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Re:Why Sub-Prime Lenders Didn’t Cause the Housing Crash (2015) by Godel_unicode on Sunday September 10, 2017 @05:42PM (#15214447)
You might want to look at a pie/donut chart of government spending. Mostly you got medic{are,aid} and social security. I think most people would agree that reducing the tax payer burden of those programs without reducing benefit is an objectively good thing.

I don't disagree that the financial system should strive to be better, but during a crisis is definitely not the time to make that happen.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/images/pubs...

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Re:Why Sub-Prime Lenders Didn’t Cause the Housing Crash (2015) by pasquinelli on Sunday September 10, 2017 @10:16PM (#15215439)
i know, but the subject was the return on the investment from bailing out the banks, but that return went to the federal budget, and the bailing out came out of people's pockets. it isn't comparing like for like at all.
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