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Robin Hood Tax Gains Traction

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As Occupy gears up for the American Spring, our European counterparts will soon have one OWS victory to put in their cap. In France this past week, lawmakers put their backing behind a bill for a Robin Hood (Tobin) Tax. The tax, a fraction of a percent on all derivative, currency and securities transactions, will equate to billions of dollars for social programs (at a nominal cost to the markets) and will reign in the worst elements of speculative trading in Europe.

This marks the long beginning of the necessary radical shift in the economic paradigm of our age. Germany and the Eurozone states are already on board, leaving only the U.K. and the U.S. defending unbridled neo-conservative free market gains.

For all of us this side of the Atlantic, the obvious question is: why not a Tobin Tax here?

When the G8 meets in Chicago this May, lets make sure that Occupy is there to greet them with a demand for Robin Hood.

(Reuters) – France wants to target bonds and derivatives, as well as stocks, with a new tax on financial transactions which the conservative government hopes to introduce before an April presidential election, Finance Minister Francois Baroin said on Tuesday.

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government is keen to push ahead with a “Tobin tax” even without its European Union partners …

Read the entire article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/10/us-france-tax-idUSTRE8091BC201...

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Lee Mulcahy

And to open Sundance, there was:

The Queen of Versailles

http://discussions.chicagotribune.com/20/chinews/sns-201201201552reedbusivarietynve1117946861jan20/10

Anonymous

Financial Derivative Balance of Compound Interest: What are They? - Housing Bubble Collapse - Unregulated Insurance?
http://youtu.be/r66MMYyz9VI

Quote of VIDEO!
"It's one thing for us to have an economic problem 'cause people cant pay their mortgages and money is lost to lenders or the whole economy for real problems here, but I believe three times as much money is being lost, not because people really lost their mortgages, because three times the value of the loss of the mortgage is a bet being placed by wealthy institutions or wealthy individuals."

"I can get an insurance policy on someone else's misery"

Since the rise of the second market in Wall Street in the late 1970's, the federal housing estate market & federal mortgage giant investment corporations Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac decided they can no longer print as much money from the Fed to people unless they regulate! So they've bought off Wall Street's Savings & Loans (S&L) who've also regulated many banks through out America! So what does this have to do with many American homeowners with SuB Prime Mortgages including you & my mother?

Well if your credit is good enough to buy a home you can't afford beware of what you barrow! A 30 year sub-prime mortgage loan you would have to pay the bankers many times what the house actually cost! In other words, the typical sub-prime mortgage using the example provided of a loan amount of $250,000 at 6% compounded interest will result in a return of $532,867. This debt is what the banks desire, is to force any home owner to pay the value of two homes for the next 30 years! One for you home & one for the Bank! If they can't make ends meet, eventually your going to end up keeping one of the two values you've paid for! It's not going to be your home! It's going to be the bankers telling you to get the Fuck OuT on a Foreclosure!

Harj Gill an Australian investor, real estate economist, consumer advocate of home owners & author of the best selling book "Own Your Home Years Sooner" suggested that it would be best to invest as much of our income to the equity of our home! Not the Bankers!

However, my suggestion that it would be best not to barrow money from the Bankers at all! I'd rather buy a home paid off FULL!

Anonymous

Harj Gill is the Australian real estate economist & consumer advocate of home owners has brought up this concept since 1997. The Australian banking mortgage & real estate industry is very similar to the United States. However, there is difference. When this banking concept was introduced in Australia in 1997, many banks have offered this type of opportunity to home owner consumers. Saving them tons of money from interest. Unfortunately, most banks here in the United States don't offer this type of opportunity to consumers. Some American home owners that were lucky enough to acknowledge his concept have legally cheated their mortgage against the banks in order save more money from interest. The problem about American bankers is that they don't want to exposed this concept to many home owner consumers. They fear of a huge foreclosures in eyes of lenders, bankers & real-tors alike. Meaning that they would lose your property as their commodities & that in the future you wouldn't see a lot of real-tors selling houses or lenders offering loans from the banks to home buyers due to slow business. There will be a consequence to this problem, but the good news is many people will own there home years sooner! If not, then probably 30 years later..........

There's always a reason why I would say the American banking system is so corrupt that it's willing to bankrupt the American dream of owning a home. So they can lose there home then sell it to another home owner there gonna be making money out of! It's vicious cycle that'll repeat itself over & over again..........

What's the difference between a regular sub prime mortgage & an equitable HELOC? Sub prime loans would take up to many years to pay off! That's because the loan itself is driven by the derivative balance of compounding interest! For you to pay the value to two homes or a little more of it for the next 30 years! PLUS! Principle, Escrow & Estate Taxation fees are added to your monthly sub prime mortgage loan! Make it to obvious to you that you'll never going to pay it off unless you've won a lottery! A HELOC has a reduced principal with low low interest rate! Using a HELOC to consolidate your mortgage debt would save you lots of money! PLUS! No Escrow & Estate Taxation fees added! Just a regular flat Tax rates they charge on Credit Cards!

In Americas real estate industry you are told that your property is not an asset! Harj GiLL is like the Karl Marx in the real estate world would turned that around! His help half of Australia paid off their mortgage by changing the banking system in the country! But, what about the United States?..........

Check Out another Educational Link about his concept introduced here in the US!
http://youtu.be/wNTaG_aDHLA

Anonymous

Here's One LucKy American Homeowner EXPOSED!
http://youtu.be/H3Xdk5Nxpow

He'd Paid off his Mortgage in less than 5 Years! ESTATE TAXATION FREE!

But, How did he do it?

Anonymous

ESSENCE OF BANKING: SLAVES TO DEBT
http://youtu.be/2B_SxGmSJP0

“Remember that from an investor's point of view, the value of a home is not the home itself, but the debt the home creates and shackled the homeowner to, worth many times the cost of the actual house! That debt, which is pure profit, is sold to Americans as the 'American Dream'; to work 30 years to pay the bankers many times what the house actually cost!”

In other words, the typical mortgage using the example provided of a loan amount of $250,000 at 6% compounded interest will result in a return of $532,867. This debt is what the banks desire, not so much the collateral which is subject to fluctuations. The objective becomes to re-establish ownership during these crisis phases, called foreclosure, and then re-lend money to another buyer at a higher price. The home becomes a trap for those who cannot honor the terms of the original agreement based on false valuation, and a vehicle to incur even more debt as the home is essentially forced into a series of new transactions, all of them profitable endeavors for the banks who never actually relinquish control or ownership of the property.

Anonymous

A couple of Teddy Bears Explains & discusses about.....

The Corporate Greedy Banking SySTeM! A Video!
http://youtu.be/lac9O7dHHfo

Anonymous

Definitely no more taxes even in the name of Robin Hood if the present criminals remain in government.

We will have to demolish the present governments by Obamas, Harpers, or Camerons of the world.

They are the problem for humanity and United States of Israel tops the list.

Anonymous

A couple of Teddy Bears Explains & discusses about.....

The Corporate Greedy Banking SySTeM!
Here's a VIDEO! http://youtu.be/lac9O7dHHfo

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