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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:06 AM Original message |
Two weeks to cut rates, card issuers told |
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lligrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. To Heck With Allowing Them To Do It Voluntarily |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. What ever happened to usery laws? n/t |
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IndyOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Tricky Dick happened to usury laws - they were repealed during the Nixon years. (n/t) |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
20. Nixon? |
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IndyOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. My statement re: Nixon and usury laws comes from Thom Hartmann - |
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Acadia Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-28-08 06:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
37. The republicons got rid of them. Support the rich is their motto. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Prime+5 |
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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Oh, I agree. But even what's decribed in the story is more than we are getting here! nt |
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Donkeykick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. You know what? |
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lligrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:02 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. But You Do On Greedy Minded Capitalists |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Capitalists are like kids in a candy store. If they only take one piece there will be plenty to go |
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MJJP21 (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
33. Doesn't sound voluntary |
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jazzjunkysue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
4. NY state is toying with a 4% school budget increase cap. But not for Visa |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-28-08 03:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
36. That's terrible |
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hvn_nbr_2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
7. Bush counters with demand that credit cards use income-inverse proportional rates |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Really?? |
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MindMatter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
8. Now that's what I'm talking about |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
9. This is being done in the UK, not here - Why isn't it being done here? |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. US/GOP style capilalism is kleptomania |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
12. Ha, ha, ha, that happening here in the US? That REALLY....... |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
13. Capitalism used to be called |
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Patiod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. And there's no credit card competition |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 10:17 PM Response to Reply #14 |
34. Actually, the revival of lay-away may be just that -- competition. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:15 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Capitalism will eventually take itself out, but it will take all of us out first. The middle class |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-29-08 10:43 AM Response to Reply #17 |
39. Yep....or maybe they just |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
18. We need this sort of thing |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
19. Is a whole two weeks really necessary? I was told by my local Citizen's |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
21. Why does the electric co. charge a dollar for late payments and credit cards 39 bucks... |
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Stuff213 (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
22. I think its time to treat credit card companies as national security threats. |
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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 04:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. Hey, Stuff213! |
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kaygore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
23. If only our government looked out for people |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
24. This needs to happen in this country ASAP. |
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Riverman (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 01:38 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. CREDIT CARD DEBT WORSE FOR AVERAGE AMERICAN |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
25. and 30% is usury. Cut it to 10.99 or ELSE. |
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pa28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
27. U.S. should follow suit but probably won't. |
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enpassant (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
30. What happened with H.R. 5244 |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
31. Crap, I thought this was the US. Britain is still a civilized country. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-28-08 01:28 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. but in the uk they can force you to sell your house if you default on your credit card. |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-29-08 08:07 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. No they can't |
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