What is the most effective way for society to deal with the bankers' $billion bonuses?

[brentspeak]

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Seize the assets of GoldMansacks

And give every last fucking dollar to the poor. Repeat this procedure with every other Wall Street criminal enterprise, and then move on to the insurance companies.

Class warfare? You bet your ass, and it's time we fought back.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. What he said! n/t

[StarfarerBill]

4. Right on: expropriation.

[Berry Cool]

5. Start with disaster relief, both at home and abroad.

Earmark the taxes on their bonuses specifically for that purpose and there won't be nearly as much righteous outcry about how "it's their money, they earned it, they should get to keep it."

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Absolutely!

[wtbymark]

2. no instant fix but...

campaign finance reform - revoke personhood for corporations - repeal the Reagan Tax cuts
-glass-steagall -- enforce Shermann anti-trust - reimpose import tarrifs

-off the top of my head

[jillan]

6. I like Arianna's idea of moving your money out of the big banks to community banks.

I have my mortgage thru Bank of America, and I was thinking of calling around and giving my business to a smaller bank.

[IndianaGreen]

7. The guillotine!

Heads will roll.

[harun]

8. Other: eliminate usary.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. +1,000,000

[QC]

11. I vote for le guillotine, but then I am the old-fashioned, sentimental type.

Where is Robespierre when you need him?