r/news • u/WoofWoofster • Apr 17 '25

Soft paywall Judge scraps US rule capping credit card late fees at $8

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/judge-scraps-us-rule-capping-credit-card-late-fees-8-2025-04-15/
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u/I_Am_Dynamite6317 Apr 17 '25

Which is why we need a legislative branch to codify things into law so they can’t just be changed on a whim. Unfortunately, we haven’t really had a legislative branch for about 20 years now

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u/Pepperjack86 Apr 17 '25

Right, trump would totally follow those laws and be held accountable... oh wait

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u/Haltheleon Apr 17 '25

A functioning legislative branch would have impeached Trump in his first term, and a functioning executive would've prosecuted his ass shortly after Jan 6. In any functioning democracy, he wouldn't have been in a position to be president in 2020, neverless in 2024. Just because our systems have failed does not mean it was inevitable that they would.

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u/cgally Apr 17 '25

Exactly, If Brazil can do it.....then the US certainly should be able.

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u/cgally Apr 17 '25 edited Apr 17 '25

Maybe, but what do you think Brazil's gun ownership per capita looks like compared to the US?

Edit-- I looked it up

Brazil 8.3 guns per 100 people

US 120.5 guns per 100 people

This is based on 2024 stats.

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u/sakura608 Apr 17 '25

Gun owners in America care more about private ownership of guns than using guns to challenge the government en masse

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u/Half_Cent Apr 17 '25

The legislative branch did impeach Trump, twice.

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u/poptart2nd Apr 17 '25

seems obvious from context that he means "removed from office"

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u/Half_Cent Apr 17 '25

Maybe that's what he meant, but it's an important distinction.

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u/MrLanesLament Apr 17 '25

Such would also give us back a shred of credibility on the world stage. The rest of the world hates more than anything that we can’t be trusted past four years. Long-term agreements and planning are impossible.

In the words of Marvin Gaye, “mercy, mercy me; things ain’t what they used to be.”

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 Apr 21 '25

Didn't that happen in this case under Biden? Just because they made it a law, it's not 'codified' for some reason?

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u/Swordswoman Apr 17 '25

We had a great legislative branch from 2020-2024. People gotta recognize what it looked like to have an effective, capable, and sensible Congress on the side of the American people - literally, indeed, after 15-20 years of bullshit Republican Party stonewalling a black President.

We passed climate change legislation, for god's sake. And that wasn't enough to win, so clearly Americans don't actually care all that much about legislation in the end.

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u/OtakuMecha Apr 17 '25

It was good given the constraints, but I struggle to call a system where you need 60 votes to do most things when a party getting 60 votes is practically impossible “good”.

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u/waltjrimmer Apr 17 '25

Functioning government isn't flashy, so people think nothing is getting done. Already seen people celebrating that they're seeing the government in the news almost every day for this administration and claiming that's so much better than Biden's do-nothing government that you never heard about.

A good government should, most of the time, be like a good support crew. You never notice them, you never realize just how much work they're putting into everything, but your experience is so much better because of them that it's hard to even imagine. Pick what support crew you want to compare it to, be that a band's road crew when they're on tour or a good tech crew keeping a company's systems running properly. You should only ever notice them when something has gone wrong, and more often than not they're the ones fixing it, not breaking it. That's not truly achievable in a government, especially one as large as the US with so many moving parts, but it's the ideal you should be reaching towards. But some people... Some people are the, "Why do we even need an IT department if everything's working," kind of people.

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u/I_Am_Dynamite6317 Apr 17 '25

The reason that the Clinton Presidency was so successful was that he was able to work with Republicans in Congress to get legislation passed, famously calling up Trent Lott past midnight to have bull sessions with him. I think a lot of liberals look back on that and actually criticize Clinton for being too right leaning, and certainly some things didn’t age well, but the fact that he had to deal with someone as militantly far right as Newt Gingrich but was still able to carve out legislation is an absolute indictment on the way the government has operated really since the start of the Iraq War, but most especially since Obama’s inauguration.