1.   As history has proven, enforcing Prohibition cost taxpayers billions before it failed miserably and the law was repealed.

2.   Some military experts assert that the Pentagon should explain what is behind the crash of a jet that cost taxpayers billions of dollars to develop.

3.   These and other benefits end up costing the taxpayer billions of dollars.

4.   Rural kibbutzim are often cut off from their surroundings and have been targets of resentment because of government bailouts that have cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

5.   The Clinton administration had said the decision could cost taxpayers billions of dollars.