Big Banks Get Tax Break On Foreclosure Abuse Deal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/foreclosure-settlement-tax-break_n_2497827.html

In Iceland, the bankers responsible for the financial melt-down there went to prison. This did a great deal to restore faith in the integrity of the system. Not sending bankers to prison for white-collar crimes that destroy the lives of real people is the best possible way to make sure that both the bankers involved and their colleagues and the people whose lives they destroyed and other ordinary citizens like them understand that America is run by a wall street mafia as much as Sicily was run by the Sicilian mafia in the worst of the bad old days. Even in a country where voter suppression is openly practiced and prideful admitted, even in a country where gerrymandered districts give a Republican Party that received a minority of the votes in house races nationwide more seats (233) than the party that received the majority of votes (201), many, many more of the people who actually cast ballots are victims of white-collar crime or their loved ones than are white-collar criminals. Why would Jews vote for Nazis? Why would slaves vote against their own emancipation? Why is there a single Republican left serving in office anywhere in America?