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Give me a break Dave,
 
As a business man you know that to grow a company 
you need capital.  To raise large amounts of capital efficiently (at a low 
cost) you need to issue stock.  Now in a perfect world you would sell that 
stock to investors who would hold it for decades.  Unfortunately this is 
unrealistic since investors want to take profits or cut losses.  This is 
where traders come in. They provide the liquidity (money) and take much of the 
risks to make an orderly market.  Econ. 101.
 
Good luck and good trading,
 
Ray Raffurty
 
 
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  >From: 
  Norman 
  Winski 
  To: <A title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  href="">realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  
  Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:07 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [RT] Tax Cuts
  
  Dave Johnson,
   
    Traders produce market effeciency 
  which is vital to a free market society. 
   
  Regards,
   
  Norman
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    >From: 
    Dave 
    Johnson 
    To: <A 
    title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    href="">realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    
    Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:56 
    PM
    Subject: Re: [RT] Tax Cuts
    
    This is a new twist to me.  I have never 
    heard anyone suggest that H1 and L1 visas are being pushed by liberal 
    senators!  Quite the contrary, in general.  The business community 
    is usually attacked for this practice from the liberal side.  
    
     
    I have personally brought 50-60 engineers into 
    the USA from Europe, and it was not because of a liberal agenda.  It 
    was to do work here that otherwise would have been done somewhere else, 
    though the tactical basis has always been related to the job at hand 
    (developing new electrical machines for manufacturing HERE).
     
    By the way...what do traders 
    produce?
     
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      >From: 
      Mark 
      Simms 
      To: <A 
      title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      href="">realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      
      Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:33 
      AM
      Subject: RE: [RT] Tax Cuts
      
      <FONT color=#0000ff 
      size=2>Exactly....AMERICA - Land of the consumers; INDIA/CHINA - Land of 
      the producers.
      We can't 
      produce anything except <bullshit> from lawyers and insurance 
      companies in this country anymore....that's our biggest product 
      now.
      Wait, I 
      forgot our beloved government...add them to the bullshit list with all of 
      those security consultants and analysts who so incompetently allowed 9-11 
      to happen. Great job, guys..How much do you get paid again 
      ?
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      size=2> 
      With H1-B 
      and L1 visa programs promulgated by some liberal "I hate those overpaid 
      techies" senators,
      the WHOOSH 
      of technology to overseas firms has been INCREDIBLE and without 
      PRECEDENT.
      As a 
      result, America is losing technology dominance....a terrible, 
      long-term trend.
      <FONT color=#0000ff 
      size=2> 
      What is 
      your government doing for YOU today ?
      Bullshit is 
      the answer.
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        size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Navtej S. Nandra (RR) 
        [mailto:nnandra@xxxxxxxxxx]Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:08 
        PMTo: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: Re: [RT] 
        Tax Cuts
        Can't speak to the current tax proposal and 
        its trade-offs, but here are some simplistic thoughts:
        1)  Investments create businesses 
        create jobs
        2)  Business and jobs create money 
        velocity and more investments
        3)  See 1) above
         
        Any stimulus that helps investments in 
        businesses is good, because it creates income producing long term 
        assets.
         
        But right now, we are doing two things that 
        do not address the above.  For one thing, we (as in the captains of 
        industry) are outsourcing our businesses overseas (manufacturing, 
        commodities, services) and for another, our (as in elected 
        representatives) policies support consumer income over business 
        investments.
         
        So we are not doing much to create US based 
        businesses and are using a subsidy from lower interest rates (via 
        HELOCs, mortgages) as well as tax give backs to create a consumer 
        spending lift.  Much of which is paying for oil and goods that 
        we import from others.
         
        Not suggesting we change interest rates or 
        tax policy or free trade ... but definitely suggesting that we should do 
        something meaningful that makes investment in US industry a better 
        opportunity than outsourcing.
         
        I think a 3 year horizon will probably see 
        significant global money flow into countries like India, China, Vietnam, 
        Thailand, etc.
         
        The good news?  We continue to be the 
        world's largest consumers of stuff.  So trade flows have to rely on 
        us and our (gasp) foreign policy.
         
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          <DIV 
          >From: 
          Charles 
          Marchand 
          To: <A 
          title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
          href="">realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
          
          Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:08 
          PM
          Subject: Re: [RT] Tax Cuts
          Kent,         
          Good points -- tax breaks for R&D, capital spending, etc. are 
          effectively tax cuts designed to stimulate some part of the 
          economy.  Whether they work or not seems to depend on who you 
          talk to.  Personal tax rates today are lower than the 
          marginal rates of up to 70%  that prevailed for most of the 
          post WWII period (90% briefly during the Korean War), but we have 
          the Alternative Minimum Tax hitting a larger number of high income 
          families every 
          year.         The 
          elimination of taxes on dividends had an immediate impact on the 
          Utilities.  Since money flees taxation, the dividend tax 
          elimination will probably continue to favorably impact dividend 
          yielding Dow 30 / SnP 500 stocks while drawing money from the Hope 
          & Glory NAZ.  Will this weaken investment in new US 
          technology?  REITS don't participate in the dividend tax 
          relief.  Will this take some air out of real estate?   
          Will this tax policy draw some widow and orphans' money from CD's, 
          bonds or T-Bills?  What will be the effect on foreign 
          investment in the U. S. market?  Will it be extended beyond 
          the three year period?  I don't have a clue.  Ideas 
          welcomed!         BTW 
          -- Ref the suggestion that if you don't pay taxes, you don't vote 
          -- 30-odd years ago oilman HL Hunt floated a tongue-in-cheek 
          proposition that the more taxes you pay, the more votes you should 
          have.  He suggested that people would be falling all over 
          themselves to pay more in taxes.Charles 
          MarchandAt 01:21 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you 
          wrote:>Also, it depends on which taxes are being cut and what 
          their relative level>is.  If taxes are very low (which 
          they are not today), then tax cuts would>probably result in 
          lower revenue.>>Kent 
          Rollins>>>----- Original Message 
          ----->From: "Charles Marchand" <c_r@xxxxxxxxx>>To: 
          <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 
          11:29 PM>Subject: Re: [RT] Tax 
          Cuts>>>Lenny,>>          
          None of the 
          above.>>          
          Tax cuts and resulting governmental income do not happen in 
          a>vacuum.  A, B, C might apply if there were no other 
          macro-economic factors>at work in the global or national 
          economy.>>          
          BTW -- Not interested in spin either.>>Charles 
          Marchand>>>At 09:43 PM 5/26/2003 -0400, you 
          wrote:> >Charles,> >     Just 
          so I'm clear on your point of view and for the eyeballing 
          public> > record. Please respond to the following:> 
          >> >Tax cuts generate:> >> >A) More 
          revenue to the US Government.> >B) The same revenue as if 
          there were no cuts.> >C) Less revenue to the US 
          Government.> >> >Oh, just in case, please just 
          answer the above question A, B or C. I'm not> >interested in 
          spin!!> >> >Thanks in advance!> 
          >Lenny> >> >In a message dated 5/26/2003 
          9:27:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,> >c_r@xxxxxxxxx 
          writes:> >> >>Can't let this pass -- the Reagan 
          tax cuts have become a mantra of> >>Republican 
          policy.  Fact is the tax cut of 1986 was accompanied by 
          the> >>collapse of oil prices.  In January '86 
          prices went from over $25/BO to>$10> >>or 
          so.   The US was using around 16,000,000 BO PER DAY.  
          Do the math.> >>> >>Charles Marchand> 
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