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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-12-10 09:45 AM
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7. Maybe we should just let the IRS collect 99% of everything they make over the first Million?
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  -American Bankers Assoc CEO warns Obama that new tax on banks "will decrease their ability to lend" Amerigo Vespucci  Jan-12-10 09:39 AM   #0 
  - They're not loaning now  RockaFowler   Jan-12-10 09:41 AM   #1 
  - +1 n/t  Laelth   Jan-12-10 09:45 AM   #8 
  - What a joke? They are not lending now.  OHdem10   Jan-12-10 10:14 AM   #16 
  - just more bankster b.s. such scammers!  amborin   Jan-12-10 12:27 PM   #30 
  - Yep...that was my immediate reaction.  Amerigo Vespucci   Jan-12-10 10:33 AM   #25 
  - iF THEY DON'T LEND WHAT WILL DO WITH THE MONEY  lsewpershad   Jan-12-10 02:44 PM   #42 
  - Maybe if you didn't hand out so many bonuses, a new tax wouldn't be such a bother, huh?  ck4829   Jan-12-10 09:41 AM   #2 
  - "...a hit on banks that will decrease their ability to lend."  KansDem   Jan-12-10 09:42 AM   #3 
  - Why doesn't the tax decrease their ability to give bonuses? n/t  InkAddict   Jan-12-10 09:43 AM   #4 
  - They already don't lend money  liberal_at_heart   Jan-12-10 09:43 AM   #5 
  - BWHAHAHAHA!  Joanne98   Jan-12-10 09:44 AM   #6 
  - Maybe we should just let the IRS collect 99% of everything they make over the first Million?  Vincardog   Jan-12-10 09:45 AM   #7 
  - Well, they CLD always take a little llower bonus ya know! n/t  napi21   Jan-12-10 09:46 AM   #9 
  - That's why I favor a tax on profits and bonuses  NJmaverick   Jan-12-10 09:58 AM   #10 
  - The President ran the clock out on *that* idea last Spring. nt  Romulox   Jan-12-10 10:02 AM   #13 
  - Veiled threat.  rucky   Jan-12-10 09:59 AM   #11 
  - "veiled"? Seems to me it's pretty much an out in the open plain old threat  NJmaverick   Jan-12-10 10:00 AM   #12 
     - Well, yeah.  rucky   Jan-12-10 10:10 AM   #15 
     - agreed  NJmaverick   Jan-12-10 10:24 AM   #20 
     - People aren't taking it on face value anymore! look at some polls out there for dems!  flyarm   Jan-12-10 12:29 PM   #35 
     - In Plain sight.......and we keep being taken for fools! eom  flyarm   Jan-12-10 12:27 PM   #29 
  - Prediction: banks will get their way.  Romulox   Jan-12-10 10:03 AM   #14 
  - They always get their way because the own the Senate and can stop  harun   Jan-12-10 12:29 PM   #34 
  - Whoa, baby, let's just flip this thing on its head for these stupid, greedy suckers.  Skidmore   Jan-12-10 10:14 AM   #17 
  - Fuck the banks. I just closed a credit card account this mornign.  EnviroBat   Jan-12-10 10:16 AM   #18 
  - ooohhhh noes!!!!!  northernlights   Jan-12-10 10:20 AM   #19 
  - The mob would be envious of the banksters' shakedown tactics......  marmar   Jan-12-10 10:24 AM   #21 
  - I'm a member - so from the inside:  sui generis   Jan-12-10 10:28 AM   #22 
  - Excuse me while I LOL.  L0oniX   Jan-12-10 10:29 AM   #23 
  - "Bottom Line: You don't Install Our Plutonomy, We WILL."  HughBeaumont   Jan-12-10 10:32 AM   #24 
  - NO! It SHOULD descrease execs ability to STEAL more money from us!  cascadiance   Jan-12-10 12:21 PM   #26 
  - Administration capitulation...  DisgustedInMN   Jan-12-10 12:22 PM   #27 
  - oh that was all a done deal..they give each other their talking points!  flyarm   Jan-12-10 12:32 PM   #37 
  - WTF are they lending now?????? nada! what a joke! eom  flyarm   Jan-12-10 12:26 PM   #28 
  - Horseshit straight from the  Froward69   Jan-12-10 12:28 PM   #31 
  - The same folks who couldn't decide between 7 or 8 digit bonuses?  jtrockville   Jan-12-10 12:28 PM   #32 
  - So now the banks are comming right out in the open and making threats?  notadmblnd   Jan-12-10 12:28 PM   #33 
  - They'll just use this as the excuse why they won't lend.  harun   Jan-12-10 12:30 PM   #36 
  - Yet hundreds of billions in tax payer money didn't increase their ability to lend.  EOTE   Jan-12-10 12:32 PM   #38 
  - today in my area SW Florida the news said ..record low of housing starts..record low..  flyarm   Jan-12-10 12:35 PM   #39 
  - so full of shit  fascisthunter   Jan-12-10 12:35 PM   #40 
  - Extortion. n/t  Triana   Jan-12-10 12:47 PM   #41 
  - No problem, we'll just nationalize the industry  TheKentuckian   Jan-12-10 02:47 PM   #43 
  - LOL!  applegrove   Jan-12-10 10:16 PM   #44 
 

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