There's was a piece the other day on the New York Times' website about the growing movement - particularly in Europe - in favor of a so-called "Robin Hood tax". These are tiny taxes on certain financial transactions, particularly the risky ones that generate large sums of money, seemingly out of thin air. The proceeds of the taxes, as the name suggests, are then used to support social programs. The idea has some high-profile supporters, such as Bill Gates and Angela Merkel, and not surprisingly, some powerful opponents in the US and UK.
I made the decision not to talk too much about current events on this blog, because every post would quickly become an incoherent rant, but this presents an opportunity to talk about a Disney movie, which is one of the things I said I was going to do (check out my read on The Little Mermaid here). It raised the question in my mind: is the Robin Hood we were presented as children, the fox in the green hat, a Socialist?
