Here in the Live Free or Die state, we file our federal tax returns at the last possible moment. It's one part our heritage as flinty New England Yankees, two parts sending a message to a federal government spending money like a drunken sailor.

It's also a chance to look back on the vast amounts of our money that went to wasteful, environmentally destructive projects over the last year.

Projects like the $15 billion in subsidies for the oil and gas industries included in the 2005 energy bill. Or the $300 billion transportation bill, stuffed with more than 6300 special earmarks, mostly projects that would never withstand scrutiny on their own.

Or the ongoing billions in subsidies we're paying to support logging in our national forests.

You can read the Green Scissors report documenting billions in savings available by cutting environmentally damaging, wasteful projects here.

In the meantime, mail those checks.