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Ted Cruz: “The Fed is transferring your tax dollars to the biggest…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Senator Ted Cruz Discusses Democratic Party's Decline, Federal Reserve Policy, and Gambling Tax Reform

Published | Video Starts at 16:54

Wow. Last year, that's just pure tax hours. You're paying your taxes and that money is just going to interest, period, interest to giant banks. So it is literally, The Fed is transferring your tax dollars to the biggest banks in the world. Now it gets worse. So they no longer have a requirement, a reserve requirement of, say, 10%. There's actually no requirement at all. You know why? (16:54–16:59)

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Asserts that the Federal Reserve is transferring taxpayer money to large banks.

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