Finance committee  At the moment, I think it has been calculated that about $3 trillion a day gets traded in currencies, with very little of that, really, of any benefit in terms of any economy. Tobin was an economist—I think he has died, actually—who put forward the proposal that if you raised 0.

Finance committee  Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you about the important matter of the budget, albeit from a rather philosophic perspective. I come here--as I've indicated in my paper, which I hope you'll read for yourselves--as a concerned citizen, but one who is something of a life