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I have this sinking feeling rice pudding for brains will try and bail out people with credit card debt.
1 posted on 02/22/2024 6:30:02 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Usury.


2 posted on 02/22/2024 6:31:02 AM PST by EEGator
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I have this sinking feeling rice pudding for brains will try and bail out people with credit card debt.

Yep. I think that's why a lot of people are maxxing their credit cards, they expect a bailout.

3 posted on 02/22/2024 6:31:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Any moment now, Joe will go on TV to complain about credit card companies ripping off consumers with high interest rates and to tell them to “do the right thing” by reducing rates.


4 posted on 02/22/2024 6:31:51 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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It is essential that all this debt - all of it - be cancelled.

It’s a drag on production, and it counts in GDP on the creditor side even though most of it will never be paid - the Treasury equivalent of NFL dead cap space.

Read your Bible.


5 posted on 02/22/2024 6:32:23 AM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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I just got a notice that my credit card rate was increasing. I pay it off every month so that is not a problem with me.


6 posted on 02/22/2024 6:33:08 AM PST by Parley Baer
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Two taxes on the math challenged are lotteries and CC interest. At 29% you are paying twice the cost in 2.5 years. Talk about measly inflation rates.


8 posted on 02/22/2024 6:33:53 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The surge in the overall average APR comes as credit card debt has hit an all time high.

Basically people are renting money so they don't have to wait until they've saved up for what they want. That can be risky.

And interest rates?

Biden's foolish spending is causing interest rates to go up, price of groceries to go up, prices of housing to go up... and the price to rent money to go up. Elections have consequences...

12 posted on 02/22/2024 6:41:38 AM PST by GOPJ ( New York Bank loans can bankrupt YOU if some Soros Bimbo doesn't like you. Just ask Trump.)
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The average annual percentage rate (APR) on credit cards nearly doubled to 22.8 percent in 2023

During the mafia days, that would be considered loan sharking.....

13 posted on 02/22/2024 6:43:13 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, All the credit companies are incorporated in Delaware for a reason. Biden has been bought and paid for, for many many years, he will NOT go against them for any reason.


15 posted on 02/22/2024 6:52:02 AM PST by eyeamok
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Re: "$25 billion in credit card interest"

$25 billion is not that much money when you consider that 190 million Americans have a credit card.

Averages out at $132 per card holder.

Instantly available credit is a luxury (or curse) that most Earth residents have never had.

I am glad I have the option, since I never know when I might need it.

18 posted on 02/22/2024 6:58:09 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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Yup. Joey Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyyyy’s Credit Card “Forgiveness” Club. The Dung Beetle Party has given out millions of credit cards to their new illegal alien voter base and they’ve got to be paid off somehow.


19 posted on 02/22/2024 6:58:30 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (John Oliver is a racist liberal biatch.)
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Like I did with my student loans, I am paying off credit cards and not using those with higher interest rates, however paying cash is getting difficult as more and more merchants will not accept cash. It’s only a matter of time before the Big Guy seeking his election will bailout credit card debt, particularly if someone is caregorized as DEI or illegal immigrant .


21 posted on 02/22/2024 7:06:07 AM PST by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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I thought exactly the same thing, Biden will cancel credit card debt.

What I suspect he’ll do is order these companies to cancel debt and legislate “new, more equitable” interest rates for credit cards.

Glad I paid the damned things off decades ago and haven’t used one since...


26 posted on 02/22/2024 7:28:43 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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