On what grounds can HIV prevention and education programs in Africa, funded by taxpayers and sponsored by international agencies, foreign aid agencies, and national governments, continue to deprive people of highly relevant, life-saving information?
A bigger story in the political section has been criticism of the £3m handed over by the Malaysian taxpayer to sponsor Cardiff and publicise the Visit Malaysia 2014 tourism campaign.
Since taxpayers already sponsor most academic research, the thinking goes, providing free access to its fruits does not seem unreasonable.
Although, actually, Representative Betty McCollum of Minnesota proposed banning the use of taxpayer money to sponsor Nascar race teams in 2011, and she was voted down, 281 to 148.
The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (N.J).
Blackburn sponsored the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act in an attempt to codify the Hyde Amendment into federal law.
This "qui tam" suit alleges that Armstrong and his associates effectively defrauded US taxpayers by dope-cheating while sponsored by the US Postal Service (to the tune of at least $30m over five years, and possibly as much as $50m).
The financing — potentially hundreds of millions of dollars — would come from the sale of broadcast spectrum and would not require any additional taxpayer money, sponsors say.
Taxpayers are to sponsor newly-promoted Jersey Rugby Club.
The new tax data also raised questions about the effectiveness of the sharp reduction in capital gains taxes, a major element of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, which was sponsored by the House Republican leadership.
Under the new law, the Pentagon will be forbidden from using taxpayer funds on what has been called "sponsored patriotism".
