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yurbud

(39,405 posts) Tue Dec 11, 2012, 11:24 PM Dec 2012

Given the massive Wall Street bailouts, should "fiscal cliff" talks include taxing them?

As soon as I heard the idea of a small transaction tax, I thought it would be fitting if the rate was set so the first year it collected as much as Hank Paulson's $700 billion blackmail demand, and executive compensation of any kind over a million dollars can't be counted as a labor cost.

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Given the massive Wall Street bailouts, should "fiscal cliff" talks include taxing them? (Original Post) yurbud Dec 2012 OP

It should have been done as a condition of the bailout along with repealing Gramm-Leach-Bliley. yourout Dec 2012 #1

yourout

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1. It should have been done as a condition of the bailout along with repealing Gramm-Leach-Bliley.