http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0908/Sanders_comes_out_against_Bush_bailout_plan.html

"[Senator Bernie] Sanders is proposing a five-year surtax of 10 percent on single Americans making more than $500,000 a year, or couples making $1 million annually, to help pay for the bailout. Sanders said such a tax would yield $300 billion.

Sanders also wants much tighter regulation of Wall Street, as well as the dismantling of huge corporations that are "too big to fail."

“If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,” Sanders said."

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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D93AMMB00.htm

""This could go a long way toward solving these problems," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com, who has written a book on the mortgage meltdown.

And the final cost to the government?

No one knows for sure, but Zandi said if the experience with cleaning up all the assets left over from the savings and loan mess is any guide, it should be less than the $700 billion that the administration is seeking.

In the S&L crisis, the government was able to recoup about two-thirds of its initial costs when it sold the assets it had obtained from the failed S&Ls."