Question for liberals....

[Corruptbuddha]

...would Obama support a Wall Street transaction tax?

Advocates of a tiny but lucrative tax on financial transactions are increasingly hopeful that President Barack Obama's need to more firmly establish himself as the Main Street candidate in 2012 will lead him to back the measure.

I think, to win the left back, he might say he's for it, but would only be giving lip service to the idea. After all, he does collect a shit-ton of money from Wall Street.

What say you?

 

[Lukey]

I think you can rest assured that he will come out in favor of it, just not til after the November election. Those Wall Street rocket scientists will never see it coming...

 

[solutions4]

It would be in his best interest to.

 

[gabriel]

it would be better to levy the tax on income

 

[fairsheet]

A Wall Street transactions tax, makes perfect sense - from the most "librul", to the most "conservative" perspective. It's REALLY difficult to argue against this one, from any sort of rational perspective. So yes...I imagine Obama would support it.

In FACT, if I were Candidate-Mitt, I'd count on the Obama/Democrats proposing something like this, in the months to come. It's gonna be the Mitt-shits, for him to have to shout in opposition.