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New Study: Sanders’ Tax Wall Street Plan Would Raise $300 Billion, Create Millions of New Jobs

RoseAnn DeMoro writing for The Huffington Post

by rht4people
March 21, 2016
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Sen. Bernie Sanders

New research findings from a team of progressive economists provides documentary evidence that the financial footing for Sen. Bernie Sanders visionary social change agenda is not only plausible, but would create far more socially productive jobs, as well as moving us down the road to the more humane society that is at the heart of the Sanders campaign.

In their push to vilify Sanders, Democratic Party acolytes from the media to academia have fallen in line attacking the economic foundations of his campaign for free public college tuition, Medicare for all, job creation through infrastructure repair, and other critical needs.

But a new report from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute documents how a key Sanders proposal – a tax on Wall Street speculation -would bring at least $300 billion a year in new revenues from those who can most afford to pay it for the critical reforms the country so desperately needs.

Further, the report by Robert Pollin, lead author, and his colleagues James Heintz and Thomas Herndon, breaks new ground in documenting that the tax would be a huge boon to the economy in creating millions of new jobs in education beyond what the same spending creates on Wall Street.

And contrary to the critics would not dampen productive investment, which has fallen sharply under the reckless Wall Street behavior of recent decades.

Taxing Wall Street speculation to finance free public college tuition, as Sanders talks about on the campaign trail, and has introduced in legislation, S 1373, the College for All Act, could create a net expansion of 4.2 million jobs. Not to mention securing equal educational opportunity for everyone, regardless of background or ability to pay.

Investing in education produces more than 8 times the number of jobs created by the same spending in financial services, the authors explain.

This finding parallels a 2009 National Nurses United study that found conversion to a Medicare for all health care system, as Sanders also proposes, would create millions of new, good paying jobs, as would a green economy as Pollin documented in his 2012 book “Back to Full Employment.”

Simply put, a socially productive economy, from education to healthcare to renewable energy is also a job creation engine.

The report’s second ground breaking finding is that taxing Wall Street speculation would not harm productive investment in the economy, as the Wall Street shills constantly allege.

Since the 1970s, with the escalation of a neoliberal program of decimation of our manufacturing sector with outsourcing, globalization, and the domination of the financial sector of the economy, there has been an 18-fold increase in Wall Street trading over productive investment in the economy, Pollin, Heintz and Herndon reveal.

As the authors note Wall Street speculation “has not delivered” in “investments in physical plants and machinery that can deliver technical innovations (that) raise overall productivity.”

In other words, the idea that the speculation tax would harm productive investments in a corporate dominated economy through outsourcing, unfair trade pacts from NAFTA to the Trans Pacific Partnership proposal, and domination by Wall Street, that has long abandoned manufacturing jobs at home and harmed millions of working class families is nonsense.

For those new to the idea of a speculation tax, or as nurses call it, the Robin Hood tax, is explained by Pollin, Heintz and Herndon.

A simple tax of $5 in every $1,000 of stock trades, $1 on the trading of a $1,000 bond, and a mere 5 cents on the trades of derivatives, “such as a stock option, in which the value of the underlying asset, i.e. the stock itself, is worth $1,000.”

Compare that to the average sales tax in the U.S. of 8.4 percent, or $84 on every $1,000 most Americans pay on nearly every consumer item, from shoes to tooth paste.

Further, the cost falls almost entirely on trading done by the biggest Wall Street high rollers – think Lehman Brothers or Goldman Sachs – the very people who tanked our economy by reckless gambling with people’s mortgages and pensions.

And, raise at least $300 billion a year, not from regular Americans who make occasional stock trades, but from the Wolves of Wall Street who make thousands or millions of trades a day, often through computerized algorithms.

Individuals with annual incomes under $50,000 and families under $75,000 a year are exempted through the two bills Sanders has introduced, S 1371, the Inclusive Prosperity Act, which parallels a companion House measure, HR 1464, introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison.

No surprise, Wall Street moguls, and their surrogates in the media and Washington, hate it. They don’t want any restraints on their profiteering and stranglehold on the economy. But, shamefully, many in the liberal and Democratic Party elite, from Hillary Clinton to her surrogates in the Democratic National Committee and Congress have also attacked Sanders social change agenda as “pie in the sky.”

Even though a similar tax is in place in most of the world’s major financial markets, is in the process of implementation in the European Union, and actually existed in the U.S. for the first half of the last century.

Far from the fear mongering here, a Wall Street tax is achievable, it would have an enormous salutary effect on our economy, and help lead the way to a program of such critical needs as education and health care for all, good paying jobs, and forceful action on the climate crisis – just as Bernie Sanders proposes.

Original post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-ann-demoro/new-study-sanders-tax-wal_b_9517700.html

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Get ready for the people’s #MedicareForAll movement like you’ve never seen it before!

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Los Angeles is turning out in force for our students and educators. Rain can't stop us. Billionaires can't stop us. Union busters can't stop us. We'll be fighting for as long as it takes! #FightFor15 #LAUSDStrike #UTLAStrong

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6 Dec 2018

Gary Cohen, former CEO Goldman Sachs addressing new members of Congress today: "You guys are way over your head, you don't know how the game is played."

No Gary, YOU don't know what's coming - a revolutionary Congress that puts people over profits. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1070735202031423488

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AOCAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC·
6 Dec 2018

Our “bipartisan” Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group. Other members have quietly expressed to me their concern that this wasn’t told to us in advance.

Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where‘s labor? Activists?Frontline community leaders?

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NNUBonnieBonnie Castillo@NNUBonnie·
6 Dec 2018

Vet @will_c_fischer explains PRIVATIZATION:

“It's a fancy way of saying we’re taking tax dollars out of the VA & putting it into the pockets of millionaires & billionaires"

It's up to us to defend the VA, USPS & more from being sold off to the highest bidder. #ThursdayThoughts

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30 Nov 2018

Medicare for All: As Healthcare Costs Soar, Momentum Grows to Guarantee Healthcare for All Americans http://ow.ly/80cQ30mOFbe

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NNUBonnieBonnie Castillo@NNUBonnie·
30 Nov 2018

✅ FACT: Americans spend the most per person on health care, twice as much as other wealthy nations.

✅ FACT: The US ranks 64th in the world in life-expectancy.

🤔 How can both be true?

We have a for-profit health care system.

🤔 The solution?

Nurses say: #MedicareForAll!

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28 Nov 2018

“Workplace organizing helps level inequality in wages and working conditions, and women and workers of color would benefit the most from unionization.”
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27 Nov 2018

Corporations don’t need tax breaks.
👉🏼14,700 jobs are being cut by General Motors despite making billions in profit.
👉🏼Over the past decade, the company has received billions in tax breaks and subsidies from both Canada and the U.S.

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