Example #8,469: Government Motors. They gave billions to prop up a business that has an increasingly difficult time making a profit, mainly because the voracious unions want, want, want everything without giving up anything. Now, the taxpayers foot the bill. Good job, Barack – maybe now you can give some more taxpayer funding to loser “green” energy companies.
The American taxpayers stand to lose billions as General Motors today announced a plan to buy back 40 percent of the company owned by the federal government.
“The Detroit automaker said it will purchase 200 million shares of GM stock held by Treasury for $5.5 billion — or $27.50 per share — nearly $2 above the stock’s closing price on Tuesday,” the Detroit News reports.
However, the break even price — the price that GM would need to pay for each share in order to pay back the money the government put in to the company —was $53 a share. That number has now risen dramatically.
“As a result of GM’s buy back, the government has recovered about $28.6 billion of its $49.5 billion GM bailout, which means it will most likely lose billions when selling its remaining shares,” MLive.com reports. “The government would need to sell its remaining shares at a price of $69.72 to break even. That’s up more than $15 from earlier this year, when the U.S. Treasury would have to sell its 500 million remaining shares at about $53 per share.”
via Taxpayers to Lose Billions as GM Buys Stake Back from Government | The Weekly Standard.
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