I believe it is an amendment that Congress needs to pass and that the American people need to have. It is a one-shot windfall profit tax on a very appropriately designed group of executives who benefitted enormously from the contributions the American taxpayers made in order to bail out the economy as opposed to bailing out banks specifically.
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