Financial transaction tax: The good, the bad and the irrelevant

Here's an interesting piece from the May 9, 2014 edition of the Jamaica Gleaner on the Financial Transaction Tax, from a Jamaican perspective.

The author declares, "Actually, if any economy has just cause for an FTT it is Jamaica, whose citizens and Government provided in excess of $140 billion in taxpayer support for savers, the insured and pensioners as a result of the mid-1990s indigenous financial-services sector crash."

 Read the article. What do you think?

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