Congress passed the troubled asset relief program (tarp) in 2008 to aid banks that had made bad loans. this program was highly controversial. match each idea with either a reason to support tarp or a reason against the program. drag each item on the left to its matching item on the right. note that every item may not have a match, while some items may have more than one match. tarp used funds from taxpayers to bail out banks that had contributed to the recession (against/support ). tarp to prevent many bankruptcies and to stabilize financial markets (against/support ). tarp reduced bank failures, which prevented massive layoffs in the financial industry (against/support ). tarp distorted the operations of private markets, which would have allowed poorly managed banks to fail (against/support ).