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    Mortgages make the bank money.

    If only there was some kind of large collection that represented the people that could offer loans for cost or near cost instead.

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      represented the people

      Founding fathers laughing in corporate interests

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        You’d be surprised what they would support. Until the neoliberals killed capitalism there wasn’t really that much problem with the idea of governments running public services.

        Hell, usury is a sin. Very clearly defined as such, biblically. You tell them the US government is in a position to act as an interest-free loan office and they probably wouldn’t have any real problems with the idea.

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          “Hell, usury is a sin. Very clearly defined as such, biblically.”

          Ayyyy that would be a wonderful thing to bring up to a Dominionist Republican and watch them struggle between “need to force people to believe we’re a religious nation” and “we cannot give the people services, they must pay.

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          Until the neoliberals killed capitalism

          Capitalism is very much not dead (though it does smell rotten)