Oh, those evil Democrats believe in (gasp) income redistribution!!!
Republicans would never do anything like that, would they?
Banks to Continue Paying Dividends
By Binyamin Appelbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 30, 2008; Page A01
U.S. banks getting more than $163 billion from the Treasury Department for new lending are on pace to pay more than half of that sum to their shareholders, with government permission, over the next three years.
There you have it, folks: middle-class tax dollars being "redistributed" to shareholders.
Next time, an explanation of how no-bid contracts to politically-connected companies brings free-market competition to government.