No one makes money on every stock they buy, so it is inevitable you will have some losers.
Those who are net losers (you and the other eight remaining taxpayers, in this example) actually are right to swear that your tax bills seem larger, even if total government collections remain unchanged.
If you own the component stocks you could sell just the losers.
Then there is the question of winners and losers - always difficult when you are creating new pay scales.
And you can limit your gains by selling off losers and less appreciated stock holdings.
You argue that in this way the only losers are those who can afford to pay for the luxury, and that the revenue could then be used to improve public transport.
The problem with judging the winners and losers is that as an observer you have to second guess what the average voter wants - an aggressive exchange which might appeal to one viewer could prove a complete turn off for another.
Though there will be winners or losers in this Darwinian battle, if you're invested in a winner, it makes you a winner.
There are winners, there are losers, but the social sciences, you know, has to be at the forefront here to establish exactly what are the consequences in every restoration decision, and we have to have an honest dialogue about that.
"I would say the losers in many ways are the fans because you don't know what product you're going to get for a significant amount of money, " said Jeff Van Gundy, an ESPN commentator and former NBA coach who took the New York Knicks to the Finals during the lockout-shortened 1999 season.
"What you're seeing is two winners and a bunch of losers, " says Kevin Rollins, 49, Dell's vice chairman.
Even if you are great, something just short of a majority will be losers.
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But retaining clear losers that may only decline further in value may not be wise, especially if you are selling some assets at a gain.
It's only when you start unpeeling things that you can see how it would actually impact on poor people and I think they would be the losers.
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Can you just explain to the committee that if the economy is doing well, why should there be any losers?
If you want to try ELH at home, read my two stories about the economics and the logistics of selling losers.
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