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The funny thing is, you want to posture with things that are popular, to show what you could/would do with more power. And according to polling, this isn’t popular even with their base. Probably very popular with their corporate donors though.
Bunch of dangerous dumbasses
Until the punishment is worse than the crime it won’t stop. >

And that's the bottom line. >

And THAT'S...
...the REST of the story. >

17 counts, 15 years and the best they could come up with was $1.6 million??? >

Fines should be pegged at 10x-25x the valued "savings" from the scheme >

The people responsible should be pegged, too. >

What if they enjoy that sort of thing? >

Then use hot sauce for lube. >

What if they enjoy that sort of thing? >

Don't use the sauce then. >

Maybe sand? >

So basically stole money for years and had to pay it back with a negative interest rate. >

Turns out, when you the lower the bar far enough down, it does show you he was smart! >

That was under welming....probably made more on interest from fraud >

It’s hilarious. They probably spent more on their legal bills just this quarter. >

Most of he legal bills are paid for by the RNC. >

The rich can get away with anything in this fucking country. $1.6mil? That's nothing, absolutely disgraceful. >

It's the maximum fine allowable. The laws should change.
If it feels better, there's also a $250M civil suit going on >

Meanwhile, first thing congressional republicans voted to do is gut the IRS to prevent tax code enforcement. >

It doesn't matter what the house does since it'll never pass the senate and on the extremely rare chance it does Biden would veto it.
The house Republicans know this and are just posturing not accomplishing anything. >

Yes, but they are indicating what their top priority is if they do get power, and it’s just gross. Apparently they’re all into law enforcement when it comes to poor people, but not for the rich. I’m no liberal, but shit like that makes me super anti-republican.