Comment Text:
to our law makers:
Speculation has jolted our economy and ruined property values for people like myself and my aging mother. The wealthy have recovered their portfolios to most of the pre- 2007 levels but the rest of us suffer with higher prices for food, transportation and a big lack of opportunity for employment.
Please tax all speculative investment. If there is anyone who can afford to pull us from the debt it is these investors.
Please remove profit motives from decisions on financial regulation. The majority of people, and their welfare, must take precedence.
It is your duty to protect the people from harm- including financial collapse. If private parties were building dangerous operations that we could see (like a giant facility) threatening homes and food supplies and jobs, we would be outraged and demand action to prevent the threat. But we the people must depend on you in power to see the invisible operations that harbor huge threats that we cannot see.
Do Not let corporations, industries and associations, who's objective is profit, have the same influence as the people's stability. I believe their should be a new system to eliminate the lobbyists who now influence you the most.
Please prevent government by the corporations, for the corporations, of the corporations.
Respectfully,
Tj Aitken
