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'So Much for Lowering Costs': Fury Over Musk's Death Wish for CFPB That Returned Over $20 Billion to Consumers (www.commondreams.org)
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"The richest man in the world wants to shut down an agency that keeps people like him from ripping off the rest of us."

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[–] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

By fire, do you mean like set him on fire?

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

There is an important reason for this. Billionaires make less money when consumers are protected