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Why not bail out the taxpayers?
Comments 0 | Recommend 0How many times are we taxpayers going to be forced to bail out bums on Wall Street? They say they need $700 billion of our money or they, and us, will lose big time. I say it's a bunch of hogwash.
Why don't they bail us out and forget Wall Street? They could give every taxpaying legal citizen $500,000 and let us choose whether to give any to Wall Street or pay our homes off, buy more gas-efficient cars, pool our money and start wind farms.
This isn't hard, people. Our government is going to print more money to give to somebody. Why not give it to us? We didn't break Wall Street, they did.
We, as taxpayers, will do more to help Wall Street with this money than they would. The housing market would grow, the automotive industry would grow, farms would be saved, our children could go to college and America would prosper. If Wall Street gets the money, we will still lose our homes, cars and credit cards and there will be no college for our children.
I love this part - if you're a CEO of a failed company, or a board member of a failed company, you can't have any of this money. When we get into financial trouble, you tell us we are not credit worthy; we can't keep our homes, cars, even jobs because we can't be trusted with money.
I believe the same should happen to them and their families. Maybe when your assets are taken, and you're living in a car that doesn't work half the time, your children are made fun of because they're homeless, you stand in line to beg for food and get called names and laughed at, maybe then you'll get a taste of what you've been doing to the rest of us.
No politicians get any either. You let businesses move in and not pay taxes. I've had to move a lot in my life to find work. Not once has anybody said, thanks for moving here and because you did, you don't have to pay your taxes for five years.
I hope some of you bloggers out there will think this is a good idea and spread the word. We taxpayers are going to have to bail somebody out, so why not bail out ourselves?
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JAMES CARSON
Yuma
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