money to the people it was purposed to go too ? And my personal favourite tax the church !

  10. Orbi90 - May 11th, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    @kered13 Not really,

    the idea is to implement this tax on every main bank from around the world which will iteract with the uk banks, and seeing as the worlds banking sector is worth well over a trillion pounds, then 100 billion will be small change, and seeing as it is the banks that got itself into the mess, then surely they should be the ones to get us out,

  11. MiaEllentybnz - May 11th, 2010 at 5:21 pm

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  12. wwwNooBcom - May 11th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

    “To help save lives in poorest countys”

    FUCK other countrys!!!!!!!, when will these bastards start concentrating on this fucking country and get it out the hell hole thats its in right now!!

  13. ReinerWolfgangsee - May 11th, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    I see that you have already been answered to but there is one point i still have to make: Dont you think that it would be more sensible to invest money in projects that serve the community instead of keeping the potential in mind boggling financial “games” as they often seem to me, that are totally detached from real progress that should be made (in some sence).

  14. PeteJones100 - May 11th, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    sounds like a pretty logical way for the bankers to PAY BACK WHAT THEY F*CKING OWE US!

  15. CapitalistOverlord - May 11th, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    @Info4People
    I doubt another bank will be bailed out, so there won’t be any government money going to them.

  16. CapitalistOverlord - May 11th, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    @kered13
    No, we don’t. However, this IS a small tax on banks. I’m not sure if the video made it clear or not, but they’re not taxing one bank.
    I should remind you that trillions of pounds are traded in foreign markets a day, by banks.

  17. balcarales - May 11th, 2010 at 7:47 pm

    @kered13
    That is the idea of percentage:
    The clip compares SMALL PERCENTAGE that banks are supposed to pay with LARGE TOTAL SUM of money collected. There is no fallacy in that. You can challenge the figures, but hardly the method.
    Of course someone will have to pay this money, but the idea is at least as good as any redistributive system, so maybe you do not like redistributive systems as such (which is OK, but than you would have to fight almost any tax used in modern society).

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  19. kered13 - May 11th, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    Oh god, such a horrible logical fallacy. They try to argue first that the banks will pay almost nothing, and the very next thing they’re arguing that its going to collect so much money.

    The money raised for the government by the tax IS THE SAME money the banks pay. If the tax will collect so much money, then the banks must be losing it. If the banks are paying almost nothing, then the tax must be raising almost nothing.

    Seriously, do people think taxes CREATE money or something?

  20. Info4People - May 11th, 2010 at 9:06 pm

    Hold on!
    Who is in receivership of taxes: The banks.
    Who would pick up the bill for the banks in this case: The people.

    Wake up sheeple!

  21. smoochym - May 11th, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    “economy equivalent of burning your bridges before you cross them”

    No it’s the economic equivalent of shooting yourself in the face.

    There will be less tax revenues from banking than there are now.

  22. ericclaptonismygod31 - May 11th, 2010 at 10:23 pm

    Alright, Leave the UK.
    Say bye bye to the only profitable sector of your economy. Offshore your banking sector. Nice.

  23. monkeybp - May 11th, 2010 at 10:35 pm

    Yes, investment needs to be moved away from short term profits.

    However, uncompetitive tax systems and labour legislation has already cost the country its manufacturing sector.

    If you unilaterally introduce such a tax and tax financial services away to Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Zurich, New York, or Beijing, economy equivalent of burning your bridges before you cross them.

    The money from taxes on the banks profits and wages is more money than no money as the business has moved offshore

  24. pdubya66 - May 11th, 2010 at 11:22 pm

    Not a socialist just a realist. The majority of those 6 billion people live in poverty, and the minority who don’t are bombarded with charity requests to help them.

    Sport Relief, Comic Relief, Children in Need and the countless spin offs as well as helping the regular charities and digging deep when earthquakes etc strike.

    So as a realist I do think 6 billion would agree the banks should pay more, even if just to free spare cash for us to donate to charity cos the filthy stinking rich wont.

  25. WinstonSmith46 - May 11th, 2010 at 11:47 pm

    Right! and you think you can speak for 6 billion people, you must be a socialist.


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