Last week, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a new piece of legislation that would cap credit card interest rates at 15% called the Loan Shark Prevention Act. The two argue that this kind of intervention in the markets is necessary in order to protect consumers from the “greed” of the credit card and banking industries. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez both believe that banks and credit card companies are taking advantage of the poor by charging “extortion level interest rates.
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