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The Senate voted Thursday to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure adopted late last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that had been expected to save Americans billions of dollars per year.

Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, was the lone Republican to oppose the resolution, which passed on a nearly party-line vote, 52-48. It will now move to the House, where Representative French Hill, the Arkansas Republican who leads the Financial Service Committee, introduced a parallel resolution last month.

The rule would have limited the fees banks and credit unions could charge when customers spend more than they have in their accounts, typically $35 per overdraft. The bureau estimated it would save American households $5 billion a year. It was immediately challenged in court by banking trade groups.


Personal opinon:

Call your bank and tell them to turn off overdraft protection now.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

wHaT aBoUt tHe EgG pRiCezSZ!?!?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Good point, we could be fucking you much harder"

-Republicans

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

bOtH sIdEs R sAmE!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone who votes Republican deserves shit like this. But unfortunately we're all stuck with them, and they seem incapable of learning.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Zeus forbid they learn something from....clutches pearls....liberals!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Republicans seemingly are free to fuck the poor and working citizen as hard as they want and they keep voting for more.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

They're either voting for it or staying home. Same difference. One would think people would eventually wake up but.... Seems no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What is so depressing is how I keep seeing that Democrats' approval numbers are so low. The reaction to the Republicans getting more and more awful with each passing year is to....dunk on the Democrats. I'm assuming part of that sentiment is because the Democrats have not been given enough power to stop the Republicans from doing terrible things and that they have not passed all kinds of impossible purity tests...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Dem approvals are so f'n low, because not even the dems remotely represent the working class, as a party. Some individuals in the party try to, but that dissent is squashed by party leadership.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's because the old guard Democrats only offer "we aren't Trump I guess!" and spend half their time chastising their own voting base for not doing enough for them. While they were sitting there during Trump's speech doing their little sign thing with only one of them being willing to get thrown out, they were asking for donations. People get tired of that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Recent actions taken by mainstream Dems:

  • Among the thirty fundraising texts a week I get, I got a text with the wrong name telling me that Medicaid was fried because we "begged democrats to save it" but just didn't donate enough money :( I can just imagine Pelosi turning to face the other democrats, their faces turned up to her like a bunch of whipped orphans, and sadly telling them that Christmas is cancelled because the donors simply didn't put enough quarters in her back.

  • Chuck Schumer had a perfect opportunity to take a stand and decided that being difficult with the fucking Nazis was just one line we can't afford to cross just now. I guess Saturn's in Pisces ATM, and, wouldn't you know, the perfect conditions for taking a meaningful stand against the republicans have somehow failed to manifest for twenty years and counting. But don't worry, we might have pushed the quit button for ourselves AGAIN, but if you donate a little bit more money, we'll definitely get them next time.

  • At Trump's shitty speech, they all sat and waved their stupid signs while the only one of them with a fucking spine got walked out by security. Later, Democrats wearing #RESIST shirts politely walked themselves out of the building during the speech. Then they censured the guy with the spine.

I expect Nazi bullshit from the fucking Nazis. I expect the democrats to fucking show up and DO SOMETHING GOD DAMNIT.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I watched a Jon Stewart interview with an interesting premise. The guy being interviewed made a point that Trump promises change immediately whereas Biden’s platform would have made the us and the world better over years, decades

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Surprised democrats actually held the line on this one. Are they learning?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, Republicans definitely had this in the bag. Had there been a chance it wouldn't have gone through, at least a couple of them would have dissented and sided with the Republicans.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Well we'll see what happens in the senate...

Edit: I didn't read words correctly. Guess that insurmountable filibuster thing really isn't worth a damn is it?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, good point, they could've actually filibustered it and chose not to.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

According to this non-paywalled coverage, there are times when the filibuster doesn't apply to repealing laws:

The 1996 CRA gives Congress a 60-day window to repeal federal regulations with a simple majority vote in each chamber and the president’s signature. The clock resets in a new session of Congress for rules finalized toward the end of the previous congressional session.

Republican lawmakers are also eyeing CRA measures to repeal the CFPB’s larger participant rule for digital payment companies and its ban on the use of medical debt in consumer credit reports.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Funny how all the carveouts for the filibuster rules are all for stuff the Republicans care about: budget, appointments and apparently this regulation exception.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is what a GOP congress looks like. If you call yourself a fiscal conservative, I'm tell you what. Go fuck yourself.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago

Nice to see the Senate hard at work on America's most pressing problems.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's important to understand that it is now the philosophy of the Sociopathic Oligarchs and their trans-national corporations, that every person should die penniless, with nothing to pass on to their children.

When people reach middle age, and a bit older, they start to need their health care more, which is tied to their jobs, which are harder to find as you get older. That makes older workers more reliant on those jobs, making them more manipulative, and more accepting of abuse.

The wealthy don't like the fact that many older workers get inhertitances from one side of their marriage or the other, or perhaps both, and then suddenly they have options, and dont need the safety of their company any more. They can afford to find a lower stress job, or start their own (possibly competing) business, or they might just retire.

None of that is good for the wealthy. They want workers who are good little wage slaves, fully dependent on sociopaths to support their families. So now the strategy is to impoverish as many as possible before their deaths, so they have nothing to pass on to their children, to give them easier lives as they age.

So keep the banks fees up, keep property insurance high, keep property taxes high, and most of all make health care wildly expensive, difficult to access, predatory and parasitic. We always hear about most bankruptcies being cause by medical bills, which is frightening to most people, but music to the Sociopathic Oligarchs' ears. Those are people who had money, and lost it all, including their children's inheritance.

Of course the other tendril of the strategy is to kill Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, so people will work literally until their deaths. Retirment is for the wealthy. The rest of us need to keep grinding.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The solution?

Organize. Your. Fucking. Workplace.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. Unionize EVERYTHING!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep!

Organize your apartment buildings, into tenant unions!

Organize the block you live in.

Together we stand, divided we beg.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Michael Cohen became HitlerPig's "Fixer" because there was a tenant's strike in the HitlerPig-owned building where Cohen lived, and Cohen volunteered to kill the strike from the inside. He succeeded, and HitlerPig hired him.

Beware of snakes in the grass. Nazis always have informants sniffing around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

We need a general strike. Everyone needs to just stay home until we start seeing change

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's really unfortunate. Most banks and credit unions turn on overdraft protection by default. And many of them make it difficult to turn it off (burying it in online app/site menus, requiring people to call in or go into a branch to deactivate it, etc.). They do this because overdraft fees are a massive source of profit for them.

But it's pretty easy for people to get trapped in a vicious cycle of debt due to these fees. Most people don't know they can turn these off, and some don't even realize they are in place to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Back in the day, Wells Fargo would intentionally run higher charges first in their cycle so that people couldn't skirt the edges of overdraft. Like, if someone made a $35 purchase, and three $1 purchases over the same two day period, they would immediately run the $35 purchase and then charge three overdraft fees for each of the $1 purchases instead of running the three $1 purchases first (even if they came first) and then charging a single overdraft fee when the $35 purchase hit.

I believe they got a fine for it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe they got a fine for it.

They should be put up against a wall for it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of years ago when I had an account at BoA in college. Had two $20-ish charges when I had $30 in the account, and they tried to charge me TWO overdraft fees because $40 > $30. They kept going round and round that I had $40 in charges but only $30 in the bank, so they overdrafted. I kept repeating “which charge hit first?” I swear they danced around that for like 15 minutes, first that they couldn’t tell, then that they came in at the same time. Finally I said “okay, let’s say charge 1 was first. What was my balance then? Okay, let’s say charge 2 was first - what was my balance then?”

Took far longer to even get them to admit the mistake than it should’ve.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

And yet people continue to bank with Wells Fargo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I never pass on the opportunity to say fuck Wells Fargo.

Thus, fuck Wells Fargo.

Furthermore, to echo a comment further down, up against the wall with those shitcunts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Was the fine less than 1% of the profits?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Makes me so fucking mad. Government is for the fucking people not the fucking corporations Jesus fucking christ

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I went in person and my bank flat out doesn't allow you to turn it off.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

This?? THIS is what they spend their time on??

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Really looking out for the little guy, huh?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Of course if we had actual democratic leadership they'd be running ads about everything costing more because of Trump and saying Republicans want them to go deeper in debt paying for groceries when they can't make ends meet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

lol you can't turn off overdraft protection. I fucking tried. They wouldn't let me do it.

I am not using a major national bank, just a local/regional one from my hometown.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Find yourself a credit union. It will save you hundreds of dollars in fees, and they won''t have bullshit rules like this.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

And this will hit the people hardest who voted for them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

For years my bank had overdraft off by default. At some point, in one of their ToS or User Agreement updates, they turned overdraft on for everyone and you had to go in to turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

The senate has not overturned the rule; they've voted to overturn the rule. The rule is not overturned until this passes both halves of congress and the president. Sick of headlines lying about this shit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Line up sheeple, the fleecing is in progress

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The Democrats tried REALLY Hard to let this Pass so Americans can SUFFER and then Vote for the Not Trump Party!

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