[belter]

"Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...

"Congress approves $700 billion Wall Street bailout" - https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/worldbusiness/03...

July 20, 2008 -> "...it's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation..." - Henry Paulson

November 20, 2008 -> "...We are working through a severe financial crisis caused by many factors, including government inaction and mistaken actions, outdated U.S. and global financial regulatory systems, and by the excessive risk-taking of financial institutions..." - Henry Paulson

[memefrog]

The US got paid back and then some. Not at all the same as an arbitrary ad-hoc tax on success.

Should the Silicon Valley banks that have recently failed also pay a windfall tax? And if not, why tax success? Because it's clearly not a 'windfall' if it only goes to people that made good predictions and not ones that made bad predictions.

[belter]

> "...why tax success? " -> That is how Taxes are supposed to work.