Total Value of Government Waste: $18,224,377,097
WASTE: Circus classes – $20,000 WASTE: Television rerun study – $666,905 WASTE: Old-fashioned x-rays for prisoners – $1,300,000 WASTE: Missile Defense Agency’s research problems – $1,000,000,000 WASTE: Job contractors pay highest bidder – $4,600,000 WASTE: Overseas vacations for athletes – $5,500,000 WASTE: Video game controller design – $1,500,000 WASTE: Abuse of college tax credits – $3,200,000,000 WASTE: Medicaid audit program costs more than it saves – $30,000,000 WASTE: Unconstitutional courthouse cameras – $500,000 WASTE: Fruit fly sexual attractiveness study – $939,771 WASTE: Government-backed business loan losses – $3,400,000 WASTE: Electric vehicle tax credit – $74,000,000 WASTE: Taxpayer dollars go to a brewery – $750,970 WASTE: Dancing robots as iPhone disc jockeys – $547,430 WASTE: Failed healthy food initiative – $32,000,000 WASTE: Science dollars wasted on Antarctica projects – $20,500,000 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded potato chips – $49,990 WASTE: Duplicate magazine preservation – $270,000 WASTE: Video game festival – $50,000 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded phone app – $1,000,000 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded yacht engines – $489,000 WASTE: Book vending machine – $35,000 WASTE: Alabama Watermelon Queen Tour – $25,000 WASTE: Video game study on memory loss – $1,200,000 WASTE: Taxpayer-funded booze – $99,000 WASTE: 100 Year Starship Initiative – $300,000 WASTE: Lego city – $3,700See more: http://www.nrcc.org/thewastelist/