The organizer for Bank Transfer Day said she was tired of fee increases and limited access to her money at large corporate banks.
Bachmann said that Pres. Barack Obama and the Occupy Wall Street movement need to stop blaming job creators. Instead, she proposed that corporate tax rates need to be cut and regulatory “burdens” lifted.
Wells Fargo posted $49 billion in profits from 2008-2010, but had an effective tax rate of -1.4 percent.
North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad said American Crystal Sugar “needs to think long and hard about the consequences of their strategy.”
Franken said the rule change could “disproportionately affect” agricultural producers “without necessarily improving student nutrition,” according to a press release.
Wells Fargo is among the banks that has reconsidered new fees after consumers balked.
For-profit colleges and companies that provide private student loans are big donors to Rep. John Kline’s campaign.
The pollster said Walker could benefit if the recall effort became a referendum on the wisdom of recalls rather than his performance in office.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, while on a recent tour of flooded areas near the Missouri River in Iowa, characterized the government settlement with black farmers as fraud
The Minnesota Independent covered issues ranging from American Crystal Sugar’s negotiations with a locked out union to an anti-abortion activist planning to use campaign laws in a run against Rep. Keith Ellison to force Twin Cities media to run graphic anti-abortion ads.
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