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A list of ways our tax money is wasted by the government:

	$146 million annually for federal workers to buy first class premium plane tickets
	$1.8 million will go to California for exotic pet diseases research
	$2 million is being handed to the First Tee program, headquartered in St. Augustine, Florida, which uses golf to teach "life skills" to kids
	the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is getting $200,000 to educate schoolchildren about rock music
	$325,000 will pay for a public swimming pool in Salinas, California
	$175,000 is the price tag for a mural that will be painted on a flood wall in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
	North Pole, Alaska (population: 1,646), will get $200,000 for recreational improvements
	$250,000 to connect two ski resorts in New York—North Creek Ski Bowl and Gore Mountain Resort—so they can compete better with resorts in Vermont and New Hampshire.
	$250,000 to Washington State University and Michigan State University for research to cut asparagus-industry labor costs by using mechanical harvesting to replace human harvesters.
	$200,000 to Ocean Spray, a cranberry- and grapefruit- growers’ cooperative, to market white cranberry juice in Great Britain.
	$2 million to construct a parking facility at the University of the Incarnate Word, a Catholic institution in San Antonio, Tex.
	$70,000 to the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame in Appleton, Wis. for construction and renovation.
	$26 million to operate the Selective Service (draft boards) even though there is no draft now—and hasn’t been any since 1973.
	$519 million in farm subsidies (1995-2003) to Riceland Foods of Stuttgart, Ark., a co-op with 9,000 members, the world’s largest miller and marketer of rice. According to the Heritage Foundation, Riceland Foods receives more federal money in a typical year than all the farmers in 12 other states combined.
	$300,000 for a feasibility study for the world’s first fully enclosed motor speedway, to be built in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley.
	$150,000 to The Grammy Foundation to support Grammy Camp, where 60 high school students go to learn about the music business, including singing, songwriting and engineering. (Tuition, room and board is listed as $1,800.) Why are taxpayers helping the industry develop potential stars and other careers in the music business?
	$775,000 to the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla.—part of a project to provide economic opportunity in areas of low or moderate income. (Coral Gables’ per capita income is 19.6% above the U.S. average.) For the luxury hotel’s minimum rate, about $200 a night, 130 hurricane survivors could stay there for a month each.

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