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Come on, you know the difference between broker commissions and transaction tax. You are just playing around.

Commissions go to a broker, not the govt. Commissions are not a tax.

I am not so convinced. He is agitating hard his social programs and people love freebies above anything else. The fact that he is second to Biden on the Democratic party crowded list tells that his socialist ideas are quite popular. Even inconceivably they have a support of some elitetraders.

Do you even trade? What is your average annual rate of return? How many trades on average do you make?

I guess you make over 50K per year hands down and would love to pay transaction tax to make a little bit less. Isn't so? And what post I don't understand?

And the point is?

And?

Take a loan from the bank.

President Trump's veto? Bernie is running for president in 2020, remember?

In a fair system only profits should be taxed, not an attempt to make them. Will he abolish capital gains tax? He might not even care as much about taxes but just wants to kill the Wall Street trading business b/c Wall Street people are not true "working people" in his communist mind. Why is he...

Isn't this Senator Bernie's job to sponsor the legislation that would benefit the poor? If you simply mean that the tax legislation favors the rich, then be reminded that the top 5 percent pays about 58% percent of all income taxes. Not sure how does it benefit the wealthy?

Sure, until the agitating hard socialists and borderline communists run out of other people's money. And I always thought a mature democracy is better at protecting minority rights: ethnic minority rights, religious minority rights, LGBT rights, rich people rights.

Everybody uses the listed govt basic services but individual tax contributions vary vastly from person to person and some people's benefit from govt programs is many times larger than their contribution. Did you forget to mention socialist welfare programs? That's why for some people taxes are a...

"minimum threshold that prevents cronic unhappiness" means different things to different people. For some people taxes are a legalized robbery which negatively affects their incentive to work and/or their personal freedoms. What does 90% tax on your income mean for you?

I guess Bernie found easy money.

How much money is enough to be happy? What would you do if unsatisfied with your income?

Whatever my taxes, I don't want some govt communists to demonize rich people b/c they are as important for the country as anyone else. Everybody should have equal rights regardless of their income or wealth under the law.

I can show you many poor people who are pretty much happy with their lives and all the possessions they've got.

That's why the taxes should go down over time. Taxes are legalized robbery for some people which harm the incentive to work.

Researchers say money does not buy happiness and money does not grow on trees.