Time to bring the Robin Hood Tax to America

Even though he's a "conservative" French president Nicholas Sarkozy is pushing for a "Robin Hood Tax" that's infuriating the Banksters. I'll explain what a Robin Hood Tax is, in tonight's Daily Take - & why the U.S must adopt one of its own.

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[niteme]

@luvcheney1 Yeah, so blow it up lets be like China. We can't keep up with the child labor in other countries where they make far less, so instead of bringing EVERYONE up.... just try to lie and manipulate and bring everyone down! If corporations have no places to hire slave labor and I was forced to pay a bit more, most people in the US and around the world will be better off.

Make sure to be insulting too cause I can't think of a finer way to convince others, ya damn psychopath!

[luvcheney1]

@MiserableOldFart You dont go pick fields you lying sack of shit.

[thereau2100]

@MiserableOldFart Now what did I just finish saying...Again?Your not getting it.Hear me!Any change to the tax system we presently have,had in the past or will have in the future ALWAYS hits the middle class &/or the working poor.You speak of tax cuts for the rich,so who then has to take up the slack?Yes, the working poor &/or the middle class.

It's not hard to find revenue.

NATIONALIZE THE BANKS.

CUT ALL FOREIGN AID.

STOP THE WARS.

[MiserableOldFart]

@thereau2100 Utter nonsense on both ends. The bush and raygun tax cuts are the two most destructive economic acts passed in the USA, and they saved the mega-rich trillions, and robbed the country of needed revenue. This is a VERY small tax that is a win-win situation for EVERYONE.

[luvcheney1]

@MiserableOldFart This small tax on securities would make it cheaper to trade on Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges, even London if they dont follow suit. It is living in a "vaccuum", which doesnt exist any more. It will simply make the US less competitive, and already more IPO`s, "initial public offerings" of new stocks are being offerred far more in Pacific region.

[thereau2100]

@MiserableOldFart Any government tax put on business,banks or the rich,dressed up in as many details needed to make it as complicated as possible,but sounding nice & helpful,one way or another,gets passed onto the working poor &/or middle class or...they escape through 1 of their FAKE CHARITIES.

Western nations R already taking in more than enough taxes.The amount of tax monies coming in is not the problem.It's the amount going out & what it's going out to.THAT'S THE PROBLEM!

[MiserableOldFart]

@thereau2100 Not true. If you do it right, you can do it right. Repeal the bush and raygun tax cuts for the rich, and THEN close the loopholes that existed before raygun. End of story. But that's a different issue. THIS tax, a small tax on securities trading - would be huge win for America.

[MiserableOldFart]

@niteme Keep on 'em! This garbage about "the rich work, the rest don't," is psycho babble. I'd like to see some of these loudmouths, starting with blingrich, picking in the fields for a few days and then tell us that the poor people are LAZY.

[MiserableOldFart]

OUTSTANDING!! A small securities trading tax would be a tremendous plus for the economy in so many ways, and he touches on most of them. But of course, you won't hear this in the Amerikkkan corporate media.

[niteme]

@luvcheney1 You don't know me, troll. It's people like you if given the power would keep someone like me down. Proud to pay min-wage and never give overtime out ever! Out of touch loser, it will be history that look down upon people like you.

I'm not lazy I work my ass off at every job. :) But I do it for nothing I I won't be jerked off by losers like you until the day I die :)