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| Obama Calls For A Bank Tax... "For Reform" |
| 2010-06-26 |
| Thieving Fucking Bastards President Barack Obama, fresh from a win on a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations, on Saturday urged Congress to take up his proposal for a $90 billion, 10-year tax on banks as the next step in reform. Obama wants to slap a 0.15 percent tax on the liabilities of the biggest U.S. financial institutions to recoup the costs to taxpayers of the financial bailout. "We need to impose a fee on the banks that were the biggest beneficiaries of taxpayer assistance at the height of our financial crisis -- so we can recover every dime of taxpayer money," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 of course....the top line is my own personal opinion and should've been highlighted I dunno Frank. I think it should be part of the article. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-06-26 23:29 |
| #5 Taxing corporations is MUCH better than taxing people: Taxing people - voters get pissed off at President / Congress. Taxing corporations - company passes tax along to people as higher price or fee, people get pissed off at corporation. See much better - (if you're a weaselly politician) |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-06-26 19:40 |
| #4 By the way, corporations of any kind don't pay taxes, their customers do. NoMoreBS I have never been able to figure why so many people fail to undertand this FACT! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-06-26 18:27 |
| #3 Is this on top of the $19 billion in fees that the new financial reform bill headed to Oblahblah's desk contains? By the way, corporations of any kind don't pay taxes, their customers do. So sh*thead just taxed you again America. How's that change working for you? Clearly the hope has dissipated! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2010-06-26 18:17 |
| #2 Thieving Fucking Bastards Yes, but which? The $700B TARP eating banks or the Obama admin who are here to help you? |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-26 17:04 |
#1 of course....the top line is my own personal opinion and should've been highlighted
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| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-26 16:55 |