[Toddsterpatriot]

In short, the tarp was paid back by a sell of stock to the fed,

The banks have not repaid TARP by selling stock to the Federal Reserve.

[org.whodat]

What Bank of America has done is simply replace one form of taxpayer sponsored capital (TARP) with equity and another form of taxpayer sponsored capital--loans from the Fed. Those loans carry super-low interest rates, so they'll help Bank of America make more money at taxpayer expense. Those loans also, importantly, come with NONE of the restrictions that TARP does.

Well tell the writer he is lying.