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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.
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.