Jan. 12, 2024
Subject: File No. SR-NYSE-2023-09 Asking the SEC to NOT ALLOW NACs To all involved at the SEC: I am urging the SEC to NOT allow the NYSE to list “Natural Asset Companies” or NACs, pursuant to File No. SR-NYSE-2023-09. The NYSE is a place to trade stocks, not natural resources based on Carbon footprints. To put this unconstitutional rule into practice will do several things: 1. Allow big corportations, who have a large carbon footprint to trade their status against small business, especially agriculture, and eventually every city and villiage. The outcome is to allow them with money to continue by buying off small business, which cannot afford to compete. 2. This will discourage agriculture, by taking away their rights to farm and ranch in an attempt to stop production of beef, pork, chicken and other entities that make food for the world, and the US. 3. This will allow for less food, thus increasing the cost for everyone. 4. Those with money will be able to afford food, and continue their current way of life. 5. Those who struggle with money will not be able to afford living. 6. Ultimately, this policy will cause less production of food, with higher cost, and many in the nation will starve, and the food sent to other countries will be curtailed, so there will be international hunger. There was not a lot of time to comment on this, and the time was done over the holidays, when it would be not seen, and there would be less comments. I AM TOTALLY AGAINST SR-NYSE-2023-09 to pass under any circumstances. Sincerely Thomas B. Johnson