How government is wasting your tax dollars

Free cell phones cost taxpayers $1.6 billion

Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts. The program, overseen by the FCC and intended to help low-income Americans, is popular for obvious reasons, with participation rising steeply since 2008, when the government paid $772 million for phones and monthly bills. But observers complain that the program suffers from poor oversight, in which phones go to people who don't qualify, and hundreds of thousands of those who do qualify have more than one phone.

Read more: http://moneyland.time.com/2012/02/08/how-to-get-the-government-to-cover-your-cell-phone-bills/#ixzz1lzOcZz7G

 

Expensive massages, top shelf vodka and five-star hotels: First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029615/Michelle-Obama-accused-spending-10m-public-money-vacations.html#ixzz1lzP7PCdE

 

Taxpayer Money Used To Maintain Million-Dollar Yacht

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — With the city going broke you may be surprised to find out that Los Angeles is the proud owner of a million dollar yacht and it is about to undergo hundreds of thousands of dollars  ($489K) in renovations at taxpayer expense.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/06/taxpayer-money-used-to-maintain-million-dollar-yacht/

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Dependence on Government at All-Time High

Family and friends, this is a political strategy.  Which party do you think will get elected if 49.5% pay no federal income taxand receive so many government benefits?

Government dependency jumped 8.1 percent in the past year.  The average individual who relies on Washington could receive benefits valued at $32,748, more than the nation’s average disposable personal income ($32,446).

At the same time, nearly half of the U.S. population (49.5% - up from 47.5%) does not pay any federal income taxes.

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/08/dependence-on-government-at-all-time-high/

This should infuriate the hard working, sacrificing, penny pinching, tax-paying individuals regardless of your party affiliation.