Here are 10 examples of waste that Waste Book reported:

• - $91 million worth of tax loopholes for the Professional Golfers’ Association, National Football League and the National Hockey League
• - A $516,000 video game called “Prom Week” that allows taxpayers to relive prom night
• - “RoboSquirrel,” a robotic squirrel that scientists are creating to test if rattlesnakes would eat it – this is part of a $325,000 grant to the National Science Foundation
• - $505,000 for specialty shampoo promotions marketed toward cats and dogs
• - $1.3 million corporate welfare for PepsiCo Inc.
• - Moroccan pottery classes as part of a $27 million grant to the U.S. Agency for International Development
• - $300,000 initiative to promote caviar consumption and production
• - $70 million waste to produce $35 million worth of pennies
• - $1.5 billion toward cell phone service subsidies
• - NASA budgets $1 million each year to develop a “Mars menu,” an effort to create a menu that humans could consume one day on our neighboring planet