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Poor people don't have the credit to get credit cards, so they go to Green Dot and get charged exorbinant [sic] amounts of money. His business is one of the heaviest into the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

This is a bit unfair to Green Dot. First of all I don't think their fees are that high. Secondly it's not their fault that most merchants and services expect everyone to have a bank account and nineteen credit cards. That didn't used to be the case, and eliminating credit cards would do much more to help the poor than eliminating Green Dot.



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