For every dollar you earn, a portion of it is set aside and allotted to the federal government. Most people don’t take the time to really delve into where all this money goes, but if you do, you might not be too happy with what you find.
The reality is that there is no shortage of ridiculous ways that the government wastes US tax dollars every single year. Believe it or not, some of the things our tax dollars paid for in 2017 include $2.5 million in social security for chimpanzees, $1.6 million to fund a study to find out if people lose more weight when they are paid to lose weight, and $1 billion to expand the trolley system in San Diego by 10.9 miles.
These uses of taxpayer money are so ludicrous they may sound like a joke, and we really wish they were. Unfortunately, each one is a very real way the government decided to spend the hard-earned money of Americans last year. When you consider the fact that we are currently over $20 trillion in debt as a nation these expenditures become all the more mind-boggling.
Liberals like to pretend that the government knows how to put money to better use than the average citizen who they want to foot the bill. When you start looking at the ways the government spends money, though, it becomes painfully obvious that this is not the case.
For the full list of ridiculous things our tax dollars paid for last year, be sure to check out the video below.
