As I said, my presidential vote is, consistently, based on two things, and that's why I'm voting for Sanders when the primary for my small state rolls around.
Is there a list of gubernatorial, congressional, and state candidates on board with this?
This idea has a two big pieces:
1. A specifically earmarked federal tax on trades (which as a standalone tax makes sense anyway, although I don't see how the same result is not obtained by capital gains, unless the idea is to collect it on trades taken at a loss, which is going to be an interesting sell); and
2. Some sort of federal policy on tuition at state educational institutions. What they charge varies wildly, and if the federal government, through this vehicle, effectively becomes "single payer for tuition", then it's not clear to me how the funds collected from the tax are allocated to per-student federal reimbursement of those institutions.
The second piece unpacks into a pretty complicated mechanism, given the wildly various ways in which state educational institution budgets, endowments and subsidies are arranged, and the way in which tuition factors into their budgets. These need to be re-worked and in some cases from the ground up. It will require a lot more than a phone call to your Congressman to get it to happen and require mobilization of a lot of resources.
I'm really not prone to "happy thoughts" which ignore the complexity of actually getting shit done, and am curious to know how this works beyond the realm of "happy thoughts".
I'm voting for Sanders for the reasons stated, but I'm apparently going to have to put up with bullshit personal digs for not necessarily buying into the magic wand theory of government.
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