How much should it cost to restore salmon to a river? Try $22 million per salmon under legislation that is moving through Congress.
The salmon saga began seventy-five years ago, when the state of California decided to divert water from the San Joaquin River and use it for agricultural purposes. Twenty year ago, a lawsuit was [...]
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Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), the nation’s premiere taxpayer watchdog, and the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR), Tennessee’s free market think tank, unveiled the 2008 Tennessee Pork Report: Waste, Fraud and Abuse of Your Tax Dollars Exposed. The report is the third Tennessee Pork Report in as many years to expose wasteful spending by [...]
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Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and the Illinois Policy Institute have released the 2008 Illinois Piglet Book, identifying $686 million in wasteful spending in the state budget.
The $686 Million in Illinois Wasteful Spending includes:
· $4 million for a Ford Technical Training Center in Chicago Heights;
· $1 million for the Illinois film office in Chicago;
· $920,000 [...]
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On the heels of the wildly successful 2008 Congressional Pig Book comes the 2008 Illinois Piglet Book!
On April 9, CAGW and the Illinois Policy Institute will release the latest Illinois Piglet Book. The Illinois Piglet combines elements of two perennial CAGW publications, the Congressional Pig Book and Prime Cuts, with the Illinois Policy Institute’s knowledge of [...]
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Last week, John Stanton from Roll Call had a great article on how a top aide to Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) is using his position to secure earmarks and funding to a town in which he is also an elected local official - which is against House rules.
Illinois Aide Claims Earmarks Credit($)
A top aide to Rep. [...]
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In today’s Washington Post:
County Executive to Get $65,000 Bathroom
As Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett works to raise taxes and eliminate 225 jobs, a construction crew is installing a bathroom in his locked suite of offices, complete with a small sitting room and shower. The cost to taxpayers: $65,225.
Leggett’s aides said yesterday that his security detail [...]
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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Ted Stevens to reveal requests for earmarks
Stevens plans to post all of the earmark requests he’s received from state and municipal governments and private organizations for fiscal year 2009, Saunders said. The deadline for submitting earmark requests was Feb. 15.
CAGW responds in a press release to this news here
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Sen. DeMint (a CCAGW Taxpayer Hero) targets a city’s earmarks for its hostility toward the Marines:
U.S. Senator Wants to Revoke Funding From City of Berkeley, Calif., for Vote to Boot Marines
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., says the City of Berkeley, Calif., no longer deserves federal money.
DeMint was angered after learning that the Berkeley City [...]
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CAGW in conjunction with the Washington Policy Center just unveiled the Washington State Piglet Book: Connecting the Dots on How Government Wastes Your Money, the definitive guide for reducing waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the Washington state government.
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U.S. News & World Report’s Senior Writer Michael Barone’s Blog Column examines how public employee unions drive costs up for taxpayers. Notable quote:
…the public employee unions exert enormous upward pressure on state and local government spending and enormous downward pressure on the accountability of public employees. Over time this will tend to increase the share [...]
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Today, CAGW and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Foundation released their analysis of waste in the CA state budget.
Read the press release
Download the report
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