Government Waste on Townhall

• The Pentagon as a Jobs Program Mon May 6
  Tad DeHaven
  Over the past two years Congress has spent almost a half billion taxpayer dollars—and wants to spend another $436 million—upgrading Abrams tanks that experts and the Army itself say aren’t needed. ... more
• An Aggravating Reminder of Government Waste on Tax Day Tue Apr 16
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  Remember the Spending Quiz from 2010, which asked people to guess whether absurd examples of government waste were true or false? ... more
• Insane Government Waste and Use of Taxpayer Money Thu Mar 28
  Katie Pavlich
• Great Moments in Government Waste Tue Mar 26
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  Taxpayers all across America send lots of money to Washington, DC, in part because we’re supposed to believe that redistribution is a legitimate and desirable function of the federal government. ... more
• You Won’t Believe Our Government Waste Mon Mar 18
  Armstrong Williams
  In 1996 President Bill Clinton announced, “The era of Big Government is over.” He balanced a budget by eliminating waste and inefficiency. ... more
• How the Feds Are Conning You Sat Mar 16
  Bill O'Reilly
  This week President Obama told ABC News that the current national debt, which is approaching $17 trillion, is "sustainable," and he does not feel the need to try to balance the budget. Where is Herbert Hoover when we need an economic genius? ... more
• Education and Transportation: We Have No Idea How Much Money We Spend on Conferences Tue Mar 5
  Katie Pavlich
• Report: $340 Million in Taxpayer Money Wasted on Conferences in 2012 Thu Feb 28
  Leah Barkoukis
• Sequester-Sized Government Waste Can Go First Tue Feb 26
  John Ransom
  The question that’s most salient here isn’t the monies that are at stake now, but the monies that have been wasted before- and will be wasted again if we don’t demand cuts now. Monies that won't go to teachers and firefighters and cops and soldiers. Money that will reward those who've created the monster. ... more
• The Food Stamp Economy Thu Jan 10
  Larry Elder
  The New York Post headline read: "Could You Spend $500 on Food at This Bodega? A Welfare Recipient Claimed To!" A few days later, another headline: "Welfare Recipients Take Out Cash at Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores and X-Rated Shops." "They're on the dole -- and watching the pole," wrote the Post. "Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs -- where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers." ... more
• How Congress Is Getting It Wrong Mon Dec 10
  Tim Phillips
  In the current debate over the lame duck deal, the focus seems to be solely on the issue of taxes. Raising rates or closing loopholes: which will it be? After all it’s essential that the federal government increase its revenues, right? ... more
• Taxpayers Pay $3 Million For Buffalo, NY Teacher's Plastic Surgery Fri Nov 30
  Buffalo, NY
  Megyn Kelly reports that Buffalo might not want to, "pay for the lipo of its teachers in a school district where only half the kids are graduating." ... more
• Airfields of Dreams Thu Nov 29
  Steven Malanga
  If you build it, they won’t come. ... more
• The New Normal Mon Oct 22
  Tim Phillips
  To hear President Obama talk you’d think the last four years demonstrate that the country is headed in the right direction. According to the President, life in America is pretty rosy and only getting better. Unfortunately, for many families that just isn’t true. ... more
• Moroccan Pottery, Obamaphones, and Gaydar: How the Government Wasted Your Money This Year Tue Oct 16
  Kevin Glass
  Senator Tom Coburn released the Wastebook 2012 today detailing the 100 most egregious wastes of taxpayer money. It's emblematic of the waste found everywhere in the federal budget. ... more
• Tom Coburn's Wastebook Report Documents Wasteful Government Spending Tue Oct 16
  Washington, D.C.
  Tom Coburn released the "Wastebook Report" today, which features 100 wasteful places that the government is spending money. ... more
• Legal Fight with Florida Unions Costs Taxpayers Nearly $500,000 Tue Aug 28
  Kyle Olson
  Most people would be thankful if they only had to pay three percent of their salary toward retirement. That would be considered a gift in the private sector. But to Florida’s government employees, it’s a crime and an insult. ... more
• The Citizen and the Government Tue May 22
  Cal Thomas
  In the Aesop Fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing and hopping and having an all-around good time while industrious ants work and march and struggle to carry kernels of corn to their anthills, storing up for the winter to come. ... more
• Paul Ryan: 'Stop Measuring Compassion by How Much We Spend' Tue May 8
  Kate Hicks
• Is the U.S. Postal Service Worth Saving? Sun Apr 29
  Elisabeth Meinecke
• You Decide: Is This Worth Paying Taxes For? Tue Apr 24
  Katie Pavlich
• Lessons of the GSA Scandal vs. the Secret Service Scandal Tue Apr 24
  Wayne Allyn Root
  The national media is dominated at this moment by two gigantic scandals involving the U.S. government. One involves the GSA- General Services Administration- and their excessive spending on a conference in Las Vegas. The other involves the U.S. Secret Service and their excessive behavior on a Presidential trip to Columbia. Both scandals present valuable lessons about the way our government operates. ... more
• Taxpayer-Funded Science: Rats, Cocaine, and Miles Davis Edition Thu Apr 19
  Kate Hicks
• A Government of Waste Thu Apr 19
  Judge Andrew Napolitano
  What can we learn from allegations against a half-dozen supervisors in the Government Services Administration for wasting, and perhaps stealing, taxpayer dollars on foolishness in Las Vegas, and against a dozen Secret Service agents for dangerously procuring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, while there to prepare for a visit by the president? ... more
• Michelle Obama's "Food Deserts," Aren't Actually Food Deserts Thu Apr 19
  Erika Johnsen

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