This guy is right on the mark.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=19&ved=0CE8QFjAIOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpointsandfigures.com%2F2011%2F02%2F28%2Fillinois-shoots-self-in-foot-again%2F&ei=8K1tTdv2GoG8lQeWzNyLBQ&usg=AFQjCNEOOyxZtz1aUkrSlCTBHbqL7z4Scw&sig2=rQ8Zdg8R-xZ4EsHu7xZoqA
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Huckabee-Matthews-Sheen/2011/03/01/id/387936
LOL. Actually, Charlie Sheen acts much more civilized than douche boy Matthews.
lol. You mean o'l whoremaster Teddy??? lol Maybe he rented that Chilean brothel so he, RFK, and JFK could have a circle jerk with/on Marilyn Monroe!!! :D
Hey, we could also document FDR's allowing of Pearl Harbor to happen, of LBJ's faking the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which allowed him to send over 58,000 Americans to their deaths in Vietnam!!!!!
All the Chicago exchanges would have to do is threaten to leave Illinois, and this proposal will be shit-canned so fast that the politicians will have been embarrassed to have even brought it up.
I agree that this will never pass. But if I were in charge of the Chicago exchanges I would definitely ponder moving operations to someplace like Texas, where you won't have these liberal douche bag politicians drafting FTT proposals and making everyone crazy.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Chicago-based exchange analyst with Raymond James Financial (RJF), said he believed the bill was "very, very unlikely" to become law.
"It would substantially disadvantage Illinois-based exchanges relative to their competitors and potentially even lead to Chicago-based...
If they pass a tax like this, all the Chicago based exchanges, and traders would immediately flee Illinois for another state.
I've been searching the hell out this story, and this is all I could find...