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Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

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I said 'no.' I would vote 'no,' ... I am reminded of Rogers firefighters who were stuck in a hotel room a few weeks ago. Our taxpayer dollars are to take care of our taxpayers here in Benton County ... I work for Habitat for Humanity, so I do not have a cold heart. I am just trying to be conscientious.

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.

I represent the American taxpayer also and I just share that with you to say that it's terribly important, terribly important that the good people of Louisiana, have a plan that is transparent, that is detailed, that is separated from the political winds, that will be administered for oversight, anybody looking at it can question, what's happening and that integrity just gushes from that plan, terribly important. It's a lot of money that the taxpayers are bringing forth.

I reminded the board that that's what you do. You save taxpayer money by letting businesses bid on this.

If we stay in our current building, we have to upgrade the building at no small cost to the taxpayers and the district.

If the total cost of the hurricane recovery effort approaches $200 billion, as some have suggested, that would amount to every family in the country paying about $2,500. The last thing we need to do would be to saddle taxpayers with a tax increase,

If the standard mileage rate was first used when the vehicle was placed into service --used for business -- then the taxpayer may convert to the actual expense deduction to offset higher fuel cost for the current year. From September 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005 the IRS increased the standard to 48.5 cents per mile. Despite the increase in the standard mileage rate, one should carefully weigh which expense -- actual or standard --they should use for their 2005 return.

If the flu shots can be put to good use to help someone who needs them, that's great, but it does not change Comptroller Hynes' position that the state of Illinois and the taxpayers of Illinois are not responsible for the payment of flu shots that we never received.