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> tax on financial transactions

This is a tax on the middle class. Plenty of countries have stamp taxes on trades, for example. The wealthy structure to avoid a books-and-records trade. The average person can’t do that and so pays.

If you’re upset about the size of finance, just tax that directly.



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