[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Tell Congressman Huffman to Tax Wall Street]

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Subject: Tell Congressman Huffman to Tax Wall Street
From:    "Wodetzki Tom" <tw at mcn.org>
Date:    Mon, April 15, 2013 12:03 pm
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Subject: Tell Congress: Tax Wall Street

Dear Friend,

When Wall Street greed crashed our economy, it blew a hole in the budget.
Government revenue plummeted just as demand for services increased.

And today, even as most of us continue to deal with the fallout of the
economic collapse, Wall Street firms continue to be ultra profitable
thanks in part to sophisticated systems they use to buy and sell huge
volumes of financial securities very rapidly.

While these systems can make Wall Street gamblers rich, the excess
financial speculation also distorts the market and can cause more severe
fluctuations in the price of securities.

Enough is enough. We can rein in the reckless Wall Street speculation and
raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year in government revenue by
imposing a small tax on financial transactions.

And this week, Congressman Keith Ellison will introduce a bill called the
Inclusive Prosperity Act that would do just that.

Tell your member of Congress to co-sponsor the Inclusive Prosperity Act to
tax Wall Street. Copy& paste the link below into your browser and then
sign the petition:

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/robinhood_tax/?referring_akid=7308.1423753.W6wxBa&source=paste-n1
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