
How the 1% get wealthy and banks screw you:
1. They establish separate legal entities such as a corporation or LLC that shields them from liability such as bankruptcy.
2. The weathly gain access to capital such as loans from the bank. The bank secures the money from the deposits that are made by the 99%.
3. Even though your money is at risk, you are not provided any substantial return from this loan that is made to this legal entity called a corporation that shields the assets of the wealthy from failure.
4. The taxpayer and depositor (you) pays deposit insurance to the bank indirectly, FDIC or secondary mortgage market, that will take over the bank if the loans go bad and causes failure. Again, you assume the risk and/or pay money for deposit insurance for loans that are made which provide almost no return in interest.
5. Upon receipt of the funds from the loan, the business owner sets up shop and begins to produce their product.
6. If they succeed the capital that you risked is paid back and you get almost nothing (or deficit from charges and overdraft fees). If they fail, they simply walk away with millions of dollars in salary stashed in their bank accounts. Their separate legal entity files bankruptcy and their personal assets are protected.
7. The costs of the deposit insurance program is paid by you through low interest rates, fees, and other mechanism. However, the money for this program should come 100% through the interest rate on the loans that are made and not the depositor. The depositor does not cause their money to become unavailable due to default, it is the borrower that creates the risk. Over 10 years, $150 billion dollars is paid by the banks that gets passed on to depositors.
8. Prior to the FDIC and the Great Depression, depositor assumed an enormous risk of default by borrowers indirectly, yet were paid a pittance in interest rate. The bank pocketed the money that you provided, while the borrower made all kinds of money off of your 'investment'.
A perfect example is Fisker Automotive, Solyndra, or the real estate speculators. The taxpayers and depositors provide a loan and risk capital. If this company succeeds, they get super rich off the money that you risked to them as a taxpayer and/or depositor. If they fail, they walk away with their high salaries and their personal assets are protected. You get nothing if they win, and assume the loss if they go belly up.

Instead of charging the banks for the deposit insurance program, the FDIC should impose a charge on the borrowers. The FDIC should go to the borrowers and state the following:
Because you are using money from depositors, in the event of default, which may cause the bank to be unable to meet withdrawal requests and cause systemic panic, you will have to pay a surcharge based on the balance of your loan.
Billions of dollars of wealth has been stolen from depositors, rather than charged to the borrower. Last time I checked, my deposit does not cause banks to fail.


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