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Hey Guru, hope you had happy thanksgiving. Good article. We can all email the author of the article above, flood him with good responses to his well written article and ask him to send it to the rep in Colorado Ed Perlmutter who is sponsoring this tax. At the least the Denver Post...

If you read up on Krugman, he has won many awards he is liberal , an economist, all that junk. He is an esteemed member of society some say. But there are also alot of criticisms of him as well, and one glaring one was shaping a story for his benefit of his opinion regardles of what they facts...

This article was written by Paul Krugman he is a know advocate for the Tobin Tax so please comment on this article, its an OP-ED in the NY Times. He pissed me off so I commented on it. i think I might have been the first one to comment but not sure if it will go thru, I didnt curse but was blunt...

Thanks Jnorty Now here is for reading between the lines for those who have followed Brown and downing street's words. First a few weeks ago it was only tobin and not the other type of options like innsurance fees. resolution fund, now Brown includes that in his rhetoric. Also Downing street...

Brown is softening a little bit, now he is not just touting the tobin, but he says also an insurance fee, or resoloution fund etc.. He was talking only tobin a few weeks ago. But now he seems to be taking credit and EUROPE seems to think these are Browns options he came up with so he can look...

And some new recent insight into the transaction tax that Brazils Lulu and France Sarkozy are suggesting for environmental purposes. In their meeting today first point of contention,Lulu called everyone using his forest Gringos! That wont help their cause:) I guess Brazil should worry more about...

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article6934273.ece Same info as The Hill article but never hurts to comment!

There is no passing this one an international scale. It doesnt matter what they do in their own countries. We just worry about the US congress is all. You see when Gordon Brown mentions the tax, people turned their heads, when Sarkozy was talking about it all the time, nobody took him...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.yhoKL9JFgg Here that one is!! Thats a joke, plus old news they wanted this for some time. No one will take that serious for an environmental fund:)

Well I was just stating this becuase I dont agree with you on a lot of things but to each his own, we are still fighting for the same thing. I am not here to fight with you or anyone on this board. I wish you a happy thanksgiving, hopefully next year we will be able to give thanks that this did...

For once I agree with Zdreg, Calabria has been at this before and has stated his opposition for the tax. If you have not already emailed him go ahead, and if you have do it again. Here is Calabria from a piece when we had the g20 meetings: “We should focus our attention on things that...

Well said

Good deal happy Thanksgiving!

Its a good place for people to vent plus if we get it out there and convince people on here to make a big deal of it on the comments section of these articles like CSTFX said it betters our chances. Better to be proactive now then before its too late and gains more steam. Better to keep the big...

Good call CSTFX, we just need to pound it out there in the public eye, we can talk about it here all day long and thats fine, but we also need to keep it up on the threads that will actually be seen by public and the author's of these articles that print this transaction tax crap! Just remember...

Here is the article about the new bill from last week and The Hill article from the other day as well. This is a different bill from when this thread was started in Jan or Feb of this year. http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/18/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5700582.shtml...

There was nothing said on this bill or the other bill. hr 1068. It sounds like his goal is not to exempt those people. If you exempt everyone whom is an exchange member you get no money. Props will get all the business , you can lease memberships on the futures exchanges. It seems they really...

That's the old bill, that 100k exemption was not in there yet. That was the bill from the begining of the year. The new bill is Let wall street pay for restoration of main street act 2009, it has yet to be posted and only thing that was floating around was copies to journalists. It should be...

If zdreg would look into reality he would see its not a per trade exemption. If you actually read what the bill has stated it was the first 100,000 dollars traded or invested annually, anything after your first 100,000 dollars annually would be taxed.

It was brought up by the hill in a copy they received of the bill from Defazio, and Defazio talked about it on TV as well that the first 100k of trades would be exempt or refunded. He did not go into specifics of it but that's what was said by the congressman.