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In reply to the discussion: Republican Doomsday Plan: Cave on Taxes, Vote ‘Present’ [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)67. Your Day Trading can NOT keep up with Goldman's High Frequency Trading
at a rate of 70 Thousand trades a second. Yes, that is correct per second. Small traders like yourself could easily be exempted from the transaction tax with out impacting the massive amount of revenues to be collected.
Not to mention that the big banks have profited handsomely from the Taxpayer, of late, and should be required to do something for the country that bailed their buts out and saved their billions in personal wealth. But instead what we get is head of one of these banks going on TV saying "the American people should not expect to get back what they have paid into Social Security, It's just NOT going to happen."
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"The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law... shall not be questioned"
Drale
Dec 2012
#1
You won't succeed challenging the constitutionally of the debt authorized by law, only
24601
Dec 2012
#42
I say the tax rates have to raise first. After we get the money coming in we can talk
Vincardog
Dec 2012
#4
Plus big time defense cuts in the 100's of billions $ BEFORE any entitlement cut
on point
Dec 2012
#12
Except that the businesses don't pay it - consumers do as part of the total transaction cost.
24601
Dec 2012
#43
So republicans want the Democrats to have all the credit for the middle class tax cut??
thelordofhell
Dec 2012
#8
Yeah sure, give us a situation where we can actually say that we alone helped ease the Middle Class
Mr.Turnip
Dec 2012
#10
Republican Aide: "You don’t take a hostage you aren’t willing to shoot”
Jeff In Milwaukee
Dec 2012
#11
Each additional person doing that reduces the power of anyone else doing it, because if you
patrice
Dec 2012
#28