After all, there certainly is a case to be made that an FTT has so much gut-level popular appeal that politically powerful financial interests could not block it. One can almost buy this idea, except that the tax is so counterproductive in the long run that it is hardly obvious that it would be better than nothing.
另一种可能性是，欧盟认为金融交易税的政治好处胜过其经济危害。金融交易税在民意上如此讨好，以至于颇有政治影响力的金融利益集团也无法加以阻止，这种解释也说得过去。这笔买卖兴许划算吧，除了一点：这种税的长期效果实在是不利于增长，很难说有它比没它来得好。