As Congress and President Obama try to devise a fiscal stimulus package, and as the proposed spending for this package has risen from $300 billion to $825 billion, the taxpayers who fund the government's operations are again under assault by the usual crowdof wealthy, influential constituents seeking a piece of what many expect will be massive volumes of new federal spending.

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