>>We're subsidizing deadbeats in housing on the backs of the responsible, why should credit cards be any different?
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>>http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/107096/Credit-Card-Industry-Aims-to-Profit-From-Sterling-Payers?sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode
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>>I sure am glad to see 95 senators get behind the concept of sucking up to deadbeat voters.
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>That is the bulwark of the Democratic party. Of course they suck up to them.

No party difference here this is the current MO of the political class.

Just over 43% of the country pays no or negative income tax thanks to tax code tinkering starting in the late nineties.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/15/politics/otherpeoplesmoney/main4945874.shtml