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- 77 Environmentally Harmful Spending Subsidies Costing Taxpayers $50 Billion - Congress can save taxpayers $50 billion by cutting federal programs that harm the environment and waste money, according to a report released today by a coalition of environmental, taxpayer and consumer groups.
www.foe.org/eco/scissors2000/gs2k.pr.html
- Congress Goes Hog-Wild - Congress has gone hog-wild this year with an incredible increase in pork barrel-spending.
www.self-gov.org/good/a0339.html
- Congressional Porkbusters Coalition - The Porkbusters Coalition is a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives, Senators, and taxpayer groups dedicated to cutting wasteful government spending. Since its inception in 1991, the Porkbusters have led the fight against "porkbarrel" spending in Federal appropriations bills.
www.house.gov/royce/pork.htm
- Corporate Welfare Home - Check out the pork in the supplemental spending bill currently being considered by Congress. These programs are among the many government giveaways to big business that cost taxpayers over $100 billion a year.
www.citizen.org/congress/corwel/index.html
- Corporate Welfare Military Waste and Fraud - $172 billion a year - When it comes to wasting money, the Pentagon has no peer. For one thing, there's the single question of scale.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Welfare/Military_Fraud.html
- Government Failure: Standard Pork-Barrel Waste of Our Money - The things which are done with the huge amount of money taken from you by the government are just astonishing.
www.bmstahoe.com/Libertarian/lp11.html
- ISTEA: A Poisonous Brew for American Cities - Will travel be faster and easier in the 21st century, or will traffic be bogged down by a cumbersome central planning process that creates more urban congestion and gridlock? The answer depends on how Congress acts on the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.
www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-287.html
- Kill Defense Pork - The Pentagon and its allies have been arguing that the military is starved for funds. Yet the defense budget, adjusted for inflation, remains at the level of 1980, when there was a Cold War, Soviet Union, and Warsaw Pact. Congress has only repealed the Reagan military build-up.
www.cato.org/dailys/12-06-99.html
- NASA pork - NASA is a $14.5 billion dollar annual jobs program, not a space program. Discover why we're still ridiculously confined to Earth.
www.spaceprojects.com/pork2000
- PIRG : Cut Polluter Pork - Few Americans realize that the federal government spends or subsidizes billions of dollars on environmentally destructive activities such as paying corporate ranchers to destroy sensitive Western rangelands, providing tax breaks for coal mining and oil drilling, or promoting pesticide-intensive agriculture.
www.pirg.org/enviro/pork/index.htm
- Sports Pork - Government subsidizing of wealthy sports teams is one of the most obvious and wrongful kinds of government waste, and increase the price of sporting events.
www.cato.org//pubs/pas/pa-339es.html
- Tee-ing Off the Taxpayer - Transcript of a radio article about how government money is spent to subsidize...golf courses. And many other wasteful programs for, believe it or not, the military.
www.cdi.org/adm/Transcripts/948
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