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People vote with their hearts and fuzzy feelies when they hear about how it's going to be different this time with promises of utopia if you vote for such and such. They only want reassuring words to make them feel good. Don't actually think about it, feeeeel it. Politicians are totally obsessed...

Argentines risking all to carry huge wads of cash By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and MICHAEL WARREN (AP) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The "marker" lurks inside the bank, looking for people pulling large amounts of cash from a safe deposit box or bank account. The gunmen linger outside, usually on...

Several (leftist) sites lately are saying that the IMF has suddenly been influenced by the proponents and is now becoming pro FTT - secret leaked documents... bs. This leftist site mentions what I said above and: European Commission Plans to Argue Against a Financial Transaction Tax at...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/chinas-traffic-jam-lasts-11-days-reaches-74/story?id=11550037

60 states to lobby U.N. for currency transaction tax http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE6806F220100901?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true "For every 1,000 euros the tax we are suggesting will bring 5 cents," Kouchner told reporters. "It's not a lot, but enough to get...

Hundreds of billions or trillions vaporized in the stimulus bill wasted on abstract nonsense, now they scream for funds for something concrete, tangible and important like concrete and asphalt.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn supports trans tax to pay for fed transportation bill. http://www2.wspa.com/news/2010/aug/31/4/clyburn-talk-about-roads-and-bridges-sc-ar-771569/

Another article, more info. http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/eu-experts-sceptical-of-financial-transactions-tax_93135.html

What rubibond007 said. Government set up an environment that would fail.

The socialists do not use Intel processors. They do not contribute to the "problem with Intel" by buying Intel products. Or do they?

You don't want to live here, but it's home. My hometown's population is hard to determine as they count the whole township. The town has maybe a few dozen houses, doesn't have a traffic light, we don't have a bank anymore, no grade school anymore, school is 12 miles away and an hour each way on...

Many are dropping cable and satellite for broadcast and not just to save money. If the program is broadcast in HDTV rather than just digital, they say the picture quality surpasses any of cable or so-called digital satellite. Just before the switch to digital, I spent many enthusiastic hours...

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Just plain bad news regardless of FTT. The less these expletives do to us the better.

On August 1st Turkey abolished transaction tax on banking, insurance and the 5% trans tax on derivatives. Really 5%? http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2010/08/19/turkish-derivatives-receive-double-boon/

Yeah, they will let one of those crazy hedge funds and their 100 billion share sell order to go through in an instant, let your piddly emergency exit order hang forever at the same time.

Or Ricter's dream job.

What do you call it when those that rule over the citizens, call themselves servants of the public and have a standard of living multiples more than those that pay their wages?

What do you call it when those that call themselves servants of the public make twice as much as those that pay their wages?

I was thinking about this 2009 thread just a while ago. Norway and other countries are in the process of implosion. Releasing this tax list to the public is just another step. The losers, the non-productive, gold diggers, blackmailers, kidnappers and other socialists will enjoy this...