City bankers won't move to Zug – there's no Spearmint Rhino. Such arguments weakened with the 50p tax rate. The UK government is now toying with a windfall bonus tax. Coshing the bankers will be satisfying. Making people feel better about public service cuts is savvy. It will also help in places such as Teesside, where thousands may lose their jobs because of Corus's closure of the area's last steelworks: the government is vulnerable to charges it bailed out the banks but failed to do enough for the manufacturing firms that buy British steel.
伦敦金融城的银行家是不会迁到瑞士楚格(Zug)去的，因为那里没有Spearmint Rhino（著名的脱衣舞俱乐部——译者注）。但面对50%的税率，这个理由会变得苍白。英国政府正考虑开征一项奖金暴利税。拿银行家开刀将会令很多人满意，让人们对削减公共服务感觉好一些是聪明之举。这种做法在蒂赛德(Teesside)等地也会有所帮助——数千人可能将因为克鲁斯集团(Corus)关闭该地区仅存的钢铁厂而失业。政府将很容易受到这样的指责：它对银行进行了救助，而对购买英国钢铁的制造企业，却未给予足够的帮助。