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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “If you can write off billions of fines as the cost of simply doing business, how are overdraft fees anything other than…”

On the recordApril 9, 2019
If you can write off billions of fines as the cost of simply doing business, how are overdraft fees anything other than an ideological tool to simply further punish the poor?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Questions the justification of overdraft fees in light of banks' fines.

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