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GoLeft TV

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Thu Jul 16, 2015, 03:30 PM Jul 2015

The Simple Solution to Stop Bloodsucking Bankers

For years, many progressives have sought after the notion of a financial transactions tax, which would put a sales tax on many of the backroom deals made by the banksters on Wall Street. If this idea was to come to fruition, what would the risk be?

The truth is that there is no risk. It can only help the economy, and will force the predatory Wall Street billionaires to think before they act.

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.

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The Simple Solution to Stop Bloodsucking Bankers (Original Post) GoLeft TV Jul 2015 OP
This Is the Best Solution, and Bernie Knows This, panfluteman Jul 2015 #1

panfluteman

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1. This Is the Best Solution, and Bernie Knows This,
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 01:14 AM
Jul 2015

But the devil is in its political implementation, against a sea of Wall Street lobbyists and their whores in congress.

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