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ah proud to be an american. definately pays to dream. just in case this doesnt pan out i am polishing my hammer and sickle

this is what i hoped all along the only way it gets passed is globally which the chance of that happening is zero nada never will happen. this has never been done to this extreme nor will it. but domestically this had more of a chance because the control factors own the majority as of now. but...

you are no doubt aware, many politicians have recently voiced their support for taxing financial transactions, among them French President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel. U.S. President Barack Obama has also noted the need for “a Financial Stability Fee on the financial services industry...

lol thats the ticket

the easiest stocks to manipulate are the illiquid ones. i could make a stock go up 2pts with my whopping 500k bp.

this is what i was talking about johnysharp unless americans see this in black and white on what it would do to the retirement accounts over the life of the tax. talking to mainstreet about other costs is talking way over their head. 80% of mainstreet investors think a spread is the food at...

again people they need to see numbers if i was gonna make 1,500,000 for my retirement with no tax or 1,000,000 with the tax kinda hard for middle america to say hmmm i would still prefer the tax atleast that half a million or so that i was taxed over 40 years went to a good cause

folks we need to show examples over a long period of time 10 years 30 years etc so americans can see black and white. im not that good in math anybody want to take a swing at it assuming you put away 5k a year for 40 years and turn over you portolio once a year

what we need to do as traders is forget about us for a second and think about our iras and such and do some computing. example if i contribute the max to my sep ira or roth ira show the percentages do be gained with the tax and without the tax side by side in black and white so main street...

because you are generalizing, why should all traders pay for the few institutions who are responsible. thats like me saying i think all blacks should be held responsible for violent crime. you cant lump everybody together and put a lable on them. the select few should not carve out the...

basically calling out the 9/11 victims and saying that their professions were useless and they served no purpose to society. try going to explain that to the victims families. calling all those traders that worked for cantor fitzgerald parasites. puts a new spin on it when you look at it that...

i agree we the people hopefully our reps and senators get the point. i know mine here in NC do kate hagen who is a democrat is not in favor of this tax as our dems in other financial hubs such as ny, chicago, im sure s.f. cali all though these are strong banking towns so that should be expected...

trade for a firm that has exchange status via finra cboe cbx etc. professionals will get exemptions whether you trade prop for gs or some other bd. the indivdual acctt i have now through lightspeed would be no good. now how they keep their mouths shut as to how all the exchange members get...

just saw on cramers mad money he recanted his view and said he was against the tax, said he was bombarded with emails cant believing he was for the tax

anybody with exchange status memberships would be exempt, you just have to join a firm with that status instead of trading on your own.

if our pockets could wait that long:p

u took the words right out of my mouth, you can stay under the 100k limit. if i trade 100 shares at a time of a 100 stock its only 10k a transaction, tell you what that would put a crimp in block trading. if this passes something will happen that will split prints up anything to keep it under...

here is the irony, these job creations hes talking about are only temporary until the job gets done. one of my good buddies is an electrician a noble job but he is unemployed every year and half or so because his job is ending. not for nothing the people that work on wall street or in the...