President Jacques Chirac of France, but also Brazil’s leftist president, Lula da Silva support a tax on airline tickets designed to finance poor countries’ development. Similarly, the centrist leader François Bayrou, has proposed imposing a “Tobin tax” (named after its creator, the Nobel laureate economist James Tobin) on financial transactions, with the proceeds to be used to support socially worthy causes.
有趣的是，激进的反全球化人士提出的观点可以在右翼倡议中找到回音。法国总统雅克·希拉克以及巴西左派总统卢拉·达席尔瓦都支持对航空机票征税用来资助穷国发展。类似的是，中间派领导人弗郎索瓦·贝胡保证对金融交易征收“托宾税”（根据该税的倡导者、诺贝尔经济学奖得主詹母斯·托宾的名字命名），其收益用于支持具有社会价值的事业。