06 Apr 2005 Brian Riedl: Top Ten Examples of Government Waste

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Brian M. Riedl of the Heritage Foundation has an eye-popping new paper out, “The Top 10 Examples of Government Waste.” Here they are:

1. The Missing $25 Billion
2. Unused Flight Tickets Totaling $100 Million
3. Embezzled Funds at the Department of Agriculture
4. Credit Card Abuse at the Department of Defense
5. Medicare Overspending
6. Funding Fictitious Colleges and Students
7. Manipulating Data to Encourage Spending
8. State Abuse of Medicaid Funding Formulas
9. Earned Income Tax Credit Overpayments
10. Redundancy Piled on Redundancy

Read the whole thing for details.



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