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    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
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