On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:07:57 -0500, Drifter wrote:

On 11/25/2011 7:50 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/24/11 11:32 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:59:37 -0500, wrote:


I think a slightly lower tax rate on *long-term* capital gains
encourages investment and I favor it. I think short-term capital gains
should be taxed at a much, much higher rate in order to discourage
speculation. There are societal reasons to encourage long-term
investments and very few to encourage speculators.

*Imposter alert*

THAT makes sense. there's little reason to propose lowering capital
gains taxes