Gagging on an Ad Blitz of Empty Anti-Wall Street Rhetoric

By Sam Pizzigati

October 13, 2012 - 8:44pm ET 

Candidates this fall are taking plenty of pokes at the financial industry's best and brightest. But they could be doing a lot more than poke. They could push to start taxing Wall Street.

All those political ads flooding our media are smacking dozens of different targets. One particularly: Wall Street. From mid-April to mid-September, Ad Age reports, $1 of every $10 spent on campaign ads has blasted bankers.

And these ads haven’t just come from Democrats. The list of “big anti-Wall Street spenders” even includes the Republican National Committee.