Taxable Talk

I’m not a huge fan of Star Trek. I may have met Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher on the sequel, Star Trek: The Next Generation), but I just don’t watch much television. Apparently, someone (or several someones) at the IRS are fans of Star Trek. They spent $60,000 of taxpayer money to make a parody:

The parody is about the sins of wasting taxpayer money. I’ll let you, my faithful blog readers, determine whether or not you think the parody was worth $60,000. (I’m of the opinion it was money spent as effectively as the money spent on preparer regulation.)

There’s also another parody using Gilligan’s Island as the theme. While a Congressional subcommittee found that the Star Trek parody was a waste of money, the Gilligan’s Island video had legitimate value as a training video. The Gilligan’s Island video has not been released.

As the automatic budget cuts of the sequester move on, the clear wasteful spending that this video shows make it difficult for President Obama and others to say that the sequester budget cuts will be harmful.

Tags: Gilligan's.Island, Sequester, Star.Trek

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