Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (447073)	1/13/2009 10:25:44 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576164

"This would impose a small fee — ranging up to, say, 0.25 percent — on the sale or transfer of stocks, bonds and other financial assets, including the seemingly endless variety of exotic financial instruments that have been in the news so much lately." I think it's a great idea. It might steer people back into investing rather than trading and speculating - which profits no one but the trader or speculator. Also, the fact that NOT paying the fee would be illegal would serve to make all financial transactions public, where they could be tracked and monitored.