Name the stupidest thing you think your tax money is currently going towards

9/29/2005 6:00:20 PM

Subsidizing your education at this public university

9/29/2005 6:04:49 PM

i could say the same thing for you, and i dont even go here right now

9/29/2005 6:06:28 PM

paying the salaries of bureaucratic asses, both republican and democrat (and those few independents), on capitol hill, who really don't give a shit about anyone until the election

and then it's a race to see how much smoke they can blow up people's asses until the next election

9/29/2005 6:09:48 PM

i was thinking more along the lines of welfare, stuff like that, but ok

9/29/2005 6:11:01 PM

Federal election campaigns.

Farmers who aren't growing anything.

[Edited on September 29, 2005 at 6:13 PM. Reason : .]

9/29/2005 6:11:32 PM

Steroid Investigations

9/29/2005 6:12:55 PM

The war in Iraq.

[Edited on September 29, 2005 at 6:29 PM. Reason : This is my opinion, so I don't want to hear anything.]

9/29/2005 6:22:47 PM

Every answer so far is fantastic.

9/29/2005 6:29:36 PM

paying for the fucking ghetto queen in front of me at food dog to get filets and ribeyes and tons of expensive snack food, while i have to scrimp and save and get food lion brand shit that's on sale.

9/29/2005 6:33:55 PM

Paying for art displays.

9/29/2005 6:36:07 PM

paying for african aid to tyrants

paying to subsidize disgusting art, and all art stuff

9/29/2005 6:38:43 PM

wow.... simply wow....

9/29/2005 6:42:01 PM

stop lights. those things suck.

9/29/2005 6:42:08 PM

paying George Bush and his rich friends. HALLIBURTON

[Edited on September 29, 2005 at 7:11 PM. Reason : ?]

9/29/2005 7:11:22 PM

tax incetives for poor oil complanies

9/29/2005 7:18:45 PM

1) Fighting forests fires

2) Killing owls in order to save the spotted owl

3) Rebuilding New Orleans

4) promoting diversity

5) putting gas in police gas-hog crusiers/cameros (especially when they are speeding -- $0.21 for each 5mph over 60 http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/driveHabits.shtml

[Edited on September 29, 2005 at 7:27 PM. Reason : -]

9/29/2005 7:24:13 PM

i'm gonna have to go with the aid to foreign country's for AIDS

9/29/2005 7:25:23 PM

There's wasting money on pointless stuff, and then there's wasting money on stuff that directly harms America.

So Iraq.

And as a a corollary, flying GWB's ass around the country for campaigning.

[Edited on September 29, 2005 at 7:38 PM. Reason : .]

9/29/2005 7:36:54 PM

Quote :

"Farmers who aren't growing anything."

9/29/2005 7:45:42 PM

im going to go with farm subsidies as well

9/29/2005 8:23:02 PM

how about all business subsidies.

9/29/2005 9:28:05 PM

quit hating our freedoms

9/29/2005 9:30:36 PM

prosecuting people like me who don't pay taxes

9/29/2005 9:31:23 PM

Quote :

"and then there's wasting money on stuff that directly harms America. "

and thats why my vote goes to the DEA and everything else to do with the war ond drugs.

9/29/2005 9:44:27 PM

^ I agree with that as well.

Probably much worse than the war in Iraq.

9/29/2005 10:29:41 PM

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"while i have to scrimp and save and get food lion brand shit that's on sale."

have you ever applied for federal/state assistance?

its a lot easier than people think

and if you're really having to "scrimp", you probably qualify

9/29/2005 10:38:59 PM

DEA
Iraq
Amtrak (unless theyre going to make the trains run on time, b/c they're always 2 hours late)
politician salaries
ANY campaignes

9/29/2005 10:40:57 PM

1. tax incetives for poor oil complanies
2. rainforest in iowa
3. Steroid Investigations
4. The war in Iraq
5. flying GWB's ass around the country for campaigning
6. Karl Rove
7. Don Young Bridge
8. Flying GWB on an aircraft carrier with a banner saying "Mission Accomplished"
9. Campaigns
10. FEMA (not because it isn't needed, but b/c looked at who we were paying and the results)

9/29/2005 10:44:23 PM

debating the official state BBQ festival in the NC legislature

9/29/2005 10:49:03 PM

^^pretty much my entire list right there

i dont want to give anyone in the white house a fucking penny

9/29/2005 10:50:47 PM

where's the don young bridge?

9/29/2005 10:57:42 PM

and wtf is this about rainforest in iowa?

9/29/2005 10:59:01 PM

don young bridge= bridge in alaska connecting mainland to an island with like 10 people on it

no fucking clue about an iowa rainforest, and ive been there alot. go hawkeyes.

[Edited on September 29, 2005 at 11:03 PM. Reason : .]

9/29/2005 11:03:16 PM

Don't forget that people actually get paid to live in alaska

9/29/2005 11:04:44 PM

Yea, but not tax money.

9/29/2005 11:37:23 PM

in essence... just cause you dont directly give it to them labeled tax money... doesnt mean its not the same thing

9/29/2005 11:39:48 PM

i also think that the prison system gets a lot of money to have nicer facilities

9/29/2005 11:41:29 PM

Alaska has no income or sales tax. The money is dividends from the states oil holdings.

[Edited on September 29, 2005 at 11:43 PM. Reason : ?]

9/29/2005 11:41:37 PM

we need to start buying up huge tracks of land in alaska

when global warming really sets in
thats where the shits gonna be

and thanks to pork barrel spending

all the amenities of normal america are right at your fingertips

9/29/2005 11:43:04 PM

yeah, prison money could be cut, but mostly by just emptying out the people in there for possession, thats a great start

9/30/2005 12:07:56 AM

I can't believe THABIGL is an economics major.

9/30/2005 1:01:52 AM

training killer dolphins

9/30/2005 1:25:53 AM

aid to israel

9/30/2005 1:35:09 AM

Paying my salary... while I'm posting in this fourm.

9/30/2005 4:11:09 AM

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"wtf is this about rainforest in iowa? "

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2004_EW

Quote :

"$50,000,000 added in conference for an indoor rainforest project in Coralville, Iowa by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). The project, which originally was included in the Energy Policy Act of 2003 bill that failed to pass in December, 2003, became so indispensable that Sen. Grassley added it to the Omnibus Appropriations Bill in late January 2004. When completed, Iowa will have the world’s largest enclosed rainforest, spanning five acres. A local businessman, Ted Townsend (heir to the Townsend meat-packing fortune), came up with this idea while contemplating his legacy on a treadmill. Since then, Townsend has worked to see that taxpayers will pay dearly for his dream to be realized. The project, which is estimated to cost $225 million, includes a generous $5 million from Townsend. This tropical boondoggle has some big name supporters, such as former Iowa Governor Bob Ray (R), who is the chairman of the institute Townsend founded to oversee the production of the rainforest. Ray imagines that it will solve the state’s “demographic problems” by drawing more people to move to Iowa. Ray also believes that mass quantities of retiring baby boomers will “crisscross the country” to visit the indoor rainforest. Senator Grassley claims that it will somehow help the University of Iowa. Ultimately, this project will do nothing for Iowa’s population, energy industry, or the environment, but it will soak the taxpayers. "

9/30/2005 7:32:55 AM

Trip to the moon maybe? They could probably cut every man woman and child in america a check for $800 for the amount of money they will end up dropping on that mission.

9/30/2005 11:15:22 AM

all types of levels of governments' vacations and meals and all that

9/30/2005 11:17:51 AM

^^^



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[Edited on September 30, 2005 at 11:33 AM. Reason : ^^^]

9/30/2005 11:32:47 AM

^^ actually, camaro Z-28 patrol cars get much better mileage than a crown victoria. I won't even post EPA #'s because it's common knowlege

9/30/2005 11:40:44 AM