They don't want to do anything, they want everything handed to them.
The same could be said for the banks.
But they don't get if everyone did that, there wouldn't be anything to hand them.
Money, according to the Federal Reserve Bank, is created out of thin air. Apparently, only one class of citizen (banks) is "allowed" to create money. Whenever banks make a loan (business, mortgage, auto, credit card), they create the principle amount as a gift to themselves, tax free, and then get to loan that money at interest to the peasant who has to borrow.
Understand that the government can just create money out of thin air, like it creates bonds out of thin air. Instead, the government borrows from a bank that creates the money out of thin air. And the really sad thing, if that isn't sad enough, is that these banks aren't really creating money out of thin air, but fraudulently converting promissory notes.
When you ask a bank for a car loan of $20K, the bank has you sign a promissory note and security agreement. In order for them to legally own your promissory note, they have to first give you $20K to buy it from you, but they don't do that. They don't have $20K to give you. Instead, they take your note and endorse the back (like a check) and deposit it as an asset, giving them $20K cash value; the note is money, a cash equivalent that can be sold for cash. They record the deposit as a loan from the borrower to them, a bank liability, and that is why they don't pay taxes on the principle. The "money" the borrower receives is truly the money the bank borrowed from him to basically loan back to him.
And the "borrower" was unaware that any of these material terms existed; he consented to a real loan, not an unconscionable exchange of IOUs called a "loan." It's perhaps the perfect counterfeiting scam, perceived as legal while actually illegal, being repugnant to the Constitution and good morals.
If you haven't seen it, I suggest you watch The Secret of Oz. It's a good documentary on how our government borrows money, the obvious historical, perennial corruption of the monetary system, and historically proven ideas to fix the problem. It doesn't cover the loan mechanics and contract issues I've mentioned above, unfortunately.
The Occupy Wallstreeters who are crying for more taxes should watch that documentary, too. I'll pass on their general strike because I do not support their ideas for change, and I don't perceive they have communicated (as a movement) a message I can get behind.
