GLENNY J wrote:Actually Vinny, that was a very interesting post. However the underlying principles give argument for a strong liberal viewpoint if you read your post carefully.
The first mistake you assume is that raising new taxes on wall street will empower the citizen.
Understand this one thing. Understand business and state must remain as separate as church and state.
TAXATION only serves a government out of control. You are only proposing we KILL the farmer raising the crops... because if the government taxes the citizen enough... Under the misguided idea that the government can do it better. That is liberal socialist thinking taken to the max.
A sales tax on wall street would hurt every one that has a pension fund dependent on those wall street holdings. "A LOT OF LITTLE GUYS".
Nationalize the FEDERAL RESERVE...
Now I am really having a chuckle...
I read through that whole part of your post Vinny... First the only thing that keeps every dollar in your wallet from being WORTHLESS... At this point in time... Is the federal Reserve. They are busy providing the illusion that every thing is good. It is not. That is why we are paying $3.50 plus a gallon for gas and food prices are through the roof.
That is exactly what we have been doing you dumbassss. LOANING OURSELVES PRINTED VALUELESS MONEY.
Even better yet is the fact that point out the decimated manufacturing in AMERICA...
TAXES , and the greed of every controlling liberal socialist commie that have preyed on the stupidity of people like you that BUY INTO THIS BULLSHHIITT!
Have a good day! 
I think humanity has been slowly evolving toward enlightened individual autonomy to the point, someday, assuming we make it past the present perilous threshold, when there will be no need for any government because there will be greater spontaneous cooperation amongst humans.
In the meantime ... a representative government seems the most effective coordination against the domination of a greedy power mad elite, royal or otherwise.
GLENNY J wrote:... a government out of control.
Yes the government is out of the people's control and is controlled by a private banking elite. Odd that you hate the government, but warmly embrace those who corrupt and control it.
Unlike a previous medieval period, there are now many more educated people amongst the "commons", education was a privilege that was once only enjoyed by the elite. Mr. Brzezinski (adviser to Mr. Rockefeller) describes the "problem" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
Here he hints at a solution to the problem:
"... in early times, it was easier to to control a million people, literally it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million people. It is easier to kill than to control...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usbR_kKCDs
If we nationalize the Federal Reserve
we will not be paying interest to private bankers. We would borrow interest free, issue bonds, against the productivity of the American people, to rebuild our manufacturing base to create REAL goods like we used to do, and pay back the loan to the treasury in 100 years. That would bring real value to our money and we would cease to pay interest to private banks for their fake money.
Wall Street produces NOTHING just manipulation of numbers. Most trading is now done automatically by computer algorithms 100.000 of transactions per second. A fraction of a cent sales tax on each of those will add up to a lot. For an honest investor making a few trades a few cents tax will not even be noticed. High speed speculators, like Goldman-Sachs, accustomed to gaming the system will bitch and moan about it for sure.
Maybe you should be investing your pension in something more honorable than Wall Street speculations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZsXrzF8Cc
"A LOT OF LITTLE GUYS" ... there are many many more "littler guys" with no pension fund on Wall Street or otherwise. While some are considered "Too Big To Fail" apparently many more are regarded as too little to care about.
Glenny, you get so upset when you think someone is stealing from you ... why are you so silent about the
LIBOR case?