UPDATE 1-Germany's SPD Woos Left With Tax On Financial Deals
* SPD unveils plan to tax financial transactions
* Step could be aimed at wooing left-wing voters
By Hans Busemann
BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have unveiled plans to push for a global tax on financial market transactions, in an apparent attempt to win over left-leaning voters weeks before election polls suggest they will lose.
In a paper by SPD chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, the party outlines steps to make banks bear some of the costs of the economic crisis.
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Steinbrück Seeks Global Tax
By Bertrand Benoit in Berlin , Financial Times, 11 Sep 2009
Germany's finance minister has called for a global tax to be imposed on financial transactions in an effort to end what he derided as "binge-drinking" on markets.
In one of the more radical steps mooted by a world leader to reform the financial system, Peer Steinbrück said receipts from the tax would be used to repay the cost to governments of tackling the crisis, including fiscal stimuli and bank rescue operations.
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