In Praise of the Taxpayer.

It doesn't bother the taxpayer necessarily.

The American taxpayer bears the risk.

That's just a waste of taxpayer money.

And we are high taxpayer. Where do I find justice?

Each taxpayer has the right to know where his money goes.

So the U.S. taxpayer paid for it the World Bank, Exxon paid for it.

Yet another useless joyride at the cost of mere millions to the US taxpayer.

So buried in signage are these structures, that it often takes a moment to distinguish the modern specially constructed taxpayer from its neighbor the small commercial building from an earlier century, whose upper floors have been sealed, and whose groundfloor space now functions as a taxpayer.

A single diagnosis of PTSD can cost up to 1 and a half million dollars in taxpayer funded benefits over a soldier's lifetime.

Millions of students are paying less for college today because we finally took on a system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders.

I predict, also, that the investment that will flow into this will be somewhere around half of what the U.S. taxpayer spends for NASA's manned spacecraft work.

In a study funded by over 25 million taxpayer dollars, digital mammography was found to be no better over all than traditional mammography, and in fact, it was worse in older women.

Masquerading as an international sporting event, but benefitting the military industrial complex, sucking billions of taxpayer dollars from host cities, displacing the homeless, criminalizing the poor, devastating the environment, and stealing indigenous lands.

It's important because you have no idea the number of excuses people come up with to hang onto their data and not give it to you, even though you've paid for it as a taxpayer.

And what that means is before we know it, the progress in human space flight, with no taxpayer dollars, will be at a level of about five times as much as the current NASA budgets for human space flight.

And it's worth adding that IBM became the global giant in computing in large measure thanks to the magnificence of the US taxpayer who substantially funded the core of the IT revolution and most of the rest of the high tech economy.

To this day, I find it remarkable that anybody, even at the most remote podunk field office of the FBI thought that a fitting use for taxpayer dollars was investigating people for criminal theft on the grounds that they had made the law public.

These scholarly journals and articles are essentially the entire wealth of human knowledge online, and many have been paid for with taxpayer money or with government grants, but to read them, you often have to pay again handing over steep fees to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

But Goldman's boys are well placed among the architects of power and they not only arranged for a huge bailout. but more importantly, they got the taxpayer to pay to save AlG from bankruptcy by up their collapsed loans and that incidentally saved Goldman Sachs from the same fate.