{"id":16009,"date":"2012-10-17T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16009"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:31:02","slug":"where-your-tax-dollars-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16009","title":{"rendered":"Where Your Tax Dollars Went…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article yesterday featuring Oklahoma<\/a> Republican<\/a> Senator Tom Coburn<\/a>‘s \u201cWastebook 2012<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The highlights:<\/p>\n

The annual list<\/a> of 100 of the most wasteful projects and redundancies includes everything from a $300,000 initiative to market caviar, $516,000 to create a video game simulating a high school prom<\/a> night, a government funded study to find out if golfers perform better when they imagine a bigger hole, $947,000 spent on studying what food people could eat on Mars, and part of a $325,000 grant spent on a robotic squirrel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coburn also points out tax loopholes for professional sports that list themselves as non-profit organizations<\/a>, pointing out that that status affords the NFL<\/a>, NHL<\/a>, and PGA \u00a0receive $89.9 million in de facto government subsidies. The report also delves into the mismanagement of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program<\/a> \u2014 or food stamps \u2014 which has resulted in $4.5 billion spent on things like Starbucks<\/a>, alcohol, guns, and junk food.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After reading this, I wonder if we should be more concerned about taxing the NFL, NHL, and the PGA instead of all this talk about millionaires and billionaires. Guess what, even if all profession sports were taxed more, people would still pay outrageous prices for tickets.<\/div>\n
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Please follow the link above to the article. Based on this article, any Congressman responsible for these expenditures needs to be given a different job in November. I strongly recommend that those Congressmen should be asked to live in the private sector economy they have created.<\/div>\n
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The Daily Caller posted an article yesterday featuring Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn‘s \u201cWastebook 2012.\u201d The highlights: The annual list of 100 of the most wasteful projects and redundancies includes everything from a $300,000 initiative to market caviar, $516,000 to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,4195,4197,4198,1737,4196,127,1609],"class_list":["post-16009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-daily-caller","tag-national-football-league","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nfl","tag-oklahoma","tag-starbucks","tag-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program","tag-tom-coburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16012,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009\/revisions\/16012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}