A Wall Street tax that could lift many out of poverty already exists — it’s just not being collected
“Imagine if there were a tiny tax that Wall Street traders were required to pay on every stock trade. Enacting such a thing might sound like a long and difficult political fight against a moneyed caste. Yet astonishingly, it turns out that it already exists in the state of New York — it’s just not being collected. To the contrary: Wall Street is being refunded the tax money.”