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Republicans Vote to Let Banks Screw Over Working Americans (www.rollingstone.com)

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[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 62 points 6 days ago

Punish the poor for being poor, and charge them even more.

Yeah this is definitely what all these republican christians think jesus would have wanted. Psychopaths.

[-] Doogos@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

If any of these people actually believed in Jesus' teachings, they would likely consider trump the antichrist. But, here we are

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Fuckin hell. I don't believe in Jesus, but I still somehow think that Trump is the antichrist.

[-] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 46 points 6 days ago

While in Canada, the government is working to cap it at $10, in the US the government is telling the lower income families to go fuck themselves. Disgusting.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

The very idea of overdraft is stupid in the modern world. Just deny the transaction if I don’t have the money.

[-] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

The easy solution is to just disable overdraft protection, and that's exactly what will happen.

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

Cant with my bank.. they took away the option.

[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Are you in the US? They can't. It's legally required to be opt-in with affirmative consent.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

what they can do is burry the setting on the website and make it impossible to find. Or have it error out every time you try to change it.

[-] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago

quoting Mel Brooks's Roman senate "..fuck the poor!"

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

[Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the only Republican to join Democrats in opposing the resolution, disagrees. “Why would we help the big banks at the expense of working people?” Hawley asked reporters following the vote, per Semafor. “I just don’t understand it.”]

Wow I would have never guessed that Jog Hallway of all people would be on the people's side of this.

[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 8 points 6 days ago

Corruption runs deep

[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

That is one durable paywall. Here’s a NYT gift link if any fellow poors want to read about it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/overdraft-fees-limit-cfpb.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U4.0eSp.lp_fuOgr-Bs3&referringSource=articleShare

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Paywall removed

https://archive.is/k3k7w

[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Funny, I use a macro for this and it just wouldn’t work for me. Thanks.

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

It sucks that it was passed yet my bank never only charged me 5 bucks..

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