[Stock Transfer Tax]
The tax, which is a sales tax on stock trades, is assessed, collected and rebated to the brokers who paid it. The tax has been levied on stock trades since 1905, but only since 1981 has the tax been fully rebated to Wall Street.
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Wall Street
Coalition to Albany: Reinstate Stock Transfer Tax on Wall Street
Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Bill Enabling Creation of Public Banks
[Public Banking Act]
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez: “I am proud to partner with Rep. Tlaib on this monumental bill. Public banks are uniquely able to address the economic inequality and structural racism exacerbated by the banking industry’s discriminatory policies and predatory practices.”
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CEO: Wall Street Discounted Me Because of My Black Skin
[Eddie C. Brown\Brown Capital Management]
Brown: “I founded Brown Capital Management in Baltimore, which now employs predominantly African-American professionals…no amount of wealth, education or prestige has distracted me from the discrimination, prejudice and segregation of opportunity.”
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INCOMPETENCY OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY HAS CAUSED OVER 100,000 AMERICAN COVID-19 DEATHS
[COVID-19\Incompetency of Trump Presidency]
Wim Laven: “Trump’s pattern of delay, deflection, dishonesty, and distraction has produced many utterly unnecessary deaths of Americans—we have by far the largest number of deaths from this plague, more than 102,000 out of 354,000 worldwide.”
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