Feb. 13, 2022
Hello, I am a licensed attorney in the State of Florida with an LL.M. in taxation from the University of Florida, one of the top universities offering that highly technical degree. I have worked at the Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel and numerous other legal organizations, governmental and private. This proposed rule is anathema to the rule of law and explicitly confirms that these rules are being made and changed post hoc in order to shelter market makers and other institutions from the fruits of their own illegal actions—namely, naked short selling, abuse of dark exchange traffic for internalization and price suppressions purposes, &c. It would be a grave injustice for the proposed rule change to go forward and would forever tarnish confidence in the United States’ ability to fairly regulate economic markets, even as it declares itself to be free and fair to all investors. I object as strongly and emphatically as possible to this proposed rule. If need be, I will collect other submitted public commentary into a single publication, widely disseminated, to document the vast opposition to such a rule change. Best regards, Justin Forti