Just sticking with $1 per week per protestor, if a million people join in that's a minimum of $52 million dollars a year.
But this is not a march on Washington. A million people is nowhere near the limit. And, for many people, switching $35 per week of plastic spending to cash is nothing.
Visa cardholders in the U.S. spend more than $1 trillion a year on their cards. (Source: Visa USA internal statistics, 4th quarter 2006.)
So, it's easy to easy to imagine putting a hurt on Big Banking to the tune of a billion dollars a year. That's just $35 billion in plastic spending switched to cash, only3.5% of Visa's annual volume.
This relatively easy, non-violent action against the banking abuses and financial scams that continue to plague our economic system has many advantages:
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