Yes so they day 90% of the daytraders lose money and as you say 100% marketmakers make money. But then there goes a shitlaod of reveune, from the daytraders with all the volume, less volume less market maker jobs, , less volume no need for 10000s of jobs in the financial instituions and back office ops, that hurts the economy. Evne the scott trades, tdameritrades( i USED TO WORK THERE) , SCHWABS, all revenue comes frmo commission and what not which will be really hit. Beucase not just the daytraders but avg investors who do 10 trades a year will do less becuase of the transaction tax, no the guy who rebalances a half million dollar portfolio is not going to want to pay 2500 dollars extrad to do so! Like I said before , nothing is on the books yet nothing passed and nothing has been submitted since it was tossed from the first TARP in sept. So we have 5 years to worry about it. When things get a little better this shit will die down, just like oil at 150 and people wanting the heads of the companies and etc.... now you dont even hear a peep anymore. No matter how dire the situation, america always forgets as soon as it gets a tad better, thats greed in us, but it works!