This article, from before the election, reads like a recap of Romney's campaign failure. This was not truly a failure because Romney couldn't speak out against the bank subsidies. The Libertarians could have taken this issue and attracted Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street voters.
Mitt and the Moochers
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Romney is right to raise the issue of subsidies, but he badly
misstates what has happened in the US during the last four years. The
big, nontransparent, and dangerous subsidies are off-budget, contingent
liabilities generated by government support for too-big-to-fail
financial institutions. These subsidies do not appear in any annual
appropriation, and they are not well measured by the government - which
is part of what makes them so appealing to the big banks and so damaging
to everyone else.
If only Romney had turned popular disdain for subsidies against the
global megabanks, he would now be coasting into the White House.
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