What is the dumbest thing the federal government has wasted money on lately?
That’s a difficult question to answer, but only because politicians waste so much of U.S. taxpayers’ money. Fortunately, government spending watchdog OpenTheBooks provides their answers to that question in their annual “Where’s the Pork?” report.
What makes these reports fun to read aren’t the most wasteful items that cost billions and include things like the Paycheck Protection Program and the pandemic unemployment insurance programs. Instead, it’s because politicians cannot stop themselves from funding things that unquestionably provide little, if any, benefit to ordinary Americans. Here’s a short list of my
