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Webb and Boxer want to put high taxes on bonuses paid by companies that received TARP funds? Here’s what I don’t get … AIG holds a bunch of apparently ill conceived insurance policies indemnifying various financial institutions. AIG gets bailed out. Now AIG can pay off the insurance contracts. Don’t the financial institutions who get paid by AIG represent TARP recipients even if they didn’t directly take TARP money?