I have a new much cheaper bailout plan: let's take $100 billion, and give an equal share to every member of the House of Representatives who agrees to give half of it away tax-free. Those that have investment bankers on their backs can give it to them; those that want to help people who can't pay their mortgages can give it them. That should get all of them off our backs.
Alternatively, let's revert to the original Poulson plan with an additional clause that the personal taxes of all the economists that signed the letter opposing the bailout will be cut to zero. That should get us off their backs.
