Well, at least the NFL is giving the money back for charging taxpayers to have military servicemen and women . Photo by U.S. Army Public Affairs, Midwest
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Even more of your unspent-but-hard-earned money is being wasted, yay! Photo by BrookingsInst
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That’s a lot of dough: President Barack Obama’s two-day trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last month cost taxpayers over $3.1 million in hotel and motorcade costs alone, according to contracts released by the State Department. In what some described as a “futile” trip, the president met with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and […]
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From the Washington Examiner: Donald Trump took aim at his conservative critics while defending his trade policies in West Virginia Thursday. “I’m a conservative, but the conservatives hate me for suggesting I would dare tax somebody,” Trump said after vowing that companies moving jobs overseas would face stiff tariffs when they try to ship their […]
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Um, okay then: The Food and Drug Administration is spending $36 million on an anti-chewing tobacco advertising campaign targeted at white male teenagers in the midwest. The federal agency announced Tuesday it is expanding its “Real Cost” anti-tobacco campaign to “educate rural, white male teenagers” and convince them to stop dipping. Photo by Ryan Ojibway
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Yet John Koskinen asked Congress for more money. Huh? Photo by BrookingsInst
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It’s a legitimate concern. Photo by BrookingsInst
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Should we abolish or dismantle the U.S. Postal Service, after suffering huge losses like this? Photo by JLaw45
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The Washington Examiner reported: President Obama’s proposed tax changes amount to a $2.1 trillion increase in federal taxes over the next 10 years, according to an official estimate released Thursday. The Joint Committee on Taxation, the congressional body tasked with providing nonpartisan estimates of tax legislation, released an analysis Thursday finding that Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget […]
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Wow: The Obama administration has been shipping historical artifacts to Iran since last year as part of a secret détente that also included a taxpayer-funded payment of nearly $2 billion, according to a letter written by the State Department and exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Obama administration officials engaged in secret talks with […]
Continue Reading5/20/2016 - NFL to Pay Back Federal Gov’t some $723,734 for Military Recognition Ceremonies at Games
5/12/2016 - IRS Collected a Record $1.91 Trillion in Taxes, but Still Runs a Deficit
5/10/2016 - Obama’s 2-Day Saudi Arabian Visit Cost Taxpayers Over $3 Million
5/7/2016 - Trump Claims Conservatives Don’t Like Him Because He’ll Tax People
4/20/2016 - $36 Million Spent by FDA to Combat Chewing Tobacco
4/15/2016 - IRS Commissioner Agrees that a Flat Tax would be Simpler, Saves Money
4/13/2016 - Congress is Concerned about Hackers Attacking the IRS
4/7/2016 - Postal Service has Lost $50 Billion since 2007
3/25/2016 - Obama has Proposed Tax Hikes of $2.1 Trillion
3/24/2016 - U.S. Paid Iran $2 Billion and Shipped Artifacts to Iran due to the Iran Deal
3/23/2016 - IRS Costs for Conferences Exceeded Estimates
3/22/2016 - Interior Dept Spent $50 Million on Crime Database that Doesn’t Work
3/13/2016 - D.C. Tax Office Accidentally Withdrew Up to $7 Million from Taxpayers
3/10/2016 - ObamaCare Co-Ops Haven’t Repaid $1.2 Billion in Federal Loans
1/19/2016 - Bernie Sanders has Proposed $19.6 Trillion in Tax Hikes
12/31/2015 - One of Obama’s Hawaii Trips cost Taxpayers $8 Million
12/22/2015 - IRS: $46 Million in Wrongly-Issued Tax Refunds Given Out
11/16/2015 - Federal Gov’t Wasted $43 Million on a $500,000 Gas Station in Afghanistan that’s Rarely Used
11/10/2015 - EPA Gave Child Sex and Drug Offenders Paid Leave
11/9/2015 - $1.23 Billion Sunk into Failing ObamaCare Co-Ops
11/5/2015 - Defense Dept Slammed for Paying for Patriotic Events at Sports Games
11/3/2015 - Since 2005, $11 Billion in Overpayments for Social Security
11/3/2015 - 10 of 23 ObamaCare Co-Ops have Failed, Costing at least $1.1 Billion
10/3/2015 - IRS Improperly Withheld Info from Taxpayers 12.3% of the Time
9/24/2015 - EPA Official Spent $69,000 of Taxpayer Dollars to Fly Home on Weekends
9/21/2015 - INFOGRAPHIC: 3 Ways the Government Wastes Your Taxpayer Dollars
9/13/2015 - Dept of Agriculture Barely Uses Over 1,100 Cars, Spending $6.2 Million on them
9/9/2015 - Audit finds that DHS has No Idea what a Warehouse is
9/7/2015 - INFOGRAPHIC: American Taxpayers Subsidize NFL Stadiums
9/4/2015 - $572 Million in Extra ObamaCare Tax Credits Paid Out to Undeserving Recipients
8/27/2015 - CBO says Deficit, Public Debt will Double the Next 10 Years
8/21/2015 - Michelle Obama Thanks Taxpayers? $240,000 Airfare Bill for Italy, Britain Trip
8/18/2015 - Computer Breach at the IRS Compromised Over 300,000 Accounts
8/4/2015 - Bobby Jindal Cuts Off Funding for Planned Parenthood
7/31/2015 - Obama’s Africa Trip Airfare Cost $6 Million
7/24/2015 - Medicare Expenses have Tripled since 2000
7/23/2015 - GOP Moves to Defund Planned Parenthood after Video Scandal Emerges
7/17/2015 - Planned Parenthood Chief Offers Apology for Bad “Tone” during Leaked Video
7/16/2015 - Michelle Obama’s Air Travel in China Cost $360,000
7/16/2015 - 300,000 Americans Overpaid ObamaCare Fine, but IRS May Not Refund that $38 Million
7/7/2015 - Bill Clinton’s Limo Ride in Paris Cost Taxpayers $8,000
6/25/2015 - Thanks, Obama: His Earth Day Flights Cost Taxpayers over $800,000
6/7/2015 - Connecticut Tax Increases Are Bad, says MSNBC’s Morning Joe
6/1/2015 - Gov’t Waste: DOJ Spends $585,000 on Studying Far-Right Social Media Use
5/27/2015 - IRS Break-In: Thieves steal Tax Information of 100,000 Americans
5/17/2015 - Morocco Mining Firm, with Ties to Clinton Foundation, Funded by U.S. Tax Dollars
5/1/2015 - Clinton Cronyism: Foundation Took In $7 Million in Taxpayer Dollars
4/23/2015 - Obama’s IRS didn’t help Taxpayers but Gave Bonuses to Employees
2/27/2015 - Scott Walker: I’m for the “Hard-Working Taxpayers” in America
2/18/2015 - U.S. pulls plus on “Clean Coal” Energy
2/13/2015 - Solar Energy Subsidies cost Taxpayers $39 Billion a Year
2/12/2015 - Taxpayers paid for a Romance Novel Exhibit to the tune of $914,000
2/4/2015 - Obama’s Budget wants to Make Solyndra Tax Credit Permanent
2/3/2015 - Audit finds the U.S. Postal Service has Awful, Rude Employees
2/2/2015 - Hillary Clinton spent $200,000 of Taxpayer Dollars on Private Jets while at the State Department
12/26/2014 - 12 Ways how the U.S. Government Wasted Your Money
