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Real Student Default Rates Much Higher Than Previously Known

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Of the billions that taxpayers spent to help students attend for-profit colleges and universities in 2007, half will never be repaid, according to Department of Education projections (PDF) released Tuesday.

And the department expects that over 40 percent of the loans granted from 2003 to 2006 to [...]

Posted: December 16, 2009, 11:14am EST
by Ben Cunningham

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Nashville PR firm still not converting federal recovery funds into public benefit

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Two months ago, I broadcast information from Recovery.gov that Nashville's McNeely, Pigott, & Fox had received stimulus funds for a green initiative for which they had created zero jobs. Via Post Politics, Stimulus Watch continues to note the lack of progress with taxpayers money by McNeely, [...]

Posted: December 13, 2009, 10:39pm EST
by S-townMike

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More ID theft for Davidson County Taxpayers

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Well, at least metaphorically. The name of every Davidson County taxpayer will be forged on the loan documents for the new Convention Center.
Your name, dear taxpayer, will be on that $600 million loan as surely as if you signed it yourself.
Hey, you are already paying the highest [...]

Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:59am EST
by Ben Cunningham

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If you want to be treated like a "Patient First", you better call your Senator today!

—Truman's Take

Dear Patients First supporter,

Yesterday, the Senate began debate on the 2,074 page Reid health care bill. It will cost taxpayers a staggering $848 billion while leaving 24 million Americans uninsured and increase premiums by 10-13%, according to the new CBO estimate.

The Reid bill fails to control [...]

Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:27am EST

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New local blog by those concerned about the proposed convention center

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Nashville's Priorities launches a new blogging effort to promote greater public consideration of the impact of a new convention center on Metro Nashville's budget, programs, and services to taxpayers. Be an informed citizen and please avail yourself of their views on construction of the massive Music City Center. Don't' [...]

Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:06pm EST
by S-townMike

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Chutzpah, It’s What’s For Dinner

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Amid unimaginable and unprecedented deficit spending in The Worst Economy Since The Great Depression (tm), one Barack Hussein Obama lets the US taxpayers feed and pamper several hundred multimillionaire Hollyweird bigshots while his loyalist minions contemplate yet another tax on the middle class to pay for the war we were [...]

Fetched: November 26, 2009, 4:50pm EST

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Big Pharma Ads Drive up drug Costs for Taxpayers

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A joint Harvard – University of British Columbia (UBC) study examined U.S. sales patterns of clopidogrel, a top-selling drug with the trade name Plavix, which is used to prevent blood clots after heart attack or stroke. Plavix was selected to study the impact of advertising on sales, because [...]

Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:58am EST
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When Govt teaches about Government, the real lesson

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is for the taxpayers.
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WASHINGTON — A non-profit group that gets millions of dollars a year from Congress to help teach students about government misspent or failed to justify more than $5.9 million last year, Education Department investigators say in a report released Monday.The California-based Center for Civic [...]

Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:16am EST
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William Jefferson's legal bills to be paid by taxpayers

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during his appeal.
LinkTheir fees will be covered by the court, though the rates will be similar to those provided public defenders and far less than the prominent white collar attorneys generally charge.

Ellis also said that a transcript of the eight-week trial, which the court reporter estimated [...]

Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:29am EST
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Morristown Bankruptcy Looms Large

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City officials have been trying hard to duck and cover from massive waste and abuse in taxing and spending and there seems to be no end in sight - taxpayers will likely be slammed again with ever higher taxes during a crushing recession and double-digit unemployment. Worse, elected officials [...]

Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:24pm EST
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Pontiac taxpayers paid $55 mil for the Silverdome

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35 yrs ago.
They just sold it for $583,000. [...]

Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:07pm EST
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14,700 Swiss Bank Accounts discoverd by DOJ

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WASHINGTON - Over 14,700 U.S. taxpayers have voluntarily come forward to report having secret Swiss bank accounts as part of an Internal Revenue Services program, according to the Justice Department on Tuesday. The result comes after the IRS, the Swiss government and Swiss bank UBS AG announced a [...]

Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:54pm EST
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Politicians mis-using Motel Tax? Say it ain't so!

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Hey, when it leaves the wallets of taxpayers do you really expect politicians to resist the temptation to spend it?
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ATLANTA - A state panel voted unanimously Monday morning to investigate three small cities because of repeated problems with how they handle hotel-motel taxes.

The panel also [...]

Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:43am EST
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Holy Mackeral: Taxpayers giving Nissan $1.92 million

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for each job created? This is not corporate welfare, it is highway robbery.
This kind of taxpayer extortion has got to stop. Our government has turned into a protection racket for large corporations.
Surely this is mis-reported?? Why would anyone representing taxpayers approve of such a deal?

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Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:02am EST
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