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The group of people who are unbanked (not funding a bank that funds the FDIC) and only interacting with other unbanked people and but are paying taxes must be rather small.

Its the same failure mode regardless if played via everyone paying taxes or everyone paying FDIC, privatize the gains and socialize the losses until collapse.

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I think what you're describing is insurance, not taxes. I'm sure almost all auto insurance is paid by taxpayers, too, but I wouldn't call auto insurance a tax

> Its the same failure mode regardless if played via everyone paying taxes or everyone paying FDIC...

But if everyone is paying FDIC via fees levied against private banks, then the POTUS and Yellen and everyone else can release a statement saying "no taxpayer funds will be used to bail out SVB". That way everyone can breathe an ironic sigh of relief: "Oh good, I was worried I was going to have to foot the tax bill for that. It's bad enough I have to pay all these greedy capitalists at my local bank a new fee every other week, at least the government is looking out for the little guy!"

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