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flotsam

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1. Complete horseshit-"even a modest financial transaction tax could cost the typical retiree $20,000"

Reply to mia (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2020, 05:39 PM

Jan 2020

If there were a 1% tax on stock trades and you trade $2 million a year, you ain't farming squash-you are either a day trader or rich. That would be $5,480 dollars a day in trades.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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The Democrats shouldn't try to balance costly social programs on the backs of rural Americans [View all] mia Jan 2020 OP

Complete horseshit-"even a modest financial transaction tax could cost the typical retiree $20,000" flotsam Jan 2020 #1

The proposals I've seen are a fraction of a per cent. Voltaire2 Jan 2020 #7

For $20K, 1 cent/transaction requires 2,000,000 transactions (1c/share requires 2M traded shares) LonePirate Jan 2020 #2

More bullshit FUD. aidbo Jan 2020 #3

A lot of those rural americans depend on those programs booley Jan 2020 #4

Don't worry we won't since it's the cities and towns which are blue which fund this damn country. nt UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #5

I'm extremely skeptical of this KayF Jan 2020 #6

So tired of the fetishization of rural Americans StarfishSaver Jan 2020 #8

The four of them far outweigh the millions of us, dontcha know n/t Blaukraut Jan 2020 #9

What on earth is this? BlueMTexpat Jan 2020 #10