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#taxpayers — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #taxpayers, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Arkansas Times: Entergy blows a fuse over mistakenly shared documents revealing who’s paying data center bills. “Explosive revelations in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today show that Google, the Silicon Valley giant building data centers in Little Rock and West Memphis, will pay only about a third of the price tag of its 600-megawatt solar facility in Jefferson County. The documents also […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/arkansas-times-entergy-blows-a-fuse-over-mistakenly-shared-documents-revealing-whos-paying-data-center-bills/
  2. Searchlight New Mexico: Heinrich proposes legislation to make data centers pay for grid infrastructure. “U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., introduced a bill Monday that aims to prevent utility customers from bearing the costs of data center infrastructure. The GRID Savings Act, proposed as Congress nears its summer recess, would make hyperscale companies pay for necessary upgrades to the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/searchlight-new-mexico-heinrich-proposes-legislation-to-make-data-centers-pay-for-grid-infrastructure/
  3. #Landfill Dumped In Early #EisenhowerEra Through Swinging #SanFrancisco 60s And Supposedly Sealed Off In 7😀's is Leaching Into The #PacificOcean

    The site buried under bulldozed boulders at Mussel Rock Beach along the #SanMateo #Seashore gurgles up #garbage including easily read old newspapers from the early 1960s.

    The dreaded #CaliforniaCoastalCommission could hit #DalyCity resident #taxpayers with huge fines, but current denizens of this working class enclave object to being blamed for poor planning by bureaucratic buffoons in decades past, putting #toxic heavy metals and ammonia into ground water as well as the sea itself..

    mercurynews.com/2025/08/26/old

    #BayArea #StupidHumans #GiftLink #SharedLink #PaywallLift

  4. "A new report by the #Australia Institute found #subsidies for #FossiFuel giants in federal and state budgets will soon cost #taxpayers 14 times more than the Disaster Ready Fund."

    “Australian governments are now planning to spend more on exacerbating #ClimateChange through these subsidies than they are on getting ready for #climate #disasters.”

    That does not sound like a smart policy.

    the-pen.co/stop-fossil-fuel-su