This is why we need truth in advertising regulation of front groups
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 22:30 How many ways can I say: “Simply not true.”
But on it goes, when one front group leaves the airwaves, another steps in. Who are they? Who do they really represent? What is their real agenda?
Stop Too Big to Fail, hiding behind C4CC - Consumers for Competitive Choice, would like you to believe the following:
“Now Congress is considering so-called ‘financial reform’ legislation which would authorize even more bailouts for big banks - paid for by hidden taxes on our pensions, retirement accounts and saving”. [Stop Too Big To Fail press release, 4/15/10]
Once again, it takes deductive powers worthy of Sherlock Holmes and persistance to ferret out who’s on first with these groups. They say one thing at the bottom of the screen, but their websites aren’t marvels of transparency.
Least of all about who they - and their stakeholders - are about.
