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Cool cooking grease - especially grease from your turkey fryer - contain it and throw it in the trash; grease-related sewer backups generate costs for Austin taxpayers.

AP - Taxpayers have shelled out at least $200 million since 2004 for medications that have never been reviewed by the government for safety and effectiveness but are still cove

AP - Taxpayers have shelled out at least $200 million since 2004 for medications that have never been reviewed by the government for safety and effectiveness but are still covered under Medicaid, an Associated Press analysis of federal data has found.

Millions of private patients are taking such drugs, as well.

A program supposed to help Texas children from low-income families prepare for school has cost taxpayers more than three times the typical pre-kindergarten curriculum, according to a newspaper report.

Airfare for your kids to fly around to events on the taxpayers’ dime: $21,012

Designer clothes for your botched Vice Presidential roll out: $150,000

Under a mortgage rescue plan announced at the debate Tuesday night by Senator John McCain, much of the burden of paying to keep troubled borrowers in their homes will shift to taxpayers.

Note what Cramer says when Pat Buchanan asks why the free market isn’t buying up these mortgages. The fact is there are some first-tier institutions doing it, but none of the second tier.

This is why the government needs to step in.

Also note how the executive pay provision may actually hurt the bailout because companies won’t enter the plan and take a massive pay cut…as I’ve been warning.

Bush administration officials want Congress to approve a $700 billion aid package for Wall Street, and they want it to happen soon.

Democrats say they're happy to help shore up the financial markets, but they want a bill that includes relief for homeowners and taxpayers as well.

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