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