If you've got a $100 bill
to spare, grab it. Now
crumple it up and throw
it away. Or set fire to it.
Then do it nine to 14
more times, until we tell
you you've kicked in your share.
"My share for what?" you ask. Why,
your $1,000 to $1,500 share of the savings
and loan bailout. That's about what
the average U.S. taxpayer, by some estimates,
will have to come up with to
help save mismanaged savings and loans
that squandered billions during the
1980s. Of course, you don't have to kick
in your share all at once; it will take
more than a decade to pay for it all, perhaps
as many as 30