Wall Street Abandons Republicans - Now Supports Higher Taxes on the Wealthy.
Wall Street mavens may be coming around. Years after they decimated the economy, they are beginning to realize that they need to change not just the error of their ways, but also the way of their errors.
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, now supports increasing taxes on the wealthiest earners, including increasing capital gains and dividends' taxes. Same for Home Depot's Ken Langone.
...much of Wall Street is on-board with some of the tax changes Obama has been proposing. "I would tax dividends and interest income higher and capital gains," said Dimon. "Have a higher tax rate. If you said there'd be a certain percent rate for people making over a million dollars and a higher percent rate for people making over $10 million, no problem with me. I don't think people should be able to pass unlimited amounts on to their kids."
Even Home Depot founder and financier Ken Langone ("You bet I'm a fat cat," he told me proudly) isn't arguing for the status quo. "I would enthusiastically embrace a tax increase," he told me. "I'm more than willing to pay taxes. I'm saying, take the money and use it to lower the debt."
It is not just that they support it, they actually state that they understand it is necessary.
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Easy to 'be' for something they know won't or isn't likely to happen. 
they looked around and discovered that they had taken all the blood out of the turnip people around the world and no one could afford to buy their products or services anymore due to lack of income. So after sitting on $3 trillion dollars, they figure they could maybe cough up a couple tens of billions over the next decade or so to keep whoever is left from completely going under.... 
