You just paid your taxes, and this is what you bought

By Andrew Collins / April 15, 2014

Uncle Sam thanks you.

·         An $876,752 study on snail sex - A University of Iowa study is trying to figure out if it’s better for snails to reproduce sexually or asexually.

·         A $16 million tropical vacation- That was the final price tag on President Obama’s most recent holiday vacations to Hawaii and Africa.

·         A $750,000 study on how kid cartoons contribute to obesity - The National Science Foundation awarded two grants totaling $750,000 to find out if cartoon characters are making children overweight.

·         A $2.4 million program to develop “origami condoms” If you must know, it includes male and female versions, and the “first of its kind anal condom.”

·         A $30,410 “beauty salon” in a federal prison - At least it’s a women’s federal prison.

·         Millions in drugs for prisoners - Medicare sent millions in improper payments to incarcerated persons.

·         A $98,670 outhouse - The Federal Bureau of Land Management may have just built the most expensive outhouse ever at the Swede Park Trail Head in Alaska.

·         $700 million of Obamacare promotion - The big doozy. Despite President Obama’s claim that the government did not “make a hard sell” for Obamacare, his administration spent nearly $700 million to promote the law.

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