He also robbed the rich to give to the poor.
So does the spawn of Karl Marx
The environmental movement is now the home of and the front for world-wide marxism, communism and socialism.
The environmarxists are the prime perps in the concerted effort urging "G20 leaders to back the 'Robin Hood' tax".
Dig into the background of any and all globalistic 'Robin Hood' initiatives and you'll see they're riddled with marxist environmentalists, ecologists, academics and new-age faux scientists...not to mention shadowy financiers like Soros and demented political opportunists like AlGore.
Leni
“He also robbed the rich to give to the poor.”
Actually, Robin Hood fought against the rich....who had become wealthy robbing and overtaxing the poor. A case could then be made that Robin Hood fought against the corruption of the “government” of that time and place.
Poor Robin Hood. Everybody seems to be using and abusing his image for the wrong reasons.
When Marxists use the name of Robin Hood....it is only to try to give a good image to what they are actually doing....which is definitely NOT GOOD.
“He also robbed the rich to give to the poor.”
The “rich” Robin Hood robbed got their riches from taxes. The “poor” he gave the loot to were those who had everything they owned taken as “taxes”. The “poor” included former lords and ladies, like he himself, as well as craftsmen, merchants, and farmers. The regent and his cronies stole from everyone, in the guise of “taxes”, they thought they could get away with it with. They did it by using the might of the kingdom’s standing army.
Robin Hood stole from the regent and his cronies and gave the money back to those who originally earned it and had had it confiscated.
In modern parlance, it would be like empting Barney Frank’s bank account and giving it to small business owners. Or it would be like doing the same to those who have no-show jobs or nepotism jobs in Washington. Or perhaps it would be like robbing George Soros.
Robin Hood wasn’t a marxist, he was a patriot who had had enough of marxists. Prince John the regent was the marxist.
The marxists who came up with this “Robin Hood Tax” are doing what marxists always do, taking one thing and saying it means another. They might as well call it the “Tea Party’s Tax”.
He didn't rob the "rich" to give to the poor; he robbed the government, as it were, to return confiscated wealth back to the people from whom it had been stolen.