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  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]

    On Feb 02 12:12 PM charles hopfl wrote:

    > Everyone wants a tax change for 2009. It would only be fair and
    > prudent to allow (at least) individual stockholders to take their
    > losses on security sales as ordinary losses instead of capital losses.

    Why should investors (including myself) get a break? We gambled, we lost. Time to pay the piper. This is what being an adult is all about.

    > The majority need some help desperately.

    Yes, but the majority are not investors, except in retirement vehicles with no tax losses to worry about.
    Feb 02 13:55 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    @know nothing:
    If there's one thing we learn every 4 years, it's that the average joe is dumber than a box of rocks.

    On Jan 28 09:18 AM know nothing wrote:

    > There have been a number of people asking lately,if they should take
    > out their 401K money.When asked why they would do that? (after the
    > declines already suffered) Their concern was that the gov't would
    > through deception,would take what little they have left.
    > The average "Joe". american is still very uncomfortable!
    Jan 28 16:50 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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