The topic for a morning Salt Lake City talk show may have been the impact of Bank Transfer Day, but the head of the Utah Bankers Association quickly converted the pre-Thanksgiving broadcast to an assault on the credit union tax exemption.

The "Good Morning Utah" segment on Salt Lake City's ABC affiliate, KTVX, featured Scott Simpson, president/CEO of the Utah Credit Union Association, and his counterpart, Howard Headlee, head of the UBA.

Simpson confided he was surprised but well-prepared for the banker attack with verbal counterpunches of his own hitting on what he said is a banking campaign to plunder consumers with gouging high fees contributing to the economic malaise.

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