Examples of Gov't Spending & Taxes by Michelle Delabar https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac Find an example of questionable gov't spending or taxes. Type a brief description of your own and provide a link to where you got your information. en-us 2020-11-17 12:48:46 UTC 2020-11-17 18:55:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Army Chief of Staff Gen. says the nation has more than enough tanks. Around 2,000 were sitting unused in the California desert. Tank production serves local industries.$1.5 billion dollars worth of taxes has been used on tanks since 1994, and $593 million were allocated in 2018. https://blog.cheapism.com/biggest-wastes-of-tax-dollars/#close 3462116 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933149486 2020-11-17 18:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933149486 Example 367571 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933153069 ¨More than $2 billion has been spent to convert an abandoned mental hospital (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, an historic landmark) into a Department of Homeland Security headquarters (GSA and DHS).¨]]> 2020-11-17 18:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933153069 3079318 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933153866 The Conservation Reserve program pays farmers $2 billion annually not to farm their land.[49] https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/50-examples-government-waste ]]> 2020-11-17 18:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933153866 363418 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933154784 a troubling increase in the number of cases of government officials spending public money to campaign for or against ballot measures without disclosing that spending to voters.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/05/opinion-state-watchdog-concerned-about-public-spending-on-campaigns/]]> 2020-11-17 18:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933154784 $1 Billion Trolley Ride 562582 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933155939 The Department of Transportation announced a $1.04 billion dollar grant to expand the San Diego trolly service by only 10.9 miles. ]]> 2020-11-17 18:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933155939 568482 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933156899 lowering the gas prices in the south https://www.businessinsider.com/cheap-gas-costs-95-cents-at-some-stations-oil-price-2020-3]]> 2020-11-17 18:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933156899 The Environmental Protection Agency was criticised in 2015 for allocating $36,700 of taxpayers' money to an organisation tasked with creating a Minecraft version of the Berkshire region of Massachusetts, ostensibly to educate young people about environmental issues. 333752 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933157294 https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/71499/controversial-ways-the-us-government-spends-taxpayers-money

]]> 2020-11-17 18:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933157294 Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job 387945 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933159053 http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47976]]> 2020-11-17 18:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933159053 2840619 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933160790 The US National Institutes of Health spent $592,527 to study why Chimpanzees throw their feces.

https://erietigertimes.com/1685/uncategorized/18-ridiculous-things-the-federal-government-has-funded/]]> 2020-11-17 18:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933160790 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTERS 3072318 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933163289 After 17 years in development, the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is seven years behind schedule and $173 billion over budget, making it the most expensive weapon system in history with an estimated lifetime maintenance cost of $1 trillion.
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]]> 2020-11-17 18:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933163289 10. $283,500 on Department of Defense bird-watching. Government spent over 100k on watching a endangered bird. 3098516 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933163375 2020-11-17 18:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933163375 3170010 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933168303 Trumps wall has so far costed 11 billion or 20 million a mile. to keep drugs and illegals out. people have a positive and a negative view on this government spending.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797319968/-11-billion-and-counting-trumps-border-wall-would-be-the-world-s-most-costly]]> 2020-11-17 18:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933168303 Special coffee mugs 3037517 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933173482 The government spent $325,000 on special re-heating mugs for the air force. https://blog.cheapism.com/biggest-wastes-of-tax-dollars/#slide=5]]> 2020-11-17 18:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933173482 583642 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933175084 The government spent at least $518,000 in federal grants to study how 🤬 affects the sexual behavior of Japanese quails.]]> 2020-11-17 18:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933175084 Almost 54% of government discretionary spending is on the military. With a total of 598.5 billion dollars spent in 2015. 4590510 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933176305 https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/]]> 2020-11-17 18:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933176305 Political wrangling twists the most noble-sounding government programs beyond recognition. 2765517 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933191617 Social Security Administration’s $25 billion a year Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Almost 250,000 children qualify for SSI checks because they can’t participate in “age appropriate activities.” Though thousands of prisoners get SSI checks relating to their alleged disabilities—costing taxpayers about $20 million a year.]]> 2020-11-17 18:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933191617 MAKING HAMSTERS FIGHTSince 1996, Northeastern University researcher Richard Melloni has received more than $3 million in taxpayer funds from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to make hamsters fight each other while on anabolic steroids and other aggression-fueling drugs. After more than two decades, Melloni’s experiments finally stopped receiving federal funds in 2017. 287318 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933236457 https://blog.cheapism.com/biggest-wastes-of-tax-dollars/#slide=9]]> 2020-11-17 18:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933236457 unnecessary printing. kills a lot of trees and waste a lot of money in making paper(930,000,000). 40995 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933236852 https://moneyminiblog.com/lists/stupidest-things-u-s-government-spends-money-on/]]> 2020-11-17 18:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933236852 391472 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933241005 Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines -- plus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars. https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/50-examples-government-waste]]> 2020-11-17 18:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933241005 In 2015 students from the University of Washington received $1.3 million to study how foam koozies keep beer cold in hot weather. 408998 https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933242032 2020-11-17 18:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mdelabar/uclqdmadrxhpw0ac/wish/933242032