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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (40454)	1/14/2010 1:05:11 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The Too-Big-to-Fail Tax 4 comments by: Felix Salmon January 13, 2010 about: C / BAC / GS / MS / JPM / WFC seekingalpha.com Barry Ritholtz knows what he’d like to see in terms of a new bank tax, and I like the way he’s thinking: Exempt small regional banks with under $25 billion in deposits. Make the tax progressive so it become increasingly larger as deposits become greater. $25-$50 billion in deposits is one fee (Let’s say 0.1%, that’s $25 million on $25 billion in assets). Have it scale to the point where its punitive — 1% on a trillion dollars in deposits. The goal here isn’t to raise money — its to force the TBTF banks to become smaller — to break up the Citigroups and the Bank of Americas. This tax will restore competition to the banking industry. I think that total liabilities are a better number to use than total deposits: we want this tax to apply to Goldman Sachs (GS) as well as Wells Fargo (WFC). Barry’s plan might not be far from what the Obama administration wants to do — although I doubt that the fee will approach a full 1% of liabilities, no matter how big a bank gets. Shahien Nasiripour has talked to “a senior administration official”, who says that the tax is designed to claw back from too-big-to-fail banks the windfall they’re getting from their TBTF status. (Dean Baker calculates that windfall as being $34 billion a year.) The banking industry, when this tax is announced on Thursday, will certainly start making noises about how the extra costs are going to be passed on to customers. And I daresay they’re right: if you bank with a TBTF bank, you might well see your costs rise. So move your money to somewhere smaller! Comments: Graham and Dodd Investor Moving your money to a "small" bank will avoid these charges. And make the big banks smaller. Jan 13 12:18 PM ! ValueInvestor I'm sure the banks would pass any fee on to customers. Take your money to a credit-union instead. They provide the exact same service and don't rip you off. etc....