INDEX
- Vote 'NO!' to Government Regulation of Privacy at The Economist
- FCC Stalls on Internet Regulation; Asks for More Comments
- Why was the Volcker Commission Constrained by Obama’s Tax Pledge, but not the Simpson-Bowles?
- Daily Media Spotlight September 2, 2010
- Harry Reid Looks to Resurrect RES During Lame-Duck
- Calculating the Cost of Government (CFA Site »)
Thursday, September 2, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight September 1, 2010
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Obama Tax Commission Report:
Baby Step Toward IRS Tax Preparation - Dina Titus Launches False Attack Ad on Joe Heck and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- Indiana LaunchesTransparency Website (CFA Site »)
- Rally for Jobs Kicks Off Today in Texas
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight August 31, 2010
- Let us All Join in on the NOT so “Green Cause”
- California Bag Ban Bill Up for Vote Today
- Norquist to Gov. Pat Quinn: Pick a Flawed Income Tax Hike and Stick With It
- Phil Moffett Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in Kentucky Gubernatorial Race
- New Mexico Sets Trends in Transparency Websites (CFA Site »)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
- Robert Gibbs’s Fuzzy Tax Hike Math
- Daily Media Spotlight August 30, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
- 2011 Could Be Ugly for Nevada Taxpayers
- Lame Duck Governor Ed Rendell Not Going Gently Into That Good Night – New Call for Higher Taxes
- Happy Cost of Government Day, California
- Bay Staters Spent 239 Days Paying for Government Burdens in 2010 (CFA Site »)
- Washington Welcomes Cost of Government Day (CFA Site »)
Friday, August 27, 2010
- Spill Commission Should Lift Moratorium Which Has Cost Gulf Residents 12,000 Jobs and $2.1 Billion
- Daily Media Spotlight August 26, 2010
- Why is Dan Onorato Knowingly Misleading Pennsylvania Voters?
- Unions plan on spending big this election cycle
- Utah Tobacco Sellers Feeling the Impact of Tax Hikes
Thursday, August 26, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight August 25, 2010
- WI Democrats Launch “Blatantly False” Attack on Sean Duffy
- Unions plan on spending big this election cycle (AWF Site »)
- Philly's New Blog Tax May Foreshadow Other eTaxes
- BNA: For 14 States, Existing Tax Code Leaves Room for Etax (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Philly's $300 Blogger Tax (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Cost of Government Day Arrives in the Commonwealth
- Pennsylvania Finally Celebrates Cost of Government Day
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
- California Budget Proposal Advocates eTax (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Daily Media Spotlight August 24, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight August 23, 2010
- Government Workers' Pensions are Underfunded by $3 Trillion
Monday, August 23, 2010
- Fourteen Ways to Reduce Government Spending
- FCC Report on Broadband Performance: A Scare Tactic
- Sen. Al Franken Doesn’t Understand Wireless Networks...or the First Amendment
Friday, August 20, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight August 19, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Sen. Coburn Details "Stimulus" Waste in New Report
From Sandra Fabry on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:45 AM
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has released a report detailing 100 examples of waste in the "stimulus" - the trillion dollar spending and debt package President Obama and Congressional leadership touted as "must-pass-or-else" legislation.
As we predicted, the package has failed to deliver in the area of job creation although the administration continues to try to move the goal posts by using the arbitrary metric of "jobs saved/created." There is littlle oversight and taxpayers haven't seen much of the promised "unprecedented level of transparency yet."
And the money is also clearly not spent - as the administration had claimed - "without waste, without inefficiency, without fraud."
Here's the top ten list of wasteful programs according to Coburn's office:
- $1.5 million in “free” stimulus money for a new wastewater treatment plant results in higher utility costs for residents of Perkins, Oklahoma.
- $1 billion for FutureGen in Mattoon, Illinois is the “biggest earmark of all time” for a power plant that may never work.
- $15 million for “shovel-ready” repairs to little-used bridges in rural Wisconsin are given priority over widely used bridges that are structurally deficient.
- $800,000 for little-used John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania airport to repave a back-up runway; the ‘Airport for Nobody’ Has Already Received Tens of Millions in Taxpayer dollars.
- $3.4 million for a wildlife “eco-passage” in Florida to take animals safely under a busy roadway.
- Nevada non-profit gets $2 million weatherization contract after recently being fired for same type of work.
- $1.15 million for installation of a new guard rail for the non-existent Optima Lake in Oklahoma.
- Nearly $10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that hasn’t been used in 30 years.
- 10,000 dead people get stimulus checks, but the Social Security Administration blames a tough deadline.
- Town of Union, New York, encouraged to spend a $578,000 grant it did not request for a homelessness problem it claims it does not have.
See for yourself how this package that was rushed through Congress without giving lawmakers or the public an opportunity to actually read the bill is wasting taxpayer dollars. Click here to read Sen. Coburn's report.
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Comments
I applaud Sen. Coburn for his diligence in exposing the immensely wasteful nature of the stimulus bill. His intensely detailed list of unnecessary components in the stimulus bill attests to his dedication for legislative and political accountability. We should have more members of the GOP following in Coburn's commendable footsteps to further reveal the stimulus package for what it is--a poor excuse to increase the powers of the federal government and an excruciatingly superfluous piece of legislation. President Obama, stop playing the role of FDR--The New Deal did not get our country out of the Great Depression, World War II did, and this stimulus bill will not get us out of this recession either.
>> It's about time... Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:31 AM Report Comment
I agree with It's about time...we should have more members of the GOP following Coburn's initiative. I can't believe number 5!! $3.4 million for a wildlife “eco-passage” in Florida to take animals safely under a busy roadway....I'd bet that $3.4 million that after the "eco-passage" is built, animals won't even use it.
>> Alexa Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:28 PM Report Comment
There's nobody like Dr. Coburn in the Senate. The guy is about as passionate about the issue of wasteful spending as anyone; and the shame is that his work goes largely unnoticed by the entire mainstream establishment media.
>> Mel AZ Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:20 PM Report Comment
It really is about time that people start to know the truth about this so-called stimulus. One should always be skeptical when a piece of legislation is pushed so fast. I think that this report is a great example of why Congressional leadership pushed for this bill without giving anyone a chance to fully read the legislation.
>> surprise? not really Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:46 PM Report Comment
They passed it without reading it, but last week they had a chance to kill it and save the money. They have now read it, they understand it, but they won't kill it. What does that tell you?
>> TCH Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:01 PM Report Comment
Number 5 is by far the best. This will be helpful to homeless people who will have a new place to sleep. Maybe Union, NY should donate its bailout funds to the eco-passage, so they will serve their intended use.
>> Here we go again Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:14 PM Report Comment
I guess we can cancel the Murtha airport project and save some money... oh wait! We are run by lawyers and not business people. Well parachute his casket in.
>> Jeff Peterson Friday, February 12, 2010 11:37 AM Report Comment