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According to an article in the Washington Post, this year the government will spend at least $890,000 on service fees for bank accounts that are actually empty
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All that nothin' adds up. The government is required to pay $65 per year, per account, to keep them on the books. Thomas A. Schatz of Citizens Against Government Waste points out that any citizen getting charged for the privilege of maintaining an empty bank account would do everything possible to close it.
The Obama administration says it's working on the problem. Back in 2011, the number of empty accounts was 28,000. And last year, the Government Accountability Office put the cost of maintaining empty bank accounts at $2.1 million a year.
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A new proposal in New York City would increase the age to legally buy cigarettes from 18 to 21. If enacted, the Big Apple would have the strictest limits of any major American city. The outcry is what anyone would expect - old enough to fight for their country but not old enough to buy cigarettes? Those who Surgeon General's report that says 90 percent of smokers admit they had already started smoking by age 18
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