1. The Palin Administration funneled 220 million federal dollars to "other projects" when it pulled the plug on the "Bridge to Nowhere" project. David Kirkpatrick and Larry Rohter, "Account of Bridge's Death Slightly Exaggerated," The New York Times, 31 August 2008.
2. Oil and gas subsidies total $6 billion; coal subsidies total $9 billion. Public Citizen, The Best Energy Bill Corporations Could Buy, factsheet, downloaded 24 September 2008.
3. U.S. government bailout of Wall Street may cost taxpayers up to $700 billion.
4. Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimates the total cost of U.S. involvement in Iraq at $3 trillion. Joseph Stiglitz, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, W.W. Norton, New York, 2008.
5. Number of taxpayers based on 136.1 million tax returns filed in 2006, per the IRS. Citation: Internal Revenue Service, Another Record-Breaking Number of Taxpayers Choose to Electronically File in 2007 [press release], IR-2007-185, 7 November 2007.
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