Yeah, but I&#x27;m not naive enough to think this will get passed soon.  The problem with the US is that its manufacturing base has been so hollowed out it has become reliant on its treasury bonds + QE money printing fed (backed by its military) and financial hegemony (think Goldman Sachs) that results from it.  The ftt got passed in the EU because Germany (which runs the EU, mostly) actually still makes things.  They don&#x27;t need the world to transact their bonds in order to stay liquid.