The US government isn't trying to arrange a bailout from the EU. Why would it need to impose a levy? And as Skybird will no doubt point out, the US government can always 'tax savings' by printing money (Cyprus can't, obviously, as other EU members would be rather p****d off to see their own money devalued). Printing money has the added 'advantage' that it works just as well when savings are hidden under mattresses as when they are in the banks.
As for the US government being more concerned about guns than the economy, I suspect it is more likely the case that it is easier to propose plausible fixes for the former than the latter (assuming that you think there is anything that needs 'fixing' concerning guns - I get the impression you don't). It is an old trick - old as politics itself, I'd think - for politicians to disguise their inability to actually do anything fundamental in economics by making controversial proposals elsewhere.
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