The revenues collected – easily hundreds of billions of dollars annually – could be spent on global public goods such as development assistance, vaccines for tropical diseases, and the greening of technologies in use in the developing world. The administrative difficulties in implementing a Tobin tax are not insurmountable, as long as all major advanced countries go along.
征收托宾税（Tobin tax）所得的税收——很容易就达到每年几千亿美元——可以花在诸如发展支援、热带疾病疫苗以及使在发展中国家使用的技术变得环保这样的全球公益事业上。只要所有的主要发达国家都支持托宾税（Tobin tax），实施它的行政障碍就是可以克服的。然后，就可能通过威胁要孤立离岸金融中心的方式，使它们合作。