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How about brokerages that need their active traders to stay in business? Are they doing anything? The big question is that if broker dealers and market makers get their exemptions. how are going to get much of a revenue from this very nasty and complicated tax?

Some good points on this crazy tax http://www.investingwithoptions.com/2009/12/my-comments-on-the-trader-tax/

If you live in NYC or Chitown, get all your neighbours, friends to call their elected politicians. This will affect non-traders too! Even if you run a hamburger stand inNYC or Chicago!

How about Market Markers? they will get a big spread between bid and ask when retail traders are gone. With or w/o the exemption, they are likely to get a windfall?

Businesswoman? Con-artist more like it. Madoff is lucky he ain't in China.

Few American politicians work for the everyday folks. They work for the big campaign contributors.

Financial Times is the paper for big bankers with bonus pay? Transaction tax affects all investors, large and small - even when the investor has no gains! Bonus tax only affect the big bankers with big bonues.

According to the WSJ: But Mr. DeFazio's bill would tax transactions by U.S. citizens no matter where they occur. To escape the tax, he says, people would have to move their citizenship, not just their money...

Please help post the link to GreenTraderTax to the trader bulletin boards you know. http://www.rallycongress.com/greentradertax-traders-association1/

Big Busines Big Unions own our government more than it is has ever in earlier times. This is the gigantic gift to the insurance companies than harms everyday Americans. ROBERT KUTTNER: Think about it, the difference between social insurance and an individual mandate is this. Social...