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Today, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), one of the few Republicans to vote for passage of the financial reform bill, sent a letter to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) declaring his opposition to the roughly $19 billion "bank tax" on large banks and hedge funds that is included in the recently reconciled Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act
Today, the European Parliament approved a resolution urging that the European Union "agree on a common position in the international framework of G20 meetings as regards the options as to how the financial sector should make a fair and substantial contribution towards paying for any burden which it has caused to the real economy or which is associated with government interventions to stabilise the banking system."
Today, the European Parliament Economic Affairs Committee issued a press release stating that "a globally implemented tax to discourage excessive risk-taking by financial institutions and to ensure the industry pays for the damage caused by the financial crisis should be considered."
