June 16, 2009 1:34PM 

# Sen. Coburn’s List of 100 Questionable “Stimulus” Projects 

By [Tad DeHaven](https://www.cato.org/people/tad-dehaven) 

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My old boss, Sen. Tom Coburn (R‑OK), has a [report out this morning](http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=59af3ebd-7bf9-4933-8279-8091b533464f) that identifies 100 “questionable” projects funded by the federal “stimulus” package. I’m not going to mention particular examples here. I’ll simply say that I hope the theme that readers of the Coburn report come away with is that the federal government should not fund state and local activities. The numerous examples in the Coburn report provide concrete evidence of this truth, and I wish the report would have spent more time in the introduction fleshing it out. Fortunately, my colleague Chris Edwards wrote an [excellent policy analysis](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8246) on the problems with federal subsidies to state and local government. Thus, I would encourage those interested to read the Coburn and Edwards reports together.

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