#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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FL grand jury report just leaked:
>"These funds were #misappropriated as part of a sophisticated scheme to fund #political activities"
>Centene #SettlementMoney was for adults', children's #healthcare in FL
>FL AG #Uthmeier's PAC got most of the $10M instead
>Former FL AG #Moody signed the agreement "without conducting #DueDiligence to ensure proper #appropriation of #taxpayer funds"
BUT SOMEHOW NOBODY IS BEING CHARGED
...Fascists insisting their theft is legal. So, new?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/florida-grand-jury-desantis-administration-misappropriated-funds-medicaid -
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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RE: https://spacey.space/@spaceflight/117112248735713238
13 years ago, #Arianespace considered #reusability ♻️ a "dream". Nowadays they are still sleeping 😴💤 while they receive funding from #ESA
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116935801713344128
"So basically the developers of a dead horse who shunned reusability ♻️ still need more tax payers’ money to make their business case work. Even ‘commercial’ launches such as for the #Amazon constellation are reported to be costing the #taxpayer 32 mil. per launch*"
* "#European taxpayers are subsidizing every launch of satellites for Jeff Bezos by roughly $75 million 💰" https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/oops-it-looks-like-the-ariane-6-rocket-may-not-offer-europe-any-launch-savings/#page-2
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I think my takeaway from this article is that #Trump is #spending about $89k/second of #US #Taxpayer money.
https://azfreenews.com/2026/07/u-s-national-debt-reaches-39-4-trillion-jec-reports/
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The #Trump admin, which has systematically rolled back #firearms #regulations since returning to office, has also gutted federal #GunViolence prevention efforts, slashing #funding for programs & #research & even SUPPRESSING #taxpayer-funded reports aimed at reducing #gun injuries & deaths.
#law #guns #idiocracy #MassShootings #SchoolShootings #PublicHealth
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The most-common jobs in Ohio don’t pay enough to meet expenses, report says
Ohio jobs pay so poorly than median wages for 84.5% won’t cover the cost of living if that worker is the sole earner in a family of three.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithc...
#affordability #business #economy #employment #low-wages #ohio-poverty-rate #policy-matters-ohio #poverty #small-businesses #taxpayer-money #workers
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/03/the-most-common-jobs-in-ohio-dont-pay-enough-to-meet-expenses-report-says/ -
#Drumpf admin rewarding #energy contractors with massive #taxpayer payouts to drop #windmill projects.
#Drumpf admin vowed on Wednesday to pay $765 million to a power project developer #Invenergy to abandon planned #windmill projects off the coastal states of New York, #California and #Maine and convert resources to developing natural gas power plants in five landlocked Midwest states.
Seven U.S. states sued the admin this month over a similar $800 million payment to #TotalEnergies TTEF.PA to cancel an east coast offshore wind project. The state AG's suing the #ExecBranch allege payments are not proper #USA govt process and illegally misuse fund$ reserved for legal settlements when there was no actual #litigation.
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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/ -
🇵🇹🤖 Oh look, another "groundbreaking" #language #model that only cost taxpayers 5.5 million Euros. Clearly, #Portugal will soon dominate the world of #LLMs, because nothing says cutting-edge like a report that's so riveting you can't even finish the sentence before running out of steam. 🙄✨
https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/amalia-and-the-future-of-european-portuguese-llms #Taxpayer #Spending #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Wabag #Catholic diocese to celebrate priesthood ordination -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#4#Iran hangs 3 people over involvement in anti-government -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#IranEric Swalwell Sent #Women #Videos of Him Masturbating -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#10#Taxpayer funding to pay state legal claims tops $20M -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#4#Crypto Week Ahead -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#42View all news from Capitals in the World https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-capitals-of-world.html
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HR 6495 (RFS) - #Taxpayer Notification -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/news.html#12#BatonRouge #Police searching for 3 people connected -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#BatonRouge#Walmart Just Dropped 4 #NewGreat Value Sodas—and They’re -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#HongKong#Spotify Adds Green Checkmark to Fight #AI #Music Personas -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#17Centrist #Democrats beef up affordability message -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#NewDelhiView all news from Ireland https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-ireland.html
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"The #school the #government provides is terrible! We should give them more #taxpayer money! #schoolchoice is terrible!"
"The #police service the government provides is terrible! We should give them less taxpayer money or even #defund them...THAT will surely improve the quality!"
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#usa #israel #palestine #lebanon #iran #syria : #war / #militaryaid / #costsofwar / #taxpayer
„The Trump administration expects U.S. taxpayers to fund not only its own military adventurism but Israel’s as well.“
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"Even #war is #corrupt " #jacquefresco https://www.golem.de/news/digitalfunk-debakel-bundeswehr-zahlt-zwei-milliarden-fuer-untaugliche-technik-2604-207266.html #german #military wastes 2 billion #taxpayer #money on unusable #radio #systems but yes sure we need cuts to #healthcare to finance this #madness
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The cost of our all hands on deck heroic rescue of the US service man trapped in #Iran looks to be well over $250 million dollars, and if you include the first lost #aircraft, as well as those lost in the rescue, it could be far more.
A random value estimate of the US #AirForce’s MC-130Js left destroyed In Iran Is around $100 Million each....Rather than risk capture by Iranian forces, the #Pentagon made the decision to destroy multiple US aircraft in place.
The cost of smaller aircraft left smoldering on the makeshift desert airfield in Iraq estimate to be about $2 million each...
#CBS reported a congressional briefing where one official called it a “fair guess” that the daily #USA #taxpayer cost of #DJT military "intervention" in Iraq is costing well over $1.5 billion.
https://simpleflying.com/usaf-mc-130js-destroyed-iran-over-100-million-each-special-ops/
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@riggbeck @MichaelEMann @ZLabe @RARohde @rahmstorf @davidho @GeraldKutney #TotalEnergies is basically a #fossilfuel company, & I'm quite sure they wouldn't mind making money out of the #American #taxpayer in the least, nor will they be in any way averse to exploiting Donald Trump's extraordinary allergy to any form of #renewableenergy. Their agreeing to the contract is an exercise in cynicism.