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Van Hollen Financial Transaction Tax Proposal

THE PLAN

  • Text of Rep Van Hollen’s Proposal

STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT

  • Americans for Financial Reform
  • Public Citizen
  • AFL-CIO

ARTICLES

  • Democrat seeks U.S. middle class tax breaks at expense of wealthy (Reuters, January 12, 2015)
  • Rep. Van Hollen, in Opening Budget Salvo, Calls for Paycheck Tax Break (Washington Wire at WSJ, January 12, 2015)

  • Transaction-tax plan brings fresh Wall Street battle to Capitol Hill  (MarketWatch, January 12, 2015)

  • As Top Democrats Embrace a Robin Hood Tax, It’s Time for Activists to Go Big (The Nation, January 12, 2015)
  • House Democrats Break With Obama By Calling For Wall Street Tax (Huffington Post Politics, January 12, 2015)

  • The Cost to Savers of the Democrats’ Wall Street Sales Tax (Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 12, 2015)
  • A Proposed Pathway To A Brighter Future For Workers (Teamsters.org, January 13, 2015)

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