#taxpayer — Public Fediverse posts
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@BackFromTheDud no that was #smedleybutler #Eisenhower said "beware of the #industrialmilitarycomplex" both in essence mean the same a small elite plunders #government #taxpayer #money into #privatepockets
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He's going to pay his #maga #insurrectionists out of his new #AntiWeaponizationFund using #taxpayer #money.
But he's not paying them for the #Jan6 storming of the #US #Capitol back in 2021.
This is the down payment for storming the Capitol immediately after the November #Midterm #Elections *this* year.
He's paying people to come back and finish the job they started five years ago.
Top #Treasury #lawyer resigns as Trump, #IRS settlement announced
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5884833-morrissey-departure-treasury-doj/ -
#Oklahoma Supreme Court Says No to State #Funding for a #Religious Charter #School
In a closely watched case, Oklahoma’s highest court blocked what was set to become the nation’s first religious charter school. An #appeal is likely.
#law #ChurchAndState #ChristianEvangelism #NewApostolicReformation #RightWing #SCOTUS #religion #taxpayer #ReligiousSchools #conservative #PublicFunding #education
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/us/oklahoma-supreme-court-religious-charter-school.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb -
But critics argue that its reliance on the #HonorSystem [esp given #HouseRepublicans dearth of honor] & lack of #transparent record-keeping makes it ripe for abuse.
The reimbursement scheme’s lack of receipt requirements is a “ridiculous loophole … Clearly it becomes very difficult to tell whether or not it’s a legitimate payment & whether it’s proper,” said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the good govt group Public Citizen. -
#California’s #DemocratParty run state #Legislature is scrambling this week to reneg and kill their own law that is increasing the #healthcare #workers #MinimumWage to $25 on June 1. #GovNewsom signed the bill into #law when he strutted about claiming he was flush with a #TaxPayer #Surplus dollars and now wants to pull it due to bogus #BudgetCut #CApolitics...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-25-an-hour-minimum-wage-boomerang-newsom-healthcare-d86c8515?st=87bfw2odj2mnet4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #WSJ #GiftLink #PaywallLift
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TODAY! #Supai, #Ute, #Dine', #Lakota Testify on #Uranium #Exploitation before Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights
by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
February 28, 2024WASHINGTON -- "The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear testimony from Navajo, Ute, and #Oglala Lakota, on the impacts on #IndigenousPeoples' human rights from uranium exploitation in Washington on Feb. 28, 2024.
"'#NahasdzáánShimá — #MotherEarth—provides everything we need to keep us alive—the four things we Navajos talk about —air, water, soil, and light—and it is our home,' said #EdithHood, President, of #RedWaterPondRoadCommunityAssociation.
"'We have been living with this silent killer without knowing the dangers. Once the #mining started, after the drilling, we didn’t realize we were being contaminated.'
"'When we were children playing and herding sheep we didn’t understand we were being exposed to dangerous #radiation,' Hood said.
Hood thanked the commission for the hearing and added, "Our own #Tribalgovernment doesn’t listen to us.'"The #InterAmericanCommission on Human Rights agreed to hold a thematic hearing on how U.S. uranium exploitation policies have resulted in human rights abuses in Indigenous communities across the country. This coincides with an upsurge in #UraniumMining, said the #NewMexico #EnvironmentalLawCenter.
"'As the United States doubles down on the misguided notion that #NuclearPower is a solution to the #ClimateCrisis, the uranium development industry is beginning to benefit from generous #taxpayer giveaways to the nuclear industry as a whole.'
"'Subsidies from the #Biden administration have spurred uranium mining production to restart in at least 3 mines in the last few months, in #Utah, #Wyoming, and in Arizona near the #GrandCanyon. As has been the case since the dawn of the #AtomicAge, the impacts of uranium mining are largely left out of the debate over nuclear power.'
"#EnergyFuels said it is increasing U.S. uranium production as prices reach a 16-year high. Energy Fuels said in December that it is ramping up uranium production at three mines #PinyonPlain in in the Grand Canyon, and #LaSal and #Pandora uranium mines in southeastern #Utah.
"Ore mined from the three mines during 2024 will be stockpiled at the Energy Fuels #WhiteMesaMill in Utah for processing in 2025. It is also preparing two mines, #Whirlwind in southeastern Utah, and #NicholsRanch in central Wyoming, to begin uranium production within one year, Energy Fuels said.
"Pinyon Plain began uranium mining and is now threatening the water of the #Havasupai in their homeland in the Grand Canyon. The mine is now endangering Navajo, #Hopi, Ute, and southwest residents, on the uranium haul route, from the Grand Canyon to the Energy Fuels mill in southeastern Utah.
"The White Mesa Mill is poisoning the water, land, and air of White Mesa Utes in southeastern Utah. It is now bringing in #radioactive waste from Europe. Nuclear waste at the site was transported here from the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada because it was too deadly to leave there. The Nevada site poisoned the ancestral land of #WesternShoshone."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html#WaterIsLife #UraniumMining #IndigenousActivism #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #RenewablesNow #NoMining
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#EffectiveImmediately California Gov #Newsom rescinds #TravelBan on using CA #taxpayer funds to visit more than half the #UnitedStates. In 2016 #California stopped allowing state-sponsored #travel to 4 US states discriminating against #LGBTQ rights, but had since increased #Isolationist #boycott to 26. Law was doing little to change #PublicPolicy elsewhere, but stifled and complicated state school and other government employees from participating in collaborations, conferences and competitions outside California borders. Newsom will direct money to vague #educational #BridgeProject outreach instead ...
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Romania Carries Out Raids as Part of Crypto Tax Evasion Probe - Authorities in Romania have conducted more than a dozen raids against people suspe... - https://news.bitcoin.com/romania-carries-out-raids-as-part-of-crypto-tax-evasion-probe/ #cryptotransactions #cryptocurrencies #cryptocurrency #cryptotraders #taxauthority #transactions #taxevasion #operation #taxagency #taxpayers #proceeds #romanian #taxation #taxpayer #profits #romania #crypto #income #taxes #gains #raids #raid #tax