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Financial Transaction Tax Explained: Pros and Cons, Forex, High Frequency Trading (2011)

A financial transaction tax is a levy placed on a specific type of monetary transaction for a particular purpose. The concept has been most commonly associated ...

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Word of the Day: Financial Transaction Tax (FTT)

A financial transaction tax is a tax placed on a specific type of financial transaction for a specific purpose. This term has been most commonly associated with the ...

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Howard Roark commented on 07 Dec 2011

evolution is evolution, stop with the political correctness. guys were built over the past 100,000 years to be attracted to good looking females...get over it. Having "respect for smart and financially sound women" represents about the last .0001% of the time that males and females have been interacting. Females respond to protection and safety, males respond to health and beauty.

Armando7654 commented on 06 Dec 2011

When you tax the business sector, the engine of the economy you stifle & kill the economy not revive it & then how we gonna pay off over 14 trillion in debt? MORON 1.00 USD = 31.2325 RUB (Russian currency is worth 31 times less than USD because they implemented Lauren's philosophy of Financial Transaction Tax).

Theuf28 commented on 07 Dec 2011

@verbalswordsman yeah, we probably are all genius like and and, speak/write 3 languages... Im not English and i am not living in a english country....thanks for the stupid comment about gramatical errors... what a dork you are really.

imeanlive commented on 07 Dec 2011

I have been hearing people talk about a TAX REVOLT, what does that word mean? I am pretty hungry and horny for a dog brained man, not quite a Bill Clinton. what does Pussy Property value (PPV) mean, and has that hit a bubble?

0 Subscribers commented on 07 Dec 2011

RT reminds me of CNN. Why not have hosts that do their own news and research? The hosts are all jar heads when it comes to talking about what THEY know.(which is nothing). Like obama reading other peoples scripts.

Armando7654 commented on 07 Dec 2011

@langwaywastheking economy is based on speculation because future is ultimately unknown and to run a successful business one MUST speculate, big deal! What's wrong with speculation, yeah I wanna hear that!

Theuf28 commented on 07 Dec 2011

comment here only shows how stupid most guys are really...low, degrating and immature...Feel bad for lauren, poor girls having to go those retarded comments all day to find like 1 with some sens...lmao

Rayfrom Bowie commented on 06 Dec 2011

@Armando7654 Wall Street speculation has NOTHING to do with improving the economy. How is this worse for the economy than a VAT or regressive payroll & State/Local Income taxes?

fabian sandoval commented on 07 Dec 2011

Have some respect for Women you dumbfucks ....Especially Smart intelligent women like Lauren...I think you are doing a great job Lauren...Educate these morons

Verbal Swordsman commented on 07 Dec 2011

@Theuf28 Haha. The irony. Sense! Lauren! Degrading! Not to mention the poor grammatical errors! Peace out. Lauren's brains match her physical beauty.

Kravis63 commented on 06 Dec 2011

I am never quite so crude, but wow nice outfit! Had to watch the video a second time to pay attention to the word of the day.

Theuf28 commented on 07 Dec 2011

@drivebye13 what the fuck are you talking about.. like I dont know that already... its a way of putting it, thats all...

vladamirrrr commented on 06 Dec 2011

lauren, marry me and run off in the woods and make babies and lead a simple and happy life in harmony with the nature?

Benwoodruff commented on 07 Dec 2011

Why don't we have it? Because it causes friction in financial markets which means there will be less efficiency.

DforDIckhead2100 commented on 07 Dec 2011

Word of the day: This skanky cunt deserves a good raping up the ass by her kremlin commissars

FixedByDoc OffGrid commented on 06 Dec 2011

word of the day "global depopulation necessity"... this will reduce the need for more taxes.

enginekid88 commented on 06 Dec 2011

She [lauren?] should dress up like a christmas elf. she would make a cute little elf.

tacluvstoons commented on 06 Dec 2011

Since when does giving our govt more money lead to jobs for people? Yup never.

SeKToR commented on 07 Dec 2011

@mrebel818 i bet she did a couple of good "jobs" to get that job

ValentinO Black commented on 07 Dec 2011

@fallenempireoverdrve and also playbacks himself, good story bro.

CrazyEddi3 commented on 07 Dec 2011

I just hope Lauren reads these comments not phased, she's great!

drivebye13 commented on 07 Dec 2011

Oh baby how you love to wear them skanky skirts bend over baby!

Verbal Swordsman commented on 07 Dec 2011

@Theuf28 Better to be a dork than a monkeys vagina!

drivebye13 commented on 07 Dec 2011

Theuf lmao like she reads this lmao your so eragant

MrHabs1993 commented on 07 Dec 2011

what the fuck is up with you tubes comment errors

AllianceOfJerkOffs commented on 07 Dec 2011

Word of the day: No tits on the RT/kremlin whore

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Why a Financial Transaction Tax?

Sarah Anderson: 0.25% tax on financial transactions could raise $150 billion a year in the US alone.

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tro101ol commented on 04 Jan 2012

Paul asks in the intro "how is all of this going to be paid for?" This is a false framing of the issue. A gov't with a sovereign currency has no problems "paying for" things. The only concern with gov't spending is causing inflation, not lack of revenue. Taxes destroy money. Gov't spending creates it. That said, a Wall St trading tax seems like one good way to deal with economic rent-seeking. Excise or higher property taxes could be other options to combat the rentiers and wealth disparity.

infiltr80r commented on 06 Mar 2012

@slobomotion In the past 20 years there was NO transaction tax. Ever wonder why the rich French people all move to Monaco and other tax free spots? France was a colonial superpower and by stealing from people around the world they built their wealth reserves (same goes for Britain, Netherlands, Spain and some others). Explain to me how a tax that was supposed to apply to large banks excluded them altogether, Sarkozy directly lied to the people and now you're applauding that.

whoo689 commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS Sure as hell won't be FINANCIAL FREEDOM, for one thing! Besides, isn't supposedly sacrificing "liberty" in this case worth it to make sure that folks who bust their asses but still can barely make ends meet actually don't go to the poorhouse and have REAL chances at the same opportunities a lot of middle-class and rich folks have a noble goal? WHO ELSE IS GONNA PICK UP THE SLACK? The "free market" sure as fuck won't provide those opps. on its own.

slobomotion commented on 06 Mar 2012

@infiltr80r I detest Sarkozy. I was invited to the Palace in 2010, passed security (took weeks) and at the front door said NO and walked away. I hope he got the message! I worked briefly for Chirac and it made me SICK. Many rich French do not actually MOVE to tax havens, they stay in France and get citizenships there (Monaco is very hard, Switzerland doable if you have a lot of money.) France has a lot wrong with it, past and present. I am American-born, by the way.

whoo689 commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS Your definition of "liberty" is pro-business robber baron shill bullshit from the pre-New Deal era. It's a DISTORTED definition that makes absolutely no sense unless you're rich (to an extent). I don't know HOW you can say with a straight face that, say, eliminating UI for workers who just got laid off but still are hard-working and want to find a replacement job but need some income to tide them over in the meantime will "increase freedom."

whoo689 commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS And no, they're not "dependent" by a LONG SHOT. The REAL FACTS on most recipients of American welfare programs show that the vast majority of them ARE hard-working Americans who have jobs or want jobs but still have trouble getting by because of not being able to get a decent education or lack of good jobs in the area, for example. You guys have developed an awfully WEIRD and misinformed view about WHO actually uses these benefits. Why?

sinekonata commented on 04 Jan 2012

In my opinion if this tax is that low compared to how it would affect the productivity of a country it is solely due to the opposition from the so powerful parasites that benefit from this without producing anything... Any real producer would also be affected of course but it would mostly be rewarded by the stable and growing economy's benefits... So yes, to me there is no other reason to tax so low than the fact that we let the powerful enforce that on us.

slobomotion commented on 05 Jan 2012

@sk8tafrnk I've had so many American visitors over here who needed to see a doctor, to renew their meds, to see a dentist, to get glasses, and when I took them and they saw how cheap it is and how good the care is, they were stupefied. All their "anti-socialism" sentiments flew out the window. I live in the birthplace of Communism and our services are fantastic. Culture, social workers to sort things out for you, it's all free. In a manner of speaking.

whoo689 commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS Go back to the 19th Century with your outdated, silly libertarian bullshit that's never been proven to work, esp. in 2011. Your "solutions" are defeatist nonsense. Rolling back government everywhere because you think it "doesn't work" is NOT a solution! Finding innovative ways to make government MORE EFFICIENT on issues like social insurance IS the way to go. ;) Libertarianism is too simplistic. The talking points are such bs.

slobomotion commented on 06 Jan 2012

@hunden8404 My husband's family were low-level nobles but back in the late 15th century said screw it. They were tired of paying fealty and being marched off to war. They carried on in Brittany, France as mere farmers and have been ever since. There are two other families in that region who did the same thing. They just said screw it and paid a fee to get out of that mess. Good for them. They just wanted to till the land and not be pawns.

whoo689 commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS ...Can someone explain to me how decreasing social safety nets for people who are just barely getting by (esp. for EXPENSIVE shit like healthcare when they have preexisting conditions) but work their asses off in 2 or 3 jobs a day just to afford basic necessities is "more freedom"? How GUTTING programs like Medicare and SS to make sure that the poor don't go into poverty and can retire securely is "more liberty"?

edicccc commented on 03 Jun 2012

we all know these bankers make too much money. Now these blonde bitch fools come up with a way to punish them: a FTT. But what the fools do not understand is that the FTT is just propaganda put out there by the bankers themselves. A FTT will put a small trader out of business, will tax the tax payer even more and the bankers will just get richer. Go ahead you dumb blonde bitches, Go change the world where your bird brain leads u to.

boneyd commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS Less, less less... I agree you definitely need less military spending, but less taxes? What's going to pay for police, fire, roads, water pipes, sewage, postal services, etc., etc? This is what government is FOR. People aren't all just going to magically be great to each other because government (bought or otherwise) is suddenly gone. There needs to be smart, representative government and the rule of law upheld.

edicccc commented on 03 Jun 2012

fools! a FTT is just what the banks want. Trading is a zero sum game. No money is made here. The money is made when these banks print money for an IPO for instance. People are so stupid. They make the dumb fools ask for a FTT (just like they asked to invade Iraq while the US attacked the WTC themselves) while the trading is not the problem and WORSE! a FTT is a tax on the pensions of the tax payers. What a dumb bitch. Blonde ofcourse

sk8tafrnk commented on 05 Jan 2012

@slobomotion People in the U.S. just have no idea what's going on. Like in France, your economic system is more controlled by the people. You guys have seen this in action so you know it works. In the U.S., plenty of people think that a more socialist government is going to turn us into Nazi Germany haha. Even though that's more so the path we're traveling down now. Nobody in the U.S. bothers reading things for themselves

justjulie37 commented on 04 Jan 2012

I seriously don't see the problem. This sounds like a great idea to me. Unfortunately America is a bunch of greedy assholes that are bought by all the forces that the occupy movement is fighting against. As long as there is too much money in politics, then we will never be less corrupt. This sounds like a tiny little tax to me and yet they just won't tax the wealthy one little bit to help the economy. it's disgusting !

slobomotion commented on 08 Jan 2012

@Waterfall714 Well, France has been a real eye-opener for me. I used to have a really Anglo-Saxon point of view which was very narrow, I now realize. In the USA in the past, the rich felt happy to pay up to 90% in taxes. My first husband, Mr. KMart, was proud to be in the 50% tax bracket and was upset when Reagan got elected. They still got plenty rich and kept most of it even with high taxation. Americans forget this!

slobomotion commented on 05 Jan 2012

@sk8tafrnk Of course spending and borrowing have to be reduced and then taxes have to be raised, and if you crush the middle class no one is going to benefit. I'm American and often get very bugged by the French (and Europeans) but they seem often way more mature than Americans. People tend to be really calm over here, too. I dunno what all these stories are about panic over here but I just don't see that.

colourmegone commented on 04 Jan 2012

@StraussBR "capital flight" It's nice to know exactly how patriotic the financial institutions really are. They support politicians who tell the public that it's their patriotic duty to risk life and limb in foreign wars but when it comes to paying a quarter of penny on the dollar in tax they all threaten to flee the country taking their ill gotten gains with them.

Bhikshuni Lozang Trinlae commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS US Banks and Corporations are sitting on tens of trillions of dollars, while over 40 million Americans live below the poverty level. Yet Bank of American Corporation offloaded another 40+trillion on to American taxpayers by transferring its toxic assets to FDIC insured bank susidiaries. So much for the FREE MARKET race to the bottom!

infiltr80r commented on 06 Mar 2012

I'm a trader. I already pay tax on income, dividends + the SEC fee which is on every transaction. I pay data fees and brokerage commissions too, with this tax I wouldn't pay any of that as it would put me out of business - some brokerage worker would have to take a pay cut because of losing my business, you never thought of that I bet.

LordOrlock commented on 04 Jan 2012

@whoo689 To answer your 'Why', its our MAINSTREAM MEDIA. Not just FAUX NEWS, but ALL of them. The BANKS are the OWNERS of the MEDIA, and use the MEDIA to keep the american middle class IN THE DARK and MISINFORMED. This is a corporatist CONSPIRACY, but noone seems to notice nor care.

whoo689 commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS Is it because if you DO admit that most people who make use of these programs AREN'T "poor, lazy, dependent bums", as you might refer to them, then you'll have to admit that these programs DO serve a purpose, and that the "free market" doesn't always work??

Bhikshuni Lozang Trinlae commented on 04 Jan 2012

Okay....let's see if I got this right: Obama is a leadership failure for successful economics at home in the USA, so he sends a pimp abroad representing toxic financial business to wish others well to protect themselves from catching and spreading American economics AIDS?

whoo689 commented on 04 Jan 2012

@WhatsReallyGoingOnUS Besides, the American welfare state is pretty meager, esp. compared to the rest of the world. Benefits really aren't THAT generous here, but you morons act like people can VACATION on unemployment and sit around the house all day. WRONG

Kevin Carter commented on 14 Jan 2012

0.25% seems excessive. That's almost double the total brokerage fees and commissions I pay (0.1359%) as a small ($10,000 total stocks) investor. It's likely ten times more than what "real" investors pay. Something around 0.01% would be more reasonable.

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