"One checks, the other double-checks - that's clearly not happened in this case, " he said.

BBC: London

Sudeith pays one man double his costs, sending checks to his stateside wife.

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That's roughly double the 3.5% of payroll checks that went to 1099 workers in December 2007.

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It's cut down on recipients who were "double-dipping, " or collecting welfare checks from multiple locations.

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Then there's double-dipping, or legislators collecting two checks from government (which other government employees are barred from doing).

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Government tax revenue is often more than double the budget, and, like Kuwait, Macau distributes occasional checks to its residents under a program named the Wealth Partaking Scheme. (Last year: eight hundred and seventy-five dollars per person.) Unemployment is below three per cent.

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Subtract the patronage checks and you still have a pretax margin of 4.5%, almost double that of publicly traded Sports Authority.

FORBES: Backpackers meet bottom line

Subtract the patronage checks and you still have a pretax margin of 4.5%, almost double that of Sports Authority, a publicly traded U.S. sporting goods chain.

FORBES: Backpackers meet the bottom line