Occupy Wall Street Protests not working? What do you think?

[lordmandeep]

A lot of those points are simplistic ^^
Its the talking points of liberal arts students at local colleges frankly.

Tell me if the US creates a financial transaction tax, yet Australia, Canada, other OECD countries and the developing world do not have it, which banking sectors will prosper? No need for a tax, just regulate the transactions, as simple as that...


As I said if the issue was all about the banks being too big, Canada should be in the worst fiscal situation in the entire world.

All of you need, are rules and regulations to control banks. So all this debate about making the banks smaller is pointless.
You need strong govt regulations that requires higher capital ratio's. As simple as that and no loopholes to such requirements.

When it comes to taxes, the US govt can easily collect more taxes by ending Bush era tax cuts and closing loopholes on Corporate taxes.

For example, many other Western Countries have lower corporate tax rates then the US, however they collect more Corporate taxes (as a percentage of the total revenues) compared to the US. Why???
No silly loopholes.


However the Occupy movement is dead in Canada and frankly is fading away fast.

As angry as people are, they are not going to trust and belief in a leaderless, aimless group that has group assemblies that resemble grade school student council meetings.

Also the Occupy movement over the entire 2-3 months did not once list such demands in public at all, only on thier websites.
So, to come here on a message board and declare that "Oh the OWS is great because it stood for all these things", yet such topics were not brought up by leaders of the movement (as there were none). They were more concerned about their camps rather then projecting these ideas.