• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    The general concern is if you remove the overdraft fee as a tool, banks will just require a minimum or cancel you.

    If financially struggling families can’t even access basic banking, they are further disenfranchised and removed from a stability, and eventually wealth generation

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      10 months ago

      Sounds like a great time to actually bring back postal banking if the “job creators” can’t handle just making “some money” instead of " lots of money" from these accounts.

      I’m sure the post office would be glad to have the “some money.”

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        10 months ago

        Sounds fine. And unfortunately banks are extremely real job creators. The existence of loaned capital to start business, pay employees and so on are a course of business development.

        Ultimately, weather you like them or not, you can’t force a business to work with a given customer, especially if that customer is unreliable or requires more work.

        I agree the time of government is to look after people with less/no concern for their profitability, especially when basic well-being and stability are in play.

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        10 months ago

        Well under Obama there was that weird sorta savings account thing they had. I dropped twenty bucks in it just to check it out. They ended the program I think in 2014.