🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <eji79492etbj5iod9rjhoo5kqvk8k9lv0g@4ax.com>,
 Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In message <betatron-39FB66.17124801082008@news.ftupet.com>, max
> <betatron@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >In article <f96694ppkcmvg7odukod76rphdfsptfot0@4ax.com>,
> > Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Observation #2: One has to live on the ragged edge of financial
> >> disaster - literally paycheck-to-paycheck - for this to ever become an
> >> issue.
> >
> >A great many people live like that, and let us collectively count our 
> >blessings that we ain't them.
> >
> >This stuff  [overdrafting], and the like falls under the business model 
> >of Profit By Gotcha!       I don't like it. it's not honest.
> 
> It's just another Moron Tax, like lottery tickets and cigarettes.

Lotto and smokes are pretty well understood, and they are classic -- 
biblical-style vices.   

You can't realistically compare cigarette fees to the ODP scam. Smoke 
taxes are pretty up front.  90% of consumers have no idea how the ODP 
scam works, because the banks out and out lie about it.

.max

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