Excellent point.
Or better yet is RAISE CORPORATE TAXES, IMPOSE A CARBON TAX, MANDATE HEALTH CARE, THEN BUY OUT THE ENTIRE STOCK MARKET FOR A FEW TRILLION IN THE NAME OF RESCUEING THE US ECONOMY. Karl Marx would be proud.
You have to hand it to them, it really is a master stroke. Instead of the normally messy activities associated with nationalization/confiscation, like shooting people, gulags, etc, they're simply going to acquire the means of production by purchasing them!
Why everyone cheers the dropping Dow as if it's some indictment of Hussein is beyond me. It just shows how much smarter their team is than the pathetic roster of conservatives.