Wall Street Banks: Pay Us Back

Just six banks are giving out enough in bonuses to nearly cover every state's estimated budget shortfall this year.

How can the banks reward themselves like it was some sort of banner year? The least they can do is pay us back before they lavish all that money on themselves.

If they won't pay it back, we need to take it back. Sign our letter to your members of Congress, calling for a fee on the banks to recoup our bailout money.

Dear Members of Congress:

We are outraged that the banks who received billions of bailout dollars directly from the TARP program, then even more from the taxpayer bailout of AIG (which used much of it to pay them) and then more from the Federal Reserve, have now declared billions of dollars in bonuses without fully paying back taxpayers.

It's time to put Main Street first. Support President Obama's new fee on the big banks who took taxpayer funds and used them to make massive profits and declare massive bonuses without getting the economy moving again.