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For more than a century after the Spanish-American War ended, telephone users paid a tax to finance it in lieu of tariffs.
The city of Lynn, Massachusetts cleverly used federal grants on various beautification projects, and no one counted the cost.
The city of Bell, California lost $5.5 million dollars to corruption in 2010 and for about three years thereafter.
Why did the Department of Housing and Urban Development pay $60,000 to build a rear-entrance garden for a pizza parlor?
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation spent over half a billion dollars on highway beautification instead of repairs.
In a story that adds new meaning to the question, "What color is your parachute?" Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) earmarked $60,500 of taxpayers' money to fund...
The Department of Education had a reputation as a waste of money fifteen years ago, when Tom Coburn exposed two particularly bad programs.
In 2010, a Washington State town spent federal funds to build a walking bridge across a river that already had a crossing.
Many times, disaster funds have gone to one-shot parties for the victims, instead of rebuilding and repair help they could have used.
In 2010, the government paid a leftist professor 3/16 of a million dollars to create a video game in protest of capitalism.
