The Internal Revenue Service, in 2011, awarded tax credits, intended for homeowners, to non-homeowners, including a child of three.
In 2011, the federal child health and development agency spent millions on television and electricity for seven remote villages in Vietnam.
Chicago tried to build a superstation to connect its two airports to its railway nexus. After millions of dollars, the station never opened.
The United States, as far back as FY 2010, spent millions in foreign aid to America's creditors, without negotiation of debt relief.
In 2011 the government granted over a hundred thousand dollars to a video games museum to study these games for conservation themes.
Oklahoma got a new visitor’s center, courtesy of the federal government, while other Oklahoma infrastructure went begging.
The International House of Pancakes wangled a federal subsidy worth $1.1 million today to open a restaurant in Washington's Colonial Heights.
Mango exports from Pakistan to America got millions of dollars' worth of attention from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The two major political parties spent millions of taxpayers’ dollars on their respective national conventions in nine election cycles.
For more than a century after the Spanish-American War ended, telephone users paid a tax to finance it in lieu of tariffs.