| Topic: | Re:Bashing the bankers? | |
| Posted by: | John Gorst | |
| Date/Time: | 09/12/09 11:23:00 |
| It's a populist tax, pandering to the fundamental lack of understanding held by the typical Daily Mail reader. It makes no economic sense and I sincerely hope that the banks just find another way of paying their staff (e.g share options) that will see HM treasury incoming even less in the long term. I can understand an amount of frustration with the "publicly" owned banks like RBS paying their staff very large bonuses. But for those banks that never received a penny throughout the recent problems and have been self sufficient, in a free market they should be allowed to pay their staff as much as they want. |