Fanciest Bus Stop in America
2013 was a big year for Arlington County, Virginia. The area received plenty of federal funding to create, well, a luxury ‘SuperStop.’ This bus stop was planned to become the fanciest in the U.S., with heated benches, widewalks and Wi-Fi.
And the cherry on top? ‘A wall made of etched glass that opens the rear vista to newsly planted landscaping,’ as officials explained. Well, the slanted glass roof doesn’t protect people from rain, nor does it offer shade in summertime.
Cost to taxpayers: $1 million
3 thoughts on “7 Stupid Things the Government Wasted Your Tax Money on”
This is insane? That money could be used to help our starving, homeless Americans. What a waste of money, & Americans are struggling to put their kids through college. They could use this $$$ to help kids get educated!
The fact that our government wastes our money very dramatically is very well known and it’s an OLD story. The question Americans have is …. why does this outrage continue? It is sickening! Not that we waste money but that we know it and we continue the waste year after year.
Yes, the government did spend money on things that turned out not to be good investments. So let’s add up the whole lot of them, multiply it by perhaps a thousand, and you don’t even begin to pay for one F-35 airplane that the armed forces don’t even want.
As for the solar panels, adding an anti-reflection coating to the cover glass would not only eliminate most of the offending reflection but would improve the efficiency by about 5%.