1.   Thirty years of taxpayer investment in the welfare state have created more poverty, more social ills, more misery and more crime.

2.   Whitmore said the program duplicated other government and private programs and was not producing nearly the return on taxpayer investment as other programs.

3.   Yet after two decades of doubling the taxpayer investment in education, the public system is failing too many children.

4.   But they say research and tax breaks are a good taxpayer investment because coal is abundant and comparatively cheap.