who said anything about running american markets when there are foreign markets where futures can be traded without penalty? as american money pours into foreign stock exchanges, the economies and job markets will swell. unfortunately, there's a very limited amount of space to type in this particular meme, so i couldn't explain all that. but the facts remains that whenever you disincentive investors through taxation on local goods (including stocks), the investors will put their money into alternatives where the net gain is higher...including foreign stock exchanges and foreign companies.