If Biden wins, is a Stock Transaction Tax likely?

Discussion in 'Taxes and Accounting' started by jonnysharp, Oct 27, 2020.

  1. Sig

    Sig

    I can't help but notice you spent 2 paragraphs avoiding the very simple question of what you hoped to accomplish with calling Senator Harris a b****. Do you not know, or is the question too uncomfortable for you to confront? You've accomplished nothing, as I pointed out, except to make everyone here who isn't a bigot think less of you. Is that what you were trying to accomplish? If not, then what?
     
    #61     Oct 29, 2020
  2. JSOP

    JSOP

    You could sense my blood pressure from so far away??!! :wtf: And if you want to help with my blood pressure, you need to be more specific in your comments. :)
     
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    #62     Oct 29, 2020
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  3. JSOP

    JSOP

    Informing people of who she is, a hypocrite, a b**** and that she is as big of a bigot as anyone else and even a bigger one, but a better-disguised one. That's my purpose. And besides who says I have to always accomplish something by stating my views? Is that the new criteria for stating one's opinion? Has the Constitutional right of Free Speech been changed? Gosh, she's not in office yet and she has already changed the Constitution??!! :wtf:

    Like I said, I really don't care what you think of me. Don't try to use this "putting somebody on higher pedestal" trick to make people shut up. It won't work. Again, I am SPEAKING!!! :)
     
    #63     Oct 29, 2020
  4. Sig

    Sig

    Just so we're clear then, you're doing the old man yelling at clouds thing. Definitely free to do it, most people just think its a bit daft at best if you accomplish nothing by doing so.

    If hypocrisy is your criteria for applying the b*** moniker I look forward to you applying it every time you refer to Senator McConnell ("Given that we are in the midst of the presidential election process, we believe that the American people should seize the opportunity to weigh in on whom they trust to nominate the next person for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court," they conclude. "It is today the American people, rather than a lame-duck president whose priorities and policies they just rejected in the most-recent national election, who should be afforded the opportunity to replace Justice Scalia."), Senator Graham ("I want you to use my words against me, if there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."), and of course President Trump (too many to list, but let's just go with "The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy." followed by "The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play." We could go on and on with this, but somehow I think you don't really plan to call anyone a b**** who isn't a woman, regardless of hypocrisy situation.
     
    #64     Oct 29, 2020
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  5. gkishot

    gkishot

    Any "elite trader" who will vote for Biden is a classic hypocrite in my book. Right under our nose.
     
    #65     Oct 29, 2020
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  6. JSOP

    JSOP

    Because they are not. I will never call Michelle Obama a b****. And I wouldn't even call Hillary one either despite the fact that I don't like her to be the president too. But Harris is a b****. She is a fake and she's a b**** whether you like it or not. Again, I am SPEAKING!!!
     
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    #66     Oct 29, 2020
  7. Sig

    Sig

    I think that word "hypocrisy" does not mean what you think it means, speaking man.
     
    #67     Oct 29, 2020
  8. JSOP

    JSOP

    I didn't know there are so many multiple definitions of the word "hypocrite". I thought somebody like Harris being fake and doing one thing while saying another would qualify. I guess I was wrong. LOL
     
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    #68     Oct 29, 2020
  9. ajcrshr

    ajcrshr

    FTT is certainly the greatest threat to anyone involved in trading. If they instituted it for all participants it would eliminate most of the HFT and trader volume leading to large spreads and terrible fills for retirements/pensions/longterm investors. If they exempt HFT/market makers then it really would just be a regressive tax on smaller traders. Either way it would be extremely devastating for retail trading. If the retail brokers were smart they would form some kind of coalition as soon as possible to lobby strongly against any FTT.
     
    #69     Oct 31, 2020
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  10. JSOP

    JSOP

    And it's so senseless to tax a group of traders who are the least profitable and pretty much the only industry that's making money and is not being taken over by China. The b****'s gotta go!
     
    #70     Oct 31, 2020