Kucinich to Introduce "Responsible Bankers Act"

[Mari333]

January 12, 2010 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich is seeking a 75% tax on the extraordinary bonuses that bankers are planning to pay themselves through the use of windfall profits earned from massive taxpayer support of the financial services industry.

Congressman Kucinich introduced legislation on Tuesday, January 12, 2009 to impose the tax, stating the "Responsible Bankers Act" will not penalize banks for making a profit, but rather will tax the bonus pools that are set aside. On December 10, 2009, Congressman Kucinich indicated that he intended to introduce legislation to "Tax Bankers' Bonuses." After the introduction of the "Responsible Bankers Act," Congressman Kucinich released the following statement:










http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2874&Itemid=76

[Brickbat]

1. Let me know when it gets somewhere.

[Blue-Jay]

20. Don't hold your breath.

[WeDidIt]

2. That'll end up sitting on the desk of some staffer in some chiarman of some sub-committee's office

for the next eight or twelve years.

[Mari333]

3. at least someone is actually TRYING to hold them accountable.

[tbyg52]

5. +1

I'll take your reply to the give-up-er's.

[G_j]

18. He's not kidding either

I love watching him grill the insurance people and banksters.
What's not to like?

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[tbyg52]

10. I'm not sure what you are saying.

Are you saying that standing up for the people is the future? If so, I hope you are right.

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[tbyg52]

19. Well, from what I've seen of Grayson, I'm behind him.

Edited to add that I don't think that's incompatible with being behind Kucinich.

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[tbyg52]

24. Well, as long as we're trading quotes

"I belong to no organized political party. I am a Democrat." Will Rogers

[Stevepol]

21. To be transparent is to be "honest." That, in a nutshell is Kucinich.

As for playing to an audience, I assume you mean his "constituents."

If you just mean it psychologically, do you mean there are actually politicians who are NOT playing to an audience? In fact, who doesn't play to an audience?

I love Grayson, but he's playing to an audience big time, both his constituents and a larger American audience.

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[tbyg52]

26. False dichotomy. nt

[HarveyDarkey]

27. If Obama talked about (and promised it)

why should we have to rely on a freshman congressman to make it happen? Has Obama's time (as an effective leader) come and gone?

[BunkerHill24]

6. I guess introducing legislation is different than legislation passing Congress?

[Mari333]

7. again, he tries. He is up against congresspeople who are whores for the bankers

thank god someone tries to fight the system that owns DC.

[BunkerHill24]

17. I don't want take anything away from Rep. Kucinich who want to introduce as legislation

But we are all stack-up here legislations-from-legislation....nothing from-anything-on-anything.

[flvegan]

8. DLC apologists SWARM!!!!

[Mari333]

9. hahaha. pfft.

[Political Heretic]

11. Another well-intentioned effort that would go nowhere. The system itself is the problem.

[Mari333]

14. Tim and Rahm will make sure it never happens. nt

[tbyg52]

16. >> The system itself is the problem.

I sure agree with you there.

[ProSense]

12. So now it's cool to tax bonuses? What happened to

the faux outrage claiming it was unconstitutional when Obama proposed it?

[bluestateguy]

13. I criticize Kucinich a lot

but this is one idea I have no problem fully supporting.

[highplainsdem]

25. K&R