The issue focused on President Obama's economic policies. In his interview with CNN, Obama made it clear that his economic policies were economic in nature. "We're going to come up with tax cuts that will pay for themselves by adding jobs and economic growth," he said. "But we're going to tax them at the national level as well."

To take this issue into account, two states have legislation that would tax tax individual financial transactions and financial transactions at the national level. New Jersey's tax law would