Monday, September 24, 2018

Your Tax Dollars At Work

$6,600 - Fidget Spinners 
Department of Defense (2017)

$1.4 Million - Sex Education for Prostitutes
Barbara Lee, Democrat, California District 13 (2016)

$20 Million - Luxury Artwork
Department of Veterans Affairs (2007 to 2016) 

$114,375 - Cigar Taste Test
Robert Scott, Democrat, Virginia District 3 (2016)

$567,529 - Using Soap Operas to Reduce HIV in Urban Black Women
Mike Capuano, Democrat, Massachusetts District 7 (2016)

$5 Million - Hipster Parties
National Institutes of Health  (2015)

$932,741 - Study: Are Physician Trainees Racist?
Tim Walz, Democrat, Minnesota District 1 (2016)

$44 Million - 650 Federal Gardeners and Landscapers
US Office of Personnel Management (2016) 

$2.1 Million - Measuring Blood Pressure at Black Barbershops
Adam Schiff, Democrat, California District 28 (2016)

$788,664 - How Air Pollution Affects Birth by Race
Jerry McNerney, Democrat, California District 9 (2016)

$9.2 Million - Airport at Martha's Vineyard
Department of Transportation (2016) 

$4.8 Billion - 35,212 Federal Lawyers
Office of Personnel Management (2017)

$882,841- Reframing Latino Beliefs About Death & Dying
National Institutes of Health and Human Services (2015)

$815 Million - Funding Christian Seminaries
Department of Education (2014 to 2017)

$4.3 Billion - Federal Government Public Relations
All Federal Agencies (2007 to 2014)

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