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  1. RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspace

    "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 💰" arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/

    #Ariane6 #Arianespace

  2. 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

  3. 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
    ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07

  4. #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.

    msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-ad

  5. 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
    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #USpol #trump #IAmDB

  6. 🇵🇹🤖 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. 🙄✨
    duarteocarmo.com/blog/amalia-a #Taxpayer #Spending #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

  7. "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!"

  8. 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.

    simpleflying.com/usaf-mc-130js

  9. @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.

  10. CW: Politics & social security

    @RabBrucesSpider1 @HarriettMB Unfortunately, it's not just the #Tories or #ReformUK - would that it were! We #disabled people could cope with that - we're used to it by now. No, it's #Labour as well, with both the vile #rhetoric & the #policies to go with it. They think we're a "burden" on #society & the #taxpayer, & they despise us!

  11. county wants to build a 60m rec facility, they need to focus on infrastructure and a metered approach, i think some of it is covid money, the growth and tax hikes are hurting long time residents. lots of fields and a pool is going to invest in the people and the community but overall it will likely lose money and be a net rev drag not a big boost; there are safer and more useful investments, they need oversight and a metered rollout, make it a journey not an event #taxpayer money #community visions vs community needs #constituents

  12. Find out what kinds of data banks and other financial institutions collect about you and their intended use by diving into the series What Everybody Knows About You. ⬇️

    lpi.org/ecr6