Kill TARP, spare the taxpayer

NEW YORK - For some, the slow, steady demise of TARP cannot happen soon enough. Last week, 10 of the nation's largest financial firms won their release from the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program, setting the stage for them to pay back the billions of dollars the government loaned them last fall.

But this news was book-ended by legislation that aims to end the controversial program sooner rather than later...

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