2016 Postmortem
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by Sam Sedermerrily
(45,251 posts)(1) Blow Wolf Blitzer away
and
(2) realize that free tuition in state institutions is about as revolutionary as providing free high school was when that happened.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)global1
(25,253 posts)He is attempting to taint the minds of the 99%'ers - that it is their taxes that will go up.
When Bernie talks about a tax on Wall St speculation - he's talking about the millions upon millions of split second trades that go on in the market by the big Wall St. companies on an on-going basis. They are making money on very minute market changes every millisecond. These Wall St. companies have the jump on the common investor and this is another way that the system is rigged against the common folk.
If Wall St. insists on continuing this system - then they should pay for their corrupting the system. Maybe if they knew it was going to cost them money they would think twice about doing this - or at least cut back.
The average day trader sitting at home by his/her computer - watching the market and thinking that they have beat the system - is beaten themselves before they ever get to their keyboard.
Like Bernie says - the system is rigged. Wall St. and the stock market is that big casino in the sky - where fleecing is the modus operandi. We're all subject to the whims of Wall St. The market turns on rumor and innuendo and the common investor is at their mercy.