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Showing Original Post only (View all)Tax Wall Street Party more than double the needed signatures to become offical party on NYC ballot! [View all]
Tax Wall Street Party more than double the needed signatures to become offical party on NYC ballot!Show your support and please recommend; this is important stuff.
Outraged voters in New York City will have a new option in this years NYC mayoral elections. The Tax Wall Street party for Randy Credico has gained 9,000 petition signatures from a mostly volunteer campaign base which is more than enough to be on the mayoral ballot.
Most candidates for NYC mayor bear a resemblence to Mayor Bloomberg, who is infamous for his many controlling laws on city denizens. However, there is a realistic platform pushed by the supressed candidate Randy Credico on the Tax Wall Street Party ticket that most definately apeals to the cries for justice.
The justice isn't just for social causes though. Credico has made clear that he wants to end stop and frisk on his first day in office, but what else does he offer that makes him a rising star? The answer is economics. Specifically, economic justice for the city as a whole. Credico demands a refurbished free transit system, free rehab to quell the city's drug problems, a city-wide New Deal job program, free higher education, a $ 12.50 living wage, rent control, protection of small business from landlords, moratoriums on foreclosures, and the list goes on. With a set of demands that appeal to the population in the Big Apple that are so often left to a bleak lower-class life, Credico is sure to be an important contestant for the real working class of New York.
Although, Credico's platform is hopeful, vociferous Republicans and cynical Democrats will catechize New York's Man with the question of how he possibly expects to pay for all of this idealist's dream. These tired politicians will attempt to incite the middle-class with claims that Credico wants to raise their taxes, run the city into debt, or create a new Detroit. But like a grand slam out of Citi Field, Credico will retort with a crack that the only reason New York City would run out of money is because the current tax policy is to refund all money collected from Wall Street as continued by Bloomberg.
Wall Street moves over four quadrillion dollars a year and current tax rates in NYC generate billions of dollars. Credico proposes that to make up for more than three decades of refunds, that Wall Street should pay a rate of 0.5% on buying of all stock, bond and derivatives. The obvious reason for this policy is to generate revenue that should have always been in the city treasury, the second reason accepted by even some Wall Street bankers is that such a tax will combat the rather deceptive practices of flash trading and other equally malicious rat races.
Clearly, Credico will be accepted by the populous, but whether they vote for him will be decided on the Tax Wall Street Party's ability to break through the stumbling blocks of the New York Democratic political machine, the media, and the Wall Street special interests that are trying to keep New York's Man, Rany Credico in completely obscurity.
Regardless, the Tax Wall Street Party unlike the Democratic party and most unlike Occupy Wall Street have a firm, long-term plan to bring economic prosperity back to the middle class. A nationwide mobilization of Credico's newborn revolutionary party has already begun and when the middle-class discovers the party, in whatever pocket of the nation, they are going to be just as willful as the New York people to support this necessary change.
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Please,
If you are in the NYC area spread the message that Credico is legit; he is different from past candidates like the Rent is Too Damn High guy because he actually has a platform and he is known on the street for his dedication to social and economic justice. Do not kid yourself that you are going to hurt Wall Street, they seem to survive every recession they cause when they end up killing other sectors of the economy. Do not kid yourself that the will of the people of New York City is not that of Credico, for Credico stands a realistic chance among the entire middle-class that is tired of business as usually politicians! Do not vote for any other candidate! No other candidate has your interests in mind!
This is the realistic choice and low hanging fruit. It takes less work than trying to lead a horse to water and making him drink or trying to lead a Bloomberg clone to reason and making him apply it. Remember to keep the pesimism of the intellect but the optimism of the WILL! RANDY CREDICO for NYC Mayor, TAX WALL STREET PARTY 2013!
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Tax Wall Street Party more than double the needed signatures to become offical party on NYC ballot! [View all]
Vic Vinegar
Aug 2013
OP
Since such a tax would only be in effect in NYC, why wouldn't most of the companies just move to NJ
PoliticAverse
Aug 2013
#1
As NYC real estate ha increased in price many financial firms have already moved to cheaper areas...
PoliticAverse
Aug 2013
#5
The High Frequency Traders (computers) need to be close to the stock market servers
NutmegYankee
Aug 2013
#10
I trust you'll you'll be content with your principled vote after the Primary...
brooklynite
Aug 2013
#20
He can't run on the Democratic Party line...because he won't win the Democratic Party line
brooklynite
Aug 2013
#23