Tax Money

Iraq: I Did My Part

Alan Grayson | Posted 11.01.2011

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Yesterday, the Commission on Wartime Contracting released its final report. $360 million of our tax dollars went straight to the Taliban. Wow. Who could have imagined that? Well... me.

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Money Spent On Perks, Fringe Benefits Rose At Bailed Out Banks Last Year

Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even as the nation's biggest financial firms were struggling and the federal government was spending hundreds of billions of dollars to save many of t...

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Tax Revenues Post Biggest Drop Since Depression

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health ...

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Bill Clinton's Post-Presidential Perks Cost Taxpayers Almost As Much As Carter, Bush 41 Combined

Politico | By KENNETH P. VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Clintons have made a $100-million fortune since leaving the White House, but a Politico analysis found that hasn't kept Bill Clinton from taking f...

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