banks paid back to the government from the $700 billion tarp billout fund. that would go to small and community banks in the form of loan financing. the banks would owe the government less money in certain taxes if they increased their lending to small businesses. the obama administration hopes it would make it easier for mail businesses to get loans. apparently there is some objection to this. the strong objection from senator judd greggg. he has a strong objection to this he says that s not what tarp money is meant to do. it was written so any money recouped by the government would be used to pay down the deficit. he says it s not supposed to