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Publication Date: January 2011
Publisher: Center for Economic and Policy Research
Author(s): Dean Baker
Research Area: Banking and finance; Economics
Keywords: budget deficit; tax; Wall Street; transactions tax
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
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.