Financial Transactions Tax

[earthtodan]

I think taxing short term trades would be fine, since it's essentially gambling. The government may be a poor spender but part of the reason for that is the continuous lack of funding of education. So if the proposal is to have the government funnel the money straight into education, great, I see nothing to oppose on the face of it. Poor use of our tax dollars in general is a tangential argument. Funding education is one of the smartest uses of public money. Steve Jobs used to complain to the president about how American schools are not producing enough skilled workers, forcing him to hire from overseas. Here is someone trying to address the problem.

There's nothing socialist about publicly funded education; it's foundational to American prosperity and I would not want to live in a country without it.