"Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street's Bailout Act of 2009" http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1068.IH: Estimate the costs to your trades with a total 0.5% tax to each trade (in & out). Whom of us could continue to trade with such a large tax per trade?
Here's links to three other threads on the same topic: Transaction Tax Bill has now been introduced 1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today **ATTENTION** Transaction Tax