What does I-164 have in store for payday loan industry?
The Billings Gazette published a letter containing controversial information on payday lending and the ballot Initiative-164 to come. The I-164 once approved will destroy payday loan industry, with people losing their jobs and opportunities to use payday loans as inevitable consequences.
According to Montana law, payday loan lenders cannot roll over the loans. This restriction results in the loans having fixed interest rates. In other words payday loan lenders already have no opportunity to charge so-called giant interest rates.
When it comes to short term loans associated with high level of risks, we cannot apply the rules that perfectly go for long term loans such as home mortgage. If the I-164 was approved, there would be a cap of 36% APR for cheap payday loans. Each hundred dollars would bring a lender $1.38, which is extremely little to handle expenses.
Overall, the I-164 is created to ruin cash until payday industry, take away jobs and, what is more, make Montana residents use more expensive alternatives: late fees, bank overdraft and offshore Internet lenders. Posted on Thu, 2010-09-30 11:49
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