In 2012, a hamburger cost Amtrak $16.15, with riders paying $9.50. This means that we, the taxpayers, are forced to pick up the tab for the remaining $6.65 through subsidies provided to Amtrak.

The auditorium is like an echo chamber and now we're asking the taxpayers to pick up the cost of these (mistakes) which should have been done correctly in the first place.

In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

Roger Kahn is someone with a gazillion dollars who thinks that he can use his vast fortune to buy television spots, particularly network television, and boost up his positives, make him appear to be a gentleman farmer, and cover up his warts.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

I have always been someone who wants to get it right. That started when I ran for school board. It's an avocation that's become a full-time job.