#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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https://www.europesays.com/people/216103/ Ali: Trump’s vanity arch is coming and it’s no triumph #arc #Arch #ArlingtonCemetery #BeautifulMonument #Burgum #ConstructionCrew #DonaldTrump #EnglishSpeakingWorld #GreatTriumphalArch #History #LincolnMemorial #Project #taxpayer #Trump #VanityArch #year
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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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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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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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Someone is finally starting to notice the amount of the time POTUS is spending outside of Washington DC and what it is costing taxpayers.... according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff ... “We’ve already heard some information where he may be spending more time here than in Washington,”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/trump-golf-trips #golf #POTUS #Florida #PalmBeachCounty #taxpayer #fore -
Forgive me for being Devil's Advocate for a moment...
The major difference between these cases is whether a given #public #service benefits the public as a whole (not "each individual separately, but all of them") or if they benefit the #individual(s).
Military or police spending? That's benefiting #society as a whole - you can't really say "Hey, Fred used a whole lot of police last year and cost me $X" (though some people try). It's even dafter in the military case.
But the post office ... well, if Fred sells and sends out 10,000 #tchotchkes at public #expense, he individually is solely benefiting from that, and the rest of us are picking up the tab. Or if some fundamentalist religious group decides to send "Chick tracts" to every household in Canada, should the #taxpayer really be picking up the #millions of dollars that those bible-thumpers cost everyone?
It's a tricky issue; there is no good solution.
But it pisses me off that they still aren't doing the *obvious* stuff to save money. For many years it's been bloody #obvious that eliminating legacy home delivery, installing community mailboxes for those just like every house built since the mid-80s, would save huge amounts of money.
And they still haven't done it, because the #politicians are afraid it'll cost them a few #seniors' votes.
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#Ohio offers a new way to use public money for #ChristianSchools. Opponents say it’s unconstitutional
By JULIE CARR SMYTH
Updated 12:09 AM EST, November 17, 2024COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — "Around the country, advocates for Christian education have been finding legal ways to tap #taxpayer money used more typically for #PublicSchools. One new approach in Ohio is benefiting schools tied to a burgeoning #conservative political group and facing objections from defenders of the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.
"In President-elect Donald #Trump, backers of school choice have gained an ally in their efforts to share taxpayer money with families to pay for things like private school tuition. Trump has cast school choice as a way to counter what he calls leftist indoctrination in public classrooms and is expected to seek a boost for the movement at the federal level.
"The Ohio case shows how governments can push the envelope to funnel money to private schools.
"The state has put a small part of its budget surplus toward competitive grants for expanding and renovating #ReligiousSchools. Most of the winning construction projects are associated with the #CenterForChristianVirtue, an Ohio-based advocacy group that’s seen its revenues balloon amid the state’s push to expand religious educational options. "
Read more:https://apnews.com/article/christian-private-school-choice-ohio-3c49fe1477a678377ede32e5de5f6db3
#ChristoFascism #ChristianCoalition
#ChristianNationalism
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#Republican #lawmaker #gloats after #Texas #university ends #LGBTQstudies #program
“I want to end #taxpayer-#funded leftist #propaganda in every single one of our #publicinstitutions of #higher #learning.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-gloats-lgbtq-studies-texas-ended
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#RedStates #underfire for using #taxpayer #money pushing #religion in #PublicSchools
#Civilrights #groups #investigating #costs of placing #Trump #Bibles in #Oklahoma #schools, #Ohio's spending on #construction for #private #religiousschools
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://19thnews.org/2024/10/ohio-oklahoma-spending-church-state-religion-schools/#Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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#Florida #Doctors describe #Dystopic #Horrors as #Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis tries to tank pro-#Abortion #Measure.
DeSantis #deploys #Taxpayer #funds to keep his six-week #abortionban, as #Florida #patients are #denied #cancer #treatments and #care to end #ectopic #pregnancies.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
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#Republicans are fighting to be able to #discriminate against #LGBTQstudents in colleges and #university. Think about that. These people are spending valuable time, and #taxpayer money to establish and preserve their ability to discriminate against, and make the #college experience of #LGBTQ students a living hell. And our ethically compromised #SupremeCourt is happy to help them achieve their goal. Remember this in November.
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The #Oklahoma SC blocked on Tues what would have been the nation’s first #religious charter #school, delivering a setback to a #conservative movement that has increasingly fought for #public dollars to go toward religious #education.
The case is likely to be appealed, potentially pushing it toward #SCOTUS, whose conservative majority has broadly embraced the role of #religion in public life & signaled an openness to directing #taxpayer money to #ReligiousSchools.
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#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 -
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