Said it was a tax being used as punishment...
These folks who collected this bonus did so legally. We may not like it, but it was all legal.
The tax is being levied against them at some outrageous 90%, because people got mad about the bonus. I heard words like extortion (Frank) and justice (Pelosi).
Who is congress to make accusations of extortion and mete out justice? Who is congress to circumvent appropriate court action to reclaim the funds? If they had been indeed ill-gotten gains?
As so many on FR have often told me, that is politics. AIG is the pariah today, and that is part of the game. They got their money, and have paid off the DNC already, so this is just part of the dog and pony show to appease the masses.
Kind of like show trials.