The Financial Transactions Tax, Feared by the Good, Loved by the Bad [The Economist]

IN THE summer of 1991, an appalling ballad by Bryan Adams called “Everything I Do I Do it For You” topped the charts for weeks. The song was the soundtrack to an equally dreadful film called "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves".  A radio show around that time had a lovely story about a bride who asked the organist at the church to play the song from Robin Hood as she came down the aisle. But instead of the romantic dirge, she found herself getting married to the jauntier strains of “Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen”.