#taxpayer — Public Fediverse posts
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#Ariane's $96 million launch price, although apparently competitive with #SpaceX's, actually masks 🕵️ a much higher #LaunchCost, made affordable only through subsidies 💰 https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/05/02/europe-still-cant-compete-with-spacex-launch-price/
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Weird idea to stop #waste, #fraud, and, #abuse of #taxpayer #money.
If a #corporation's #employees qualify for #government #assistance, the corporation is required to #reimburse the assistance #program for #benefits disbursed, plus an additional percentage to cover the #cost of overhead and collection of money owed.
This would apply to employees working 30+ hours/week or who work any number of hours while holding multiple jobs.
I love my neighbors, but my #tax dollars should not be subsidizing #corporate #profit.
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Navigating the Big #Tech Learning Curve
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#13#BadBunny's #Historic Halftime Show Spikes
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/religon.html#2MoS Margherita meets #Fiji Minister Esrom Immanuel;
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#3Pritzker’s “Blind” Trust and $20B in #Taxpayer Contracts
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#22#Governors Won’t Hold #Trump Meeting
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#31#Macron wants 'European approach' in dialogue with #Putin
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/ireland.html#RTÉ -
The only ones who truly benefit from the #WarMachine are #Corporations! And this is further proof! My uncle was in the US Army and when he was discharged, he could fix just about anything electro-mechanical! But nooooo... We can't have folks fixing stuff themselves -- just buy new ones and waste #taxpayer money!
Congress Quietly Kills Military “#RightToRepair,” Allowing #Corporations to Cash In on *Fixing* Broken Products
Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.
by Matt Sledge, December 9 2025
"The idea of a 'right to repair' — a requirement that companies facilitate consumers’ #repairs, #maintenance, and modification of products — is extremely popular, even winning broad, bipartisan support in Congress. That could not, however, save it from the #MilitaryIndustrial complex.
"#Lobbyists succeeded in killing part of the National Defense Authorization Act [#NDAA] that would have given service members the right to fix their equipment in the field without having to worry about military suppliers’ intellectual property.
"The decision to kill the popular proposal was made public Sunday after a closed-door conference of top congressional officials, including defense committee chairs, along with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
"Those meetings were secret, but consumer advocates say they have a pretty good idea of what happened.
" 'It’s pretty clear that defense contractors opposed the right-to-repair provisions, and they pressed hard to have them stripped out of the final bill,' said Isaac Bowers, the federal legislative director at #USPIRG. 'All we can say is that #DefenseContractors have a lot of influence on Capitol Hill.'
"The idea had drawn bipartisan support in both the House and Senate, which each passed their own versions of the proposal.
"Under one version, co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mt., defense companies would have been required to supply the information needed for repairs — such as technical data, maintenance manuals, engineering drawings, and lists of replacement parts — as a condition of Pentagon contracts.
"The idea was that no service member would ever be left waiting on a contractor to fly in from Norway to repair a simple part — which once happened — or, in another real-life scenario, told by the manufacturer to buy a new CT scanner in a combat zone because one malfunctioned.
"Instead of worrying about voiding a warranty, military personnel in the field could use a 3D printer or elbow grease to fix a part.
" 'The military is a can-do operation,' Bowers said. 'Service members can and should be able to repair their own equipment, and this will save costs if they can do it upfront and on time and on their schedule.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/09/congress-military-ndaa-right-to-repair/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/54Nro#EndlessWar #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #USInvasions #USPol #ContractorProfiteering #LockheedMartin #Boeing #NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct
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The fate of the #DirectFile program, the #free electronic #tax return filing system developed during President #Biden’s #Democratic admin, is also unclear. #Republican lawmakers & commercial tax preparation companies had complained it was a waste of #taxpayer money because free filing programs already exist, although they are hard to use. #BillyLong said during his confirmation hearing that it would be one of the first programs that come up for discussion if he were confirmed.
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#BillyLong will take over an #IRS undergoing massive change, including #layoffs & voluntary retirements of tens of thousands of workers & accusations that then-#Trump adviser #ElonMusk’s #DOGE mishandled sensitive #taxpayer #data. Unions & advocacy organizations have sued to block DOGE’s access to the #information.
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#Transphobic #Republican Sen. #TommyTuberville #accuses #NIH #researchers of #withholding #research on #pubertyblockers
The letter Tuberville signed says the senators “oppose #taxpayer #funding going toward #gender #transition #interventions for #minors.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Alabama #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
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German 🇩🇪 rocket start-up #RocketFactory Augsburg last week described #Ariane6 as “overpriced” 💰, saying its development “at the #taxpayer’s expense has shown that something has to change” https://www.ft.com/content/2abdea1a-d985-4f25-90ee-af74524b736f
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The proposed school, St. Isidore of Seville #Catholic Virtual School, was pitched as an online #CatholicSchool for students in rural areas & throughout the state of #Oklahoma, w/ #religious instruction woven throughout the #curriculum.
But instead of operating as a #PrivateSchool w/ #families paying tuition, St.Isidore applied for status as a #CharterSchool, a type of #PublicSchool that is financed by #taxpayer dollars, but run independently.
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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