What is the single largest waste in (US) government spending?

Health Care The federal budget for health care in 2012 is $894.5 billion. A large portion of this budget is wasted on inefficiencies, corrupt business practices, and run away cost controls. read more

Our goal was to eliminate a dangerous dictator and his "supposed" stocks of weapons of mass destruction. read more

Besides the obvious reluctance to pay more, there's Senator Tom Coburn's "Waste Book," a compendium of 100 idiotic ways the federal government frittered away our tax dollars in 2011. Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, says the unnecessary, duplicative and low-priority projects in the book, released today, add up to an astounding $6.5 billion. read more

There is an embarrassment of riches to choose from in picking seven good examples of the most wasteful or ridiculous government spending in 2015, thanks to Flake, Lankford and Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense. read more