1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

Discussion in 'Taxes and Accounting' started by seasideheights, Jan 13, 2009.

  1. onefocus

    onefocus

    how about a "wealth tax"? an asset tax....just one time to help pay the deficit?

    if you have the money 'cause you made the money in the past, then pay some out to help the US deficit....makes sense to me (for real)
     
    #5071     Jan 21, 2010
  2. gkishot

    gkishot

    Anything is possible under socialism, including expropriation and confiscation.
     
    #5072     Jan 21, 2010
  3. onefocus

    onefocus

    Agreed gk...

    The more attempts to orchestrate such a complex thing as a national economy (especially US or other developed nation) the wronger it goes. Look at the tax code, a bumbled mess that only lawyers and accountants can figure out (more uselessness, right?). Just scrap the whole thing and start over instead of making it a patchwork mess. A patchwork quilt can be nice, but not a patchwork tax code (or country for that matter).

    Let the "Guiding Hand" sort it out for the most part!
     
    #5073     Jan 21, 2010
  4. yes, traders (speculators) are parasites.
     
    #5074     Jan 21, 2010
  5. gkishot

    gkishot

    No, they are hard working worms. As the soil needs the worms churning it the markets need the traders.
     
    #5075     Jan 21, 2010
  6. benwm

    benwm

    Ewan MacGregor said speculators are vultures. So now we have parasites, worms and vultures...any more?!
     
    #5076     Jan 21, 2010
  7. onefocus

    onefocus

    that's great gkishot!

    hard working worms, exactly!

    the worms aren't in it so that the grass grows green, they are in it for themselves but the grass takes advantage of the worms and grows greener and healthier for it, the grass sees the worms as annoying and useless because they keep bothering their roots and wish they were gone, people see the grass and think how beautiful and green, paying no mind to the worms who till the soil....they do pay mind to the worms for fishing though, then they are happy that the worms exist!
     
    #5077     Jan 21, 2010
  8. onefocus

    onefocus

    vultures, maybe, let nature work the way it ought to work...nobody likes the vultures, screw them....vultures serve a purpose, worms serve a purpose, parasites serve a purpose, and even if they DIDN'T THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST, try to tinker with nature and it's plain to see what happens
     
    #5078     Jan 21, 2010
  9. onefocus

    onefocus

    Ewan MacGregor, acting, that serves a purpose, lol

    Filthy rich from acting, seems like it ought to be banned!
     
    #5079     Jan 21, 2010
  10. gkishot

    gkishot

    Exactly, even vultures serve a purpose.
     
    #5080     Jan 21, 2010