{"id":468263,"date":"2010-03-24T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11755"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:41:09","slug":"oxfam-chancellor-wrong-to-rule-out-unilateral-robin-hood-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/468263","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam: Chancellor wrong to rule out unilateral Robin Hood Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Thomas Schultz-Jagow, Oxfam Campaigns Director, said: &#8220;The Chancellor&#8217;s proposal for a global bank tax falls well short of a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions that would raise the hundreds of billions needed to help poor people at home and abroad hit by the economic crisis and tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The Chancellor&#8217;s opposition to a unilateral bank tax is plain wrong. Robin Hood gathered his merry men by leading from the front not by waiting for global agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Further information: <\/strong>Jon Slater +44 (0)1865 472249\/+44 (0)7876 476403<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Schultz-Jagow, Oxfam Campaigns Director, said: &#8220;The Chancellor&#8217;s proposal for a global bank tax falls well short of a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions that would raise the hundreds of billions needed to help poor people at home and abroad hit by the economic crisis and tackle climate change. &#8220;The Chancellor&#8217;s opposition to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}