11.   Meantime, the taxpayers are footing the costs involved in the use of county court to pursue this exercise in wretched litigious excess.

12.   Now, if this bill passes, the taxpayers will foot the bill to force people to pay their debts.

13.   Once again, taxpayers are footing the bill, the environmentalists said.

14.   Over the next few decades, New Jersey taxpayers will foot the bill to retire the bonds.

15.   Retirees were short-changed and taxpayers footed much of the bill.

16.   Taxpayers still foot most of the bill for the settlement because the city is liable as the employer.

17.   The administration has this goofy idea that it can legislate love for poor folks if the taxpayers just foot the bill.

18.   Taxpayers foot the bill for tuition and parents pay only for books.

19.   The borrower defaulted and the US taxpayer footed the bill.

20.   The government argues that under existing contracts taxpayers will foot all of the bill if the Games make a loss but get nothing if there is a profit.