[gorjusborg]

> funded via tax revenue, just like everything else the government does

FDIC assessments and taxes are different. You can over-simplify mentally to a tax, but that doesn't make it true.

The FDIC runs more like an insurance provider than a run-of-the-mill government agency.

[rcme]

Social security and Medicare are also a form of insurance. Are you not paying a social security and Medicare tax? How is that different?