Reply #20: Thanks. It'd be nice if we could put the "ownership class" on the defensive, for a change.

[TahitiNut]

Rather than fending off their assaults on working people, I wish we could get our (or are they 'theirs'?) Senators and Representatives to propose such an "equity transfer tax" to subsidize the costs of regulation and enforcement of equity ownership entitlements and offset the extensive costs of WTO, trade 'missions,' and other activities currently undertaken by the federal government on behalf of global corporatism.

There's little question in my mind that investment bankers would swallow their tongues at the prospect of their "free ride" on the backs of ordinary citizens coming to an end.