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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:38 AM link Eve W. | Tualatin, OR
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:31 AM link Name not displayed | Livingston, NJ
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:22 AM link Daniel W. | Lake Mary, FL
I and many day traders make our living by trading. This tax will be a burden to us and we did not create this mess.Please vote NO.
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:21 AM link Alan K. | Milwaukee, WI
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:21 AM link Deanne B. | Sarasota, FL
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:20 AM link Name not displayed | Saint Charles, MO
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:20 AM link Name not displayed | Jersey City, NJ
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:09 AM link Mary Lou C. | Irvington, VA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:08 AM link bruce l. | Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:04 AM link Jeanne C. Rose 1. | Tucson, AZ
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 9:00 AM link David S. | ,
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:55 AM link timothy f. | Stow, OH
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:49 AM link Tony G. | Newburgh, NY
Congress is nothing more than a bunch of pigs.
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:49 AM link Javan M. | Chester, NY
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:42 AM link Name not displayed | Atlanta, GA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:35 AM link Tim R. | Burlington, VT
I don't think it will pass - I hope it doesn't. This is short-sighted bigotry built on the implicit assumption that capitalism is evil, and those who engage in it are evil people who should have their money taken away and given to the proletariat.

It is built around the absurd mid twentieth century stereotype of the fat-cat cigar-smoking, amoral banker-capitalist, building fortunes of the sweat and tears of the common man. It has nothing to do with reality, modern finance, or any kind of payback for the failings of wall street. It would be a financial disaster, plain and simple.

If it actually passed the result would likely be a national exodus of financial firms, profit centers, and corporate entities out of he United States to whatever country was interested in adding them to their tax base. Simply - Leave the United States or go out of business.
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:29 AM link pamela w. | Spring, TX
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:28 AM link donald c. | Savannah, GA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:22 AM link Fernando V. | Jamison, PA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:15 AM link Wayne H. | Phippsburg, ME
Just another nail in Capitalism's coffin!
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:11 AM link Name not displayed | Jamestown, NC
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:06 AM link debbie z. | New York, NY
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:04 AM link Neil M. | Jacksonville, FL
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 8:01 AM link Name not displayed | Naples, FL
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:58 AM link Danette H. | Kernersville, NC
Vote NO on HR 1068! This will discourage people from investing at all! The only thing it would encourage is for more and more people to be dependent on the government for all aspects of their life!
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:58 AM link David S. | Metairie, LA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:57 AM link Name not displayed | Naples, FL
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:57 AM link Name not displayed | Canton, MA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:47 AM link Name not displayed | Huntington, NY
we are losing our world wide dominance in trading US> stocks because there is no central market place to see the stock trade and the fragmentation has caused our stocks to be traded anywhere this would certainly enhance that condition even more
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:46 AM link Name not displayed | New York, NY
this will inhibit business done in the US and force investors and traders to go overseas for trades ultimately destroying what is best about US business... its transparency.
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:45 AM link Name not displayed | Front Royal, VA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:45 AM link gerald p. | Huntington, NY
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:45 AM link Name not displayed | Columbus, IN
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:43 AM link james W. | Highland Beach, FL
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:29 AM link Name not displayed | New York, NY
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:19 AM link Omar B. | Brooklyn, NY
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:16 AM link Name not displayed | East Hampton, NY
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:14 AM link Patrick M. | Mena, AR
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:12 AM link Peter K. | Harrison, NY
This bill would have a serious negative effect on our capital markets.
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:11 AM link Anne . | South Orange, NJ
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 7:04 AM link James F. | Powell, OH
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 6:57 AM link Name not displayed | Morristown, NJ
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 6:54 AM link Bartholomew N. | Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 6:54 AM link Tom J. | Ames, IA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 6:08 AM link Davis M. | Norwalk, CT
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 5:51 AM link Nicholas S. | Knoxville, TN
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 5:42 AM link Charles N. | Arlington, TX
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 5:26 AM link Edward B. | Oakdale, CT
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 1:42 AM link Name not displayed | Brea, CA
I am a small trader with a small account. I make several trades per day in order to earn a few hundred dollars per day. This tax would consume that profit and force me to quit this business.
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 1:35 AM link Name not displayed | Port Ludlow, WA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 1:20 AM link Name not displayed | Pacifica, CA
You must be crazy to support a bill like H.R. 1068. It is a bad bill.
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 1:17 AM link Paul R. | Tustin, CA
Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 1:15 AM link William B. | Indianapolis, IN
No new taxes!!
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 12:21 AM link Name not displayed | Decatur, GA
I am just learning to trade right now in hopes of having more saved for retirement. HR 1068 would work against my simple goals of becoming a bit more financially secure and that of many, many other individual traders. Triple taxation -- buy tax, sell tax, and capital gains tax (if I earn a gain) or plus a loss (if I don't earn a gain) -- would be exceedingly unfair!!!!!
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 12:15 AM link Eric M. | Dallas, GA
Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 11:59 PM link Jim M. | Amityville, NY
Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 11:42 PM link Name not displayed | Santa Monica, CA
Just another way for our government to 'tax' all Americans but claim its an attack on those who helped us into this problem. A load of rubbish...but the media will help perpetuate this idea to the masses and that its 'payback' time on the wealthy to make up for all their past greed. Give me a break. How about starting in DC and cleaning up there first?
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Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 11:04 PM link Name not displayed | Charlotte, NC
Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 11:02 PM link Nancy C. | New York, NY
Please do not punish the NYSE with this
ridiculous bill. If you think that the
market won't take a hit,then you have no
clue about the world of finance. You will
be punishing everyone who goes into the
market and will intimidate people that are
not in the market to enter as a potential
stockholder.
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Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 10:59 PM link Matthew C. | Tappan, NY
Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 10:56 PM link Sheila C. | Tappan, NY
This has to be stopped or it will be another
reason the stock market will take a dive.
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Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 10:56 PM link Paul S. | Pearl City, HI
I urge you to vote no!. you're killing the stock market as we speak and you want this?
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Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 10:53 PM link Name not displayed | Panaca, NV
Passage of this bill will be remembered at election time, by thousands of small investors like me. And their families.
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Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 10:45 PM link Name not displayed | Lincoln, NE
Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 10:43 PM link Eric L. | Bloomington, MN
This increase in taxes would crush my livelihood as an independent trader.
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Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 8:48 PM link Cory R. | Cherry Hill, NJ
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Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 8:27 PM link Pam A. | Evergreen, CO
Tue., Mar. 10, 2009 8:27 PM link Mark G. | Eugene, OR
Hey Congressman DeFazio,

You voted for all these bailouts and stimulus nonsense. Your votes have already put the American people on the hook - despite their protests. We didn't want to bail out Wall Street, but you did. So how about you and your colleagues who voted for the bailout foot the bill out of your own salaries. I'll be more receptive to your antics if you lead by example. While you're at it, why don't you introduce a bill that would put members of Congress into the Social Security system, make members of Congress subject to the laws they make, and eliminate earmarks. If you're really feeling like a patriot, you could expose Social Security as the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, introduce legislation to make the federal government follow the same accounting rules that it makes corporations follow, and support the passage of H.R. 25 (Fair Tax). Quit nickel and diming us in your effort to further stoke class warfare.

Respectfully,
A True Patriot
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