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Why not? Are they not bailed out indirectly?

• eloff 6y ago
  No. That's not taxpayer money anymore. If you buy a car at a dealership and they take that money and donate it to ISIS, did you just support terrorism? No, the dealer did. You only bought a car.
  • endisneigh 6y ago
    We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Personally, if I give you a dollar and you give that dollar to someone else, I'd say that I had indirectly given the final person a dollar.
    • eloff 6y ago
      It's indirect. So that doesn't make it a bailout anymore.
      • endisneigh 6y ago
        That's not what bailout means... The direct or indirectness of the money flow is unrelated to whether or not something is a bailout.
        • eloff 6y ago
          A bailout is a discrete event. It happened, it's over. Citadel still exists as a company thanks to the AG bailout. That does not mean everything citadel ever buys is now a government bailout. That's just silly.
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