Japanese companies concentrated on investment not profits because the financial system and the tax regime encouraged them to do just that.

ECONOMIST: Worse to come

Consumers because absolutely everything is made through the intermediation of the financial system and at each point of such contact with that system the tax will be charged.

FORBES: The Truth About the Financial Transactions Tax or the Robin Hood Tax

Now it is back at the front line of gargantuan bail-out packages, wrangling over government spending and tax reform, and attempts to stop sovereign defaults further disturbing the jittery global financial system.

ECONOMIST: The Russian default

The Nellis project was developed through a complex arrangement between the Air Force and financial partners where power providers covered system construction costs in return for a guaranteed market along with substantial federal tax subsidies and other incentives.

FORBES: The New Military War Against Climate Change

Restore the financial system and the economy, spur growth and these tax receipts will reappear.

FORBES: Raise Taxes To Kill A Recovery And Nail The Coffin Shut

Green group leader Rebecca Harms said that there needed to be wide ranging reform of Europe's banking system such as banning hedge funds and introducing a financial transaction tax, a call echoed by Lothar Bisky, the leader of the far-left group.

BBC: European Parliament