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No matter who supports this, it is a disaster. It hoses the citizenry who have to now pay to their “Benevolent Rulers” a tax to avoid the inflation created by their “Benevolent Rulers”.
The is of course an easy way to stop outflows of money: Stop inflation. I know, Big Ben and his army of crazy counterfeiters would’nt like that and of course they rule the world.
See also great Willem Buiter at the fT on Tobin Tax: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/76e13a4e-9725-11de-83c5-00144feabdc0.html