Worstall on taxing interbank lending November 14, 2009 Wordsmith 4435 worstall-on-taxing-interbank-lending So now it's proposed that we should tax the banking system to destruction – the same one that we spent billions bailing out. This is a ruinously destructive course of action that will plunge us all into penury. Tim Worstall, 'A flaw in the TUC masterplan', guardian.co.uk.