While taxpayers and lawmakers fret about the $700 billion bank bailout, the Treasury and Commerce departments are among a list of agencies that waste as much as $100 billion a year on contracts, often managed in secret......... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/mm_0309_story8.html
Whenever you have helpless people writing big checks that they can't argue with (i.e. taxpayers) you are creating a system with the world's biggest abuses - which is what the tax system is.