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		euroclydon on Feb 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Recovery.gov has gone live Why do Tax Cuts contain $61B for Protecting the Vulnerable when there is already a Protecting the Vulnerable category with $81B? Also, if Obama were really interested in transparency, he would direct the Treasury and Federal Reserve to comply with the FOIA requests made by the media regarding the TARP and the liquidity injections.

yummyfajitas on Feb 18, 2009 [–]

Because that lets politicians talk about $BIGNUM in "tax relief" and also $BIGNUM2 in "protecting the vulnerable"?

Another fun fact, obscured by the headlines, is that "tax relief" includes wealth transfers from taxpayers to non-taxpayers (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/refundablecredit.asp).

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