Taxpayers Money facts

While investigating facts about Taxpayers Money, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Despite the NFL making more than $9 billion annually, projected to make more than $25 billion a year by 2027, pays its CEO more than $30 million a year, 68% of NFL stadium construction costs since 1923 coming from taxpayer money.

Las Vegas' new NHL team will use an arena funded by 0 taxpayer dollars. Meanwhile, the NFL's Raiders are asking for $750 million upfront in public money to fund the construction of a new stadium in order to relocate to LV.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 27 of the best facts about Taxpayers Money I managed to collect.

1. Taxpayer money is used by the military to pay NFL teams to honor them.

2. The longest bridge in Alaska crosses the Tanana River, costs $187 million in taxpayer money, and serves only 1 purpose: to give the army access to a shooting range across the river. It is unpaved, only 12ft wide and is gated off for non-army citizens.

3. In 1985, Richard Nixon Decided to Drop His Secret Service Protection Saying that its Yearly Cost of $3 Million From Taxpayers' Money is Too Much

4. There is a braille version of Playboy produced by the Library of Congress. In the 80s there was a congressional fight over whether taxpayer money should be used to produce the magazine. Courts eventually upheld the funding as a 1st amendment protection.

5. In 1995, Swedish politician Mona Sahlin bought, among other things, two bars of Toblerone using taxpayers' money. This became known as the Toblerone affair, and she was forced to step down as candidate for the post of Prime Minister.

6. Americans spend billions of dollars of public (taxpayer) money to build sports arenas for professional sports teams

7. In 1995 Swedish politician Mona Sahlin was forced to step down as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister because she bought two Toblerone bars with taxpayers' money. This became known as the Toblerone affair.

8. The state of Alabama spent $75000 in taxpayer money to obtain the rights to 'Sweet Home Alabama'

9. America actually spends far more taxpayer money on social welfare programs than on war.

10. Arizonan Larry Naman was so incensed over tax money being used to construct Chase Field, home of MLB team the Arizona Diamondbacks, that he shot County Supervisor Mary Wilcox. 20 year later, Naman showed up once again to protest NBA's Suns taxpayer funded arena-in front of Wilcox

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The Department of Defense has been paying sports teams to produce patriotic/nationalistic displays at sporting events. In some cases the national anthem and color guard ceremonies were advertisements paid for by taxpayer money.

For years, there was a Braille Edition of the Playboy Magazine with around 500 regular blind subscribers, which was published by the Library of Congress with taxpayers' money (when the US had a budget deficit of $200 billion), until the Republicans in Congress killed it in 1985. - source

Over 15 years of production and over 1 trillion USD of taxpayer money spent, the "F-35 Lighting II" fifth generation fighter is widely accepted as the most expensive and worst project failure in the history of the U.S. Military. - source

While investigating prostitution at a Seattle strip club, an undercover cop visited the club 160 times, spent at least $16,835 of taxpayer money on 130 lap dances and an undetermined number of undocumented dances, and never made a single arrest.

From 2010-2014 the USDA spent $34.4 million of taxpayer money on a US Soybean Association plan to try to kickstart a soybean industry in Afghanistan, even though most Afghans are unfamilar with soybean and dislike their taste - source

David Cronenberg's feature film debut Shivers (1975), about an alien parasite that spreads through sexual contact, was highly controversial in Cronenberg's home country of Canada as it was funded partly by Canadian taxpayer money.

The pope's visit to NYC will cost over $1.5 million in taxpayer money. A lot of the money is probably used just to close down every street that he will travel through. And all the NYPD overtime. Clear violation of Church/State and FFRF and Americans United are the only ones speaking up about it.

The Pentagon has never been audited resulting in 1 trillion of taxpayer money being unaccounted for since 1996

The export-Import Bank of the United States uses taxpayers money to subsidize the sale of planes to other countries, effectively undercutting the growth of US airlines and airports.

During Franklin Roosvelt's presidental campaign, the republicans tried to make a hoax that he left his dog, Fala, in the Aleutians Islands and had to spend taxpayers money on bringing him back on a destroyer. Franklin responded to this accusation by making a joke.

$8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996 that has never been accounted for.