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The Sawyer Bridge in New Hampshire got hundreds of thousands in Obama stimulum money in 2009, yet no one can cross it.
The film Joker Folie a Deux cost California $20 million in uncollected taxes to get made, an example of bad film tax credit policy.
State governments across the USA have $811 billion in debt that exceeds their assets, mainly from unfunded pension liabilities.
New York State insists that small towns and some counties share government services, like courts - and everything ends up costing more.
The Army Corps of Engineers built a dam in Oklahoma for $50 million, only to have the upstream river dry out, so the lake never formed.
Members of Congress have demanded a record $31 million in earmarks, more than three-quarters of them from Republicans.
Spending is out of control at a Florida state college where Governor Ron DeSantis appointed most of its trustees.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson returned trifling sums to campaign contributors who then got multimillion-dollar city business.
A detective convicted of multiple fraud counts will still keep his pension, though he used his position as part of his frauds.
The Census Bureau spent $2.5 mllion in 2010 to advertise on the Super Bowl, and the ad laid one of the event's biggest bombs.
