Bank tax may pay for bailout, deter risk

Courtesy Marketplace  Thu, 01/14/2010 - 12:33

President Obama has proposed a tax on banks that would be used to cover the government's losses from the bank bailout.

But the tax would also be intended to head off a future financial crisis. Nancy Marshall Genzer explains.


 

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