How about throwing us an economic bone?

Published April 5, 2011 4:00am ET



You gotta love the representative Ron Paul. Who else but the Texas Libertarian-turned-Republican-turned-Tea Party favorite would introduce legislation with an admonishment to Congress to stop treating the American public like babies?

H.R. 1095 may be called the Freedom to Bank Act. But its official title as introduced, is this: “To sunset federal laws and regulations which treat the American people like children by denying them the opportunity to make their own decision regarding control of their bank accounts and what type of information they wish to receive from their banks, and for other purposes.”

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