On Friday, February 13, U.S. Congressman Peter DeFazio, introduced H.R. 1068: "Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street's Bailout Act of 2009", which aims to impose a 0.25% transaction tax on the "sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stock, options, and futures." The body of the bill suggests that such a tax would have a negligible impact on the average investor. I beg to differ. For example, a $10,000 trade (or approximately 100 shares of stock in Apple, Inc.) would increase the cost of a round trip transaction by $50. 100 shares is generally considered to be a minimum size for a trade, which would devastate any small business executing even a handful of similar trades each day. Would you still like to have a future trading? Please forward this message to anyone who will read it and go to this site and sign the petition against H.R. 1068. http://www.rallycongress.com/no2tradertax/1536/ JOHN