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$1950000 for a library and archives at the Charles B Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York

Voters need to research subsidies using Internet tools and complain to Congress members about waste

$1648850 for the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago a private nonprofit business that has major corporate funding

$500000 for upgrades to Barracks Row a swank Capitol Hill neighborhood

$2400000 for renovations to Haddad Riverfront Park in Charleston

$492000 for the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum in Arvada Colorado

$188000 for the Lobster Institute in Maine

Industries should fund their own research

Taxpayers should not foot the bill for private gains

Reform will only come when voters start throwing fiscally irresponsible members out of office

CFDA was first published in 1965 and listed 263 programs

Most subsidy programs that existed in 1970 were created in the 1960s

$742764 for fruit fly research partly conducted in France

More than 1800 federal subsidy programs present a wealth of earmarking opportunities for legislators

Nobody knows where the economy is headed in the future especially not politicians in Washington

Federal energy research has poor track record energy industry should fund its own research as other industries do

Burdensome tax and regulatory policies helped push shipping-related industries offshore

When government starts choosing industries and technologies to subsidize it will likely bet on the wrong horses at taxpayer expense

Businesses and venture capital firms make many investments that turn sour but their losses are private and not foisted involuntarily on other people

Congress could provide every household with an annual tax cut of about $800 by ending corporate welfare