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The New York Times reports today:
President Obama plans to call on Thursday for taxing about 50 big banks and major financial institutions for at least the next decade to recoup all taxpayer losses from the bailout of Wall Street.
The tax on banks, insurance companies and brokerages with more than $50 billion in assets would start after June 30 and seek to collect $90 billion over 10 years, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters late Wednesday.
Ouch! That’s hitting ’em where they hurt. Why, that comes to….$9 billion per year. So Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs and Citigroup can probably be expected to fork over, oh, maybe $500 million each. I wonder if their accountants will even notice it?
