Finance reform bill

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by SamIam

Anymore, Brown's refusal to support reform is just another typical Republican tactic to block solutions to the nation's problems. If he had come up with specific ways that the 19 billion could be taken from the federal budget, I would feel a little better about his action, but he didn't.

I shed few tears for the banking industry. Its ill conceived actions got us into this mess, and the tax payer is paying billions to bail out financial institutions.

Imposing a tax on the larger banking institutions seems only fair to me. My tax dollars are going into supporting them. It seems only fair that they pay part of the cost for unraveling this mess they have got us all into.

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That's what I was thinking. He used the buzz words "cut federal spending" which seems to serve the purpose of saying that if the current administration weren't spending so much the money would be readily available. OK, fine. Cut WHAT?

I agree with you Sam, stick it to the financial institutions. They can handle it. They are responsible for their own actions, as we are expected to be responsible for ours.