Quote from Tide31:
There is a law in this country against 'double taxation'. It has been argued for years that dividends should not be taxed because these funds have already been taxed at the corporate level. Therefore the 'owners' of the company (the shareholders) should not be taxed. Bush among others favors doing away with dividend tax. A tax on securities transactions would therefore be deductable against earnings or future earnings and therefore a zero sum game for the government. Such thoughts will never be considered, but only tossed out there on the blog sites of egotistical maniacs.