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by lightbyte 3254 days ago
>Second, this is necessarily a regressive tax

You're putting your own ideas into his mouth. Nobody said anything about the fee being a flat fee, or that it would apply to every single trade in existence.

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I'm saying this as a Sanders supporter, but maybe he should have been more specific and detailed about his proposals then. My two biggest frustrations with Sanders were 1) his inability to understand that it was going to take more than just mere backbone and higher taxes to reform wall street and 2) his foreign policy
>but maybe he should have been more specific and detailed about his proposals then.

I'll agree with you there, his proposals were very similar to Trump's in that they did not have much substance, just broad ideas.