The Fed should take care to prevent any breakdown of liquidity while keeping inflation under control and avoiding an unjustified taxpayer financed bailout of risky bank loans.

The public already is being misused in an effort to mop up junk securities and support feeble banks, with taxpayer funded institutions such as the ECB and the bailout programs having by now provided 1.2 trillion ( 1.6 trillion) in international credit.

Bailout Blues

Busted Bailout

The Bailout Bias

China s American Bailout?

When news broke that the government of Uganda intends to use 1 trillion shillings (US 300 million) of taxpayer money to bail out defaulting businesses, Ugandans on Twitter called the move a 'scam and suggested the bailout money go towards Uganda's neglected public schools instead.

In his day, he was the highest taxpayer in Britain.

The next story is called In Praise of the Taxpayer.

Why the Greek Bailout Failed

Third, bailout fatigue is apparent.

The ECB s Secret Bailout Strategy

Consider the Irish bailout sorcery.

Does it need a BailOut?

Even talk of a government bailout reduces the debt holders incentive to act, making the bailout more necessary.

I cannot plead for a government bailout.

The bailout exposed deep hypocrisy all around.

Second, the eurozone s bailout bill continues to rise.

The Swiss government could afford the bailout, just.

Europe has similarly expanded its regional bailout facility.

Is that outcome morally superior to a bailout?

Eurozone taxpayers provided 10 billion in bailout funds.

Taxpayer bailouts, on the other hand, are seldom smooth and inevitably compromise central bank independence.

Each year in Norway, the government publishes the income and wealth of almost every taxpayer.

Each new wind power job costs the Danish taxpayer at least 119,000 ( 81,000) per year.

The bailout packages are, in this light, impressive achievements.

Not one more euro of German taxpayer money, she vowed, would be contributed for this purpose.

Businesses see opportunities for taxpayer funded subsidies, and to pass on inevitable cost growth to consumers.

The Danish wind industry is nearly completely dependent on taxpayer subsidies to support a modest workforce.

Big banks get a big taxpayer subsidy in the form of downside protection for their creditors.

Absent a foreign bailout, no other solution was on offer.

First came the Greek crisis, followed by the Greek bailout.

The reality of the 1976 bailout is even more complicated.

Spend in haste, repent at leisure America s latest bailout plan

Here is where the latest Irish bailout is particularly disconcerting.

The bailout of banks led to a wave of mergers.

Reacting to the US bailout plan, a Filipino academic writes

And a banking system that never received a taxpayer subsidy could still support excessive private sector leverage.

But, if taxpayer money is at risk anyway, as it is today, why not use it creatively?

And, if the bets don t pay off, the cost to the American taxpayer will be even larger.

Nations everywhere are starting to implement aggressive stimulus and bailout packages.

A recent example is the Greek bailout agreement of May 2010.

It is now very clear that the taxpayer will always be there to guarantee that bondholders get paid.

Another conservative accusation is that a bailout would infringe free trade rules.

Accusations that Switzerland is a tax haven usually come from countries that have a low level of taxpayer honesty.