Yes, I know many of you don't have business degrees, and are probably don't even have anything higher than a high school education. Some of you are pro-Obama, pro-Socialist, and probably anti-corporation for whatever reason you feel is true.
So I'm going to dumb it down for you.
Obama is going to toss a tax to banks for repaying the TARP (thats the bailout money that Bush started, and he doubled as soon as he came into office) even though most of them already paid back their loans in full, or have not taken out a loan in the first place.
Its pretty much Robin Hood tactics, steal from the rich (or in this case, tax them) and give it to the poor (or in this case, the government, and I seriously doubt anyone would consider the government poor, even with the worlds biggest $1,000,000,000,000+ debt it owes). Except this won't be like the story, you aren't going to see one cent of this money.
What you will see, however, is more businesses going out in business thanks to the following: Higher fees to businesses for making loans, higher fees to the customers for monthly business (i.e. checking fees and all that) and more taxes to come when this looks to be "sucessful" in the short term.
Less businesses out there means less jobs for people to have, which also means higher unemployment.
Our major problem is not the national debt, but the unemployment rate, which is just under 10%.
We need to stop punishing the rich, it is not working. Has things really improved at all since Mr. Obama taken office? According to the most recent economic factors, it hasn't. The "improvements" that the media is showing lately is because of the year-by-year analysis from last year. We have slowed down our recession, but thats because of the huge dip it took right after Mr. Obama was elected, and it "improved" because we didn't take such a big dip as last year....
...I don't know about you, but downward is not improvement...
Taxing banks to recover "unrecoverable" money even though they had absolutly nothing to do with it is not the right solution.