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Tax dollar give away, did you get yours?
Well, next time you might want to broden your thoughts on the grants you apply for!
TOP 10 TAKEAWAYS
Just how much federal waste, duplication and weird or unnecessary spending are your tax dollars funding?
1. Summary: Federal agencies awarded 1,999,811 grants for $2.3 trillion (FY2017-FY2019). The average award during this period was $1,128,088.
2. Pork Barrel Spenders: Democrats held eight and Republicans held two of the top ten grant-receiving congressional districts. Among the top fifty grant-receiving districts, the Democrats held thirty seats and Republicans held twenty.
3. Waste Examples: Hookers For Jesus ($530,190); space alien detection ($549,974); tai chi classes in senior centers ($671,251); a "walk and talk" mobile app for Latinas ($1.4 million); and creating outdoor gardens at schools ($1.6 million). Taxpayers funded story time at laundromats ($248,200); webcast-livestreamed eclipses ($1.9 million); and sex education for prostitutes in Ethiopia ($2.1 million).
4. Top Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) distributed $1.5 trillion in grants – which was approximately seven of every ten dollars. Twenty-one other agencies awarded $1 billion in grants.
5. United Nations (UN): 59 agencies and entities of the UN received $11.8 billion in grants from nine federal agencies during the three-year period.
6. World Health Organization: received an increase in funding during the first three-years of the Trump administration (2017-2019) vs. the first-three years of the Obama second-term (2013-2015): $1.4 billion vs. $1.1 billion (inflation adjusted).
7. Ivy League, Inc. The eight Ivies received $9.8 billion in federal grants despite having a collective endowment of $140 billion – which was up $20 billion since 2016.
8. Fortune 100: ten companies received a combined $271.5 million in federal grants (2017-2019). The top companies included General Electric ($114.5 million), United Technologies ($51.9 million), and Boeing Corp. ($27.4 million). Collectively, these three companies spent $174 million lobbying Congress (2014-2017).
9. Top For-Profits: The top receiver was Amtrak ($5 billion). Amtrak's revenues were $10.2 billion; therefore, federal grants comprised half of all revenues (2017-2019).
10. Economic Subsidy (per capita): Washington D.C. received more than $58,000 per person, followed by Alaska ($17,639), New York ($10,987), Vermont ($10,240), and New Mexico ($9,944). Despite the claim "taxation without representation," DC certainly gets a lot of grants.
Did you get yours???
Well, next time you might want to broden your thoughts on the grants you apply for!
TOP 10 TAKEAWAYS
Just how much federal waste, duplication and weird or unnecessary spending are your tax dollars funding?
1. Summary: Federal agencies awarded 1,999,811 grants for $2.3 trillion (FY2017-FY2019). The average award during this period was $1,128,088.
2. Pork Barrel Spenders: Democrats held eight and Republicans held two of the top ten grant-receiving congressional districts. Among the top fifty grant-receiving districts, the Democrats held thirty seats and Republicans held twenty.
3. Waste Examples: Hookers For Jesus ($530,190); space alien detection ($549,974); tai chi classes in senior centers ($671,251); a "walk and talk" mobile app for Latinas ($1.4 million); and creating outdoor gardens at schools ($1.6 million). Taxpayers funded story time at laundromats ($248,200); webcast-livestreamed eclipses ($1.9 million); and sex education for prostitutes in Ethiopia ($2.1 million).
4. Top Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) distributed $1.5 trillion in grants – which was approximately seven of every ten dollars. Twenty-one other agencies awarded $1 billion in grants.
5. United Nations (UN): 59 agencies and entities of the UN received $11.8 billion in grants from nine federal agencies during the three-year period.
6. World Health Organization: received an increase in funding during the first three-years of the Trump administration (2017-2019) vs. the first-three years of the Obama second-term (2013-2015): $1.4 billion vs. $1.1 billion (inflation adjusted).
7. Ivy League, Inc. The eight Ivies received $9.8 billion in federal grants despite having a collective endowment of $140 billion – which was up $20 billion since 2016.
8. Fortune 100: ten companies received a combined $271.5 million in federal grants (2017-2019). The top companies included General Electric ($114.5 million), United Technologies ($51.9 million), and Boeing Corp. ($27.4 million). Collectively, these three companies spent $174 million lobbying Congress (2014-2017).
9. Top For-Profits: The top receiver was Amtrak ($5 billion). Amtrak's revenues were $10.2 billion; therefore, federal grants comprised half of all revenues (2017-2019).
10. Economic Subsidy (per capita): Washington D.C. received more than $58,000 per person, followed by Alaska ($17,639), New York ($10,987), Vermont ($10,240), and New Mexico ($9,944). Despite the claim "taxation without representation," DC certainly gets a lot of grants.
Did you get yours???
