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)