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Of course, the most notable programs that cost the taxpayers money were the auto bailouts.

That remains to be seen and will depend on exactly what the share price is when the government sells and how they sell it (I.E. do they dump it all at once thus depressing the price or do they follow the more sound track which France used with privatizing Renault, selling off a bit then waiting for prices to recover before selling off another bit).