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Bernie has a great proposal to tax these transactions, and fund some wonderful social programs with the money.
by MarkMarine 3y ago
Bernie has a great proposal to tax these transactions, and fund some wonderful social programs with the money.
- PoignardAzur 3y ago> and fund some wonderful social programs with the money. That's silly. The whole point is they're a zero-sum game with semiconductor-thin margins. Any meaningful taxation will make them evaporate. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be taxed! But it would be a pigovian tax, the kind that serves as a soft interdiction and not as government income.