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On the recordOctober 27, 2009
if we are going to restore some sense of fairness that the American taxpayer needs, do you think that we have to address such transfers where the goal of the taxpayer bailout was to revive the financial system, but not to reward any individual firm?
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Welch questions the fairness of bailout transfers to firms.

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