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Russell’s latest follows suit. It criticizes: • Department of Agriculture grants subsidizing the sale of a Virginia company’s moonshine, solar power at a Michigan brewery and “meat-infused string cheese.”

• The planned destruction of an estimated $16 billion in Defense Department ammunition.

“Little is known about how much of this stockpile is usable,’’ the report says. “The DOD should do its best to fill this data gap to prevent unnecessary destruction of ammunition.”

• National Parks Service grants for National Heritage Areas. According to the report, the parks service has repeatedly tried to reduce the amount of funding for them, but Congress has repeatedly restored it. • And the tax credit for selling alternative fuel. The report cites the case of Jim Brown, who owns a Moore 7-Eleven that sells compressed natural gas for vehicle fuel.

Because of congressional inaction, the tax credit had expired at the end of 2014, and Brown didn’t plan for it in 2015. However, when Congress renewed the credit late last year, the IRS sent Brown a check for “well over $100,000.”

Brown decided to reduce the price of CNG at his station until the money could essentially be “returned” to taxpayers.

Russell’s report says the payments to Brown and others were taxpayer waste because the businesses didn’t need the credits to sell the fuel.

“The best way to prevent this waste is to overhaul the corporate tax code” to eliminate as many special-interest tax breaks as possible, the report says.