Porkapalooza: Government Spending is out of Control--Exhibit #23

Posted to blog Daily Money Dish on October 30, 2009 9:48 AM

Welcome to a new regular feature on Daily Money Dish! Porkapalooza is our way of showing you each week just what it is that you are going to work to pay for every week as a taxpayer. We will expose government waste, fraud and idiocy so that you can see exactly how your hard earned tax dollars are being spent.

We hope that we can shine an unwelcome spotlight on these shenanigans and that you will put your representatives in Washington on notice that you are watching and won't stand for it any longer!

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Porkapalooza: Pass Go, Pay $200

Posted to blog Daily Money Dish on November 2, 2009 5:21 AM

If you have ever played Monopoly, then the name Reading Railroad will sound familiar. It was part of a four-railroad syndicate that often provided good cash for a player's investment in the rents it generated from a hapless opponent who landed there.

Today, you are that hapless player as Washington treats your tax dollars like Monopoly money.

You've heard of the "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska...well today we've got the train station to nowhere--funded with your tax dollars.

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Tax the Rich!

Posted to blog Daily Money Dish on November 4, 2009 2:17 PM

Washington's favorite quick solution to deficit spending is to tax the rich.

But the idea that taxing the "rich" is a fix for state—or national—fiscal woes is baloney.

I want to share a little story with you...one that has us owing $50,000 in taxes, walking away from a successful television show and leaving NYC.

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Porkapalooza: Government Fraud & Mistakes Waste $98 Billion

Posted to blog Daily Money Dish on November 23, 2009 7:18 AM

The White House has admitted that the federal government made $98 billion in "improper" payments in fiscal 2009. Some of the "improper" payments were due to "misdirected" payments while others were out and out fraud.

Porkapalooza on steroids!!

So how is the administration going to address the problem?

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