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> No one knows that taxpayers will have to pay anything for any of this. It's possible they'll end up ahead.

Wouldn't SVB have been sold at auction by the FDIC if that were likely to happen?

I don't want to see startups fail or people lose their jobs, but this all feels like a cloaked way of passing the cost of the bailout onto the taxpayers (via raised FDIC fees that will trickle down).




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