{"id":34948,"date":"2013-04-11T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34948"},"modified":"2013-04-11T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:01:09","slug":"reuters-lew-says-u-s-still-opposed-to-financial-transaction-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/04\/11\/reuters-lew-says-u-s-still-opposed-to-financial-transaction-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Lew says U.S. still opposed to financial transaction tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Treasury Secretary Jack Lew reiterated the government&#8217;s opposition to a tax on financial transactions, which would make banks pay for help in the financial crisis and is gaining steam in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the design element you&#8217;re describing is very problematic,&#8221; Lew said in response to a question from Democratic Representative Richard Neal on the House Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven euro zone countries plan to introduce the tax next January, but little support has emerged on the other side of the Atlantic. Lew, who was testifying about the president&#8217;s budget, said any tax that applies to transactions beyond a country&#8217;s borders could cause difficulties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/04\/11\/us-usa-tax-lew-idUSBRE93A0NR20130411\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Treasury Secretary Jack Lew reiterated the government&#8217;s opposition to a tax on financial transactions, which would make banks pay for help in the financial crisis and is gaining steam in Europe. &#8220;I think the design element you&#8217;re describing is very problematic,&#8221; Lew said in response to a question from Democratic Representative Richard Neal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}