NRCC Identifies $18,224,377,097 In Government Waste Spending #ThewasteList

By Susan Duclos

The NCRR has created a website which identifies wasteful government spending and how much is spent on each item. The total so far is $18,224,377,097. Readers can sign also sign up for updates on wasteful government spending.

List of identified waste as of Thursday, March 28, 2013, below:

 WASTE: Identity thieves steal billions from IRS  - $3,900,000,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded Star Wars party  - $365

 WASTE: New NASA visitor center built next door to old NASA visitor center  - $12,400,000

 WASTE: Science dollars wasted on Antarctica projects  - $20,500,000

 WASTE: Professional sports tax loopholes  - $91,000,000

 WASTE: Luxurious bus shelters  - $388,000

 WASTE: Circus classes  - $20,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded online lawyer training  - $500,000

 WASTE: Toy exhibit  - $150,000

 WASTE: National Science Foundation “Prom Week” video game  - $516,000

 WASTE: Book club funding goes to ghost tours, fishing lessons, and movie screenings  - $1,000,000

 WASTE: Abandoned homes in New Orleans receive federal funds  - $21,600,000

 WASTE: Cartoon school receives $225,000  - $225,000

 WASTE: Vineyard grape-growing subsidies  - $1,500,000

 WASTE: Video game festival  - $50,000

 WASTE: Study on Idaho firearm industry  - $24,877

 WASTE: Video game based on author Henry David Thoreau’s writings  - $40,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded house renovations lose money  - $18,410

 WASTE: Government-backed business loan losses  - $3,400,000

 WASTE: Abuse of college tax credits  - $3,200,000,000

 WASTE: USDA caviar promotion  - $300,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-subsidized cupcakes  - $2,000,000

 WASTE: Black liquor tax loophole  - $268,000,000

 WASTE: Study on heavy drinking in thirties linked to immaturity  - $548,731

 WASTE: Department of Energy award for App that already exists  - $100,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded study finds golfers are better when they envision a larger hole  - $350,000

 WASTE: Failed healthy food initiative  - $32,000,000

 WASTE: Television rerun study  - $666,905

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded comedy group tours India  - $100,000

 WASTE: Job contractors pay highest bidder  - $4,600,000

 WASTE: Government overpays for products and services  - $1,000,000,000

 WASTE: College anti-trash poster contest  - $67,926

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded tour boat  - $3,300,000

 WASTE: Alaskan sightseeing trains  - $38,800,000

 WASTE: Video game study on memory loss  - $1,200,000

 WASTE: Talking urinal cakes  - $10,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer dollars fail to reform struggling schools  - $7,300,000

 WASTE: Russian weapons institutes recruiting new scientists with U.S. taxpayer funds  - $15,000,000

 WASTE: Speed reading faces  - $30,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded phone app  - $1,000,000

 WASTE: Highway funds pay for sculpture garden  - $145,000

 WASTE: Powerful internet routers installed in tiny rural libraries and schools  - $24,000,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded smartphone research  - $1,300,000

 WASTE: Alabama Watermelon Queen Tour  - $25,000

 WASTE: Taxpayers fund graffiti mural to combat obesity  - $13,000

 WASTE: Unused airport in Oklahoma  - $450,000

 WASTE: Corporate welfare for world’s largest snack food maker  - $1,300,000

 WASTE: Duplicate magazine preservation  - $270,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded potato chips  - $49,990

 WASTE: Improper food stamp payments  - $4,500,000,000

 WASTE: Robot Squirrels  - $325,000

 WASTE: Philosophy booth and “academic” happiness course  - $24,995

 WASTE: Fruit and veggies YouTube video contest  - $106,000

 WASTE: Faulty FEMA calculations lead to unnecessary building replacement  - $75,400,000

 WASTE: Contracts for trophies and typewriters  - $24,000,000

 WASTE: Pentagon weapons funds buy beef jerky  - $700,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded yacht engines  - $489,000

 WASTE: Bizarre and wasteful “academic” summer studies  - $498,000

 WASTE: Missile Defense Agency’s research problems  - $1,000,000,000

 WASTE: California towns sell federal grants to neighbors  - $206,426

 WASTE: Arcade-style floor mats for gym class  - $90,750

 WASTE: Unconstitutional courthouse cameras  - $500,000

 WASTE: Failed Iraqi police training program  - $400,000,000

 WASTE: Book vending machine  - $35,000

 WASTE: Motorsports museum  - $300,000

 WASTE: Celebrity chefs and healthy food vending machines  - $612,808

 WASTE: Medicaid audit program costs more than it saves  - $30,000,000

 WASTE: Another bridge to nowhere  - $520,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer dollars go to a brewery  - $750,970

 WASTE: Government-subsidized cell phones  - $1,500,000,000

 WASTE: 100 Year Starship Initiative  - $300,000

 WASTE: Navy picks two companies to build new ships increasing costs by $148 million  - $148,000,000

 WASTE: Overseas vacations for athletes  - $5,500,000

 WASTE: Climate change musical  - $697,177

 WASTE: Unused and outdated NASA database  - $771,000

 WASTE: Lego city  - $3,700

 WASTE: Phantom and unused grant account fees  - $2,000,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded pet shampoo and toothpaste  - $505,000

 WASTE: Old-fashioned trolley car  - $35,600,000

 WASTE: Sidewalks to nowhere  - $1,100,000

 WASTE: Student field trip to watch the movie Red Tails  - $57,000

 WASTE: Unnecessary courthouse design  - $322,000,000

 WASTE: Mars Menu  - $947,000

 WASTE: Electric vehicle tax credit  - $74,000,000

 WASTE: Medicaid payments to tax evaders  - $330,000,000

 WASTE: Dancing robots as iPhone disc jockeys  - $547,430

 WASTE: Moroccan pottery classes  - $27,000,000

 WASTE: Smokey Bear balloons  - $49,447

 WASTE: Video game controller design  - $1,500,000

 WASTE: Postal Service overprints commemorative stamps  - $2,000,000

 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded booze  - $99,000

 WASTE: Old-fashioned x-rays for prisoners  - $1,300,000

 WASTE: Free (taxpayer-funded) bus rides for Super Bowl attendees  - $142,419

 WASTE: NASA video games and entertainment programs  - $1,600,000

 WASTE: Penny production  - $70,000,000

 WASTE: Fruit fly sexual attractiveness study  - $939,771

 WASTE: Rubber tire subsidy to billion-dollar tire company  - $6,900,000

 WASTE: Paying for veterans’ health care twice  - $1,000,000,000