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To: Alberta's Child
Baloney. The "free market" often requires massive legal bills to hold shady lenders and debt collectors accountable.

If a lender commits a fraud the proper way to hold them accountable is a jail cell and a hefty penalty paid to their victims.

19 posted on 08/22/2015 3:38:33 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie
If a lender commits a fraud the proper way to hold them accountable is a jail cell and a hefty penalty paid to their victims.

You try getting a prosecutor interested in a case where someone is being ripped off by a debt collector to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. They'll be the first ones to tell you that it costs more to prosecute the case than they'd ever recover from the perpetrator.

That's why something like a CFPB complaint is often so effective. The CFPB functions like a national repository that allows one office to deal with @ssholes cumulatively without the time and expense of a criminal trial.

24 posted on 08/22/2015 7:51:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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