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#ESA has publicly confirmed that the European 🇪🇺 governments will need to subsidize each launch with between 32 million and 38 million euros 💶 per flight.

If we amortize the development costs with the ongoing subsidy, #European #taxpayers have put more than 100 million euros 💰 into each launch before the customer pays anything

#LaunchCost #Amazon

#arianespace #ariane6 #esa #european #taxpayers #launchcost

Techdirt [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2026-07-01 · 12:26 UTC

Hey Ezra Klein: Why Did You Stop Talking About Broadband And The Infrastructure Bill?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/01/hey-ezra-klein-why-did-you-stop-talking-about-broadband-and-the-infrastructure-bill/

#spacex #starlink #abundance #bead #broadband #donaldtrump

W1L3NSK1 @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 01:31 UTC

Flock Safety officials, police to talk license plate readers at Fort Wayne City Council - The Journal Gazette

https://www.journalgazette.net/local/local-government/flock-safety-officials-police-to-talk-license-plate-readers-at-fort-wayne-city-council/article_39e8ea14-1330-4f94-aa3e-c9d9c00efe67.html

archive.today: https://archive.is/N6OFt

Concerns have focused on the level of surveillance, how the data will be used, a lack of public visibility to audit how the program is used and what agencies can access the information.

#FortWayne #Flock #CityCouncil #CityOfFortWayne #Public #Privacy #Rights #Surveillance #ALPR #Audit #TaxPayers #PoliceState

#fortwayne #flock #citycouncil #cityoffortwayne #public #privacy

Techdirt [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2026-06-16 · 12:27 UTC

The SpaceX IPO Sends Elon Musk And Trump’s Starlink Cronyism Into The Thermosphere

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/the-spacex-ipo-sends-elon-musk-and-trumps-starlink-cronyism-into-the-thermosphere/

#spacex #starlink #twitter #x #xai #competition

All for Gardening @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 03:55 UTC

In Vancouver, a billionaire developer catches a garden tax break https://www.allforgardening.com/1820089/in-vancouver-a-billionaire-developer-catches-a-garden-tax-break/ #ApprovedProject #BCAssessment #BCHousing #CommunityGarden #DevelopmentLand #DogParks #FederalGovernment #FinancialIncentive #garden #HolbornGroup #LittleMountain #MalaysianBillionaireFamily #ParksAndGardens #PublicAmenity #PublicHousingSite #QueenElizabethPark #redevelopment #scam #TaxBill #TaxBreak #TaxCategory #TaxReclassifications #TaxShortfall #taxpayers #vancouver

#approvedproject #bcassessment #bchousing #communitygarden #developmentland #dogparks

Nonilex @[email protected] · 2026-03-23 · 19:20 UTC

Using #taxpayers’ money to stay dependent on #FossilFuels & continue contributing to #ClimateChange

#Trump Admin to Pay $1 Billion to #Energy Giant to Cancel #WindFarms

In exchange, the French company #TotalEnergies would invest in #oil & natural #gas projects in Texas & elsewhere.

#WastefulSpending #law #ClimateSolutions #WindPower #wind
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/climate/offshore-wind-gas-trump-total.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#taxpayers #fossilfuels #climatechange #trump #energy #windfarms

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-02-18 · 15:57 UTC

#Palantir Pays Zero Federal #IncomeTax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to #Trump Tax Law

by Matthew Gardner, February 17, 2026

"The CEO of Palantir, the tech company known for equipping #ICE with #AITools that hack into people’s phones, recently said he runs 'the first company to be completely #AntiWoke.' This week, we learned that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.

"In its recent earnings call summarizing fiscal year 2025, a Palantir exec crowed that the company’s explosive growth and profitability for the year was 'one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.' But the company neglected to mention one weird trick that also fueled its 2025 growth: this is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.

"Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million.

"While the company used a variety of tax breaks to achieve this, the most obvious is the new tax break enacted by Congress at the behest of President Trump last summer. The 'One #BigBeautifulBill' allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.

"U.S. #taxpayers are paying multiple times for the services provided by Palantir, which the Trump administration finds so valuable. First, we pay the bill for the government contracts signed with the company, for example, the deal signed in April for Palantir to provide ICE with a system to track immigrants. Then we pay again with subsidies provided through the tax code, including the $400 million for the 'research' the company has done to create these innovations in government surveillance.

"It’s not news that helping the Trump administration with its policy goals can be enormously profitable. But it’s important to recognize that Palantir’s recent success has been helped substantially by a far more pedestrian tool: handouts from American taxpayers."

Source:
https://itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-tax-trump-tax-law-ice/

#USPol #WorldPol #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines #AbolishPalantir #NoWar #TaxTheRich #TaxCorporations #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks

#palantir #incometax #trump #ice #aitools #antiwoke

LilMikeSF @[email protected] · 2025-08-26 · 19:08 UTC

#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..

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/26/old-landfill-that-closed-47-years-ago-continues-to-leak-trash-into-pacific-ocean/?share=uthrdriocammrpe2uowc

#BayArea #StupidHumans #GiftLink #SharedLink #PaywallLift

#landfill #eisenhowerera #sanfrancisco #pacificocean #sanmateo #seashore

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-06-26 · 13:57 UTC

This from 2021. And yes, it's still sitting there. The alternatives? Desecrating #YuccaMountain? Polluting the #GreatLakes? Or maybe burying it underneath Congress? But until we figure out how to transport and permanently store nuclear waste, it is being stored on site. And not just in #Maine -- everywhere there was a #NuclearPowerPlant!

Armed Guards Protect Tons Of #NuclearWaste That Maine Can’t Get Rid Of

By Abigail Curtis, BDN
Published July 19, 2021

"In the summertime, the picturesque village of #WiscassetME is infamous for its long lines of people hungry to try a lobster roll at Red’s Eats and cars that crawl through town on the often-clogged #USRouteOne.

"But just a few miles south of downtown is a different kind of roadblock: 550 metric tons of nuclear waste stored on a coastal peninsula at the now-decommissioned #MaineYankee atomic energy plant that have nowhere to go.

"The change in presidential administrations means another chance for the federal government to make good on its promise to remove the waste, so the site can be closed for good. The Biden administration’s Department of Energy seems to be picking up where the Obama administration left off, creating a process for communities to volunteer to host the waste.

" 'What worries me is that there really isn’t any national leadership right now on this stuff. There isn’t an agency that has a mission and has developed a strategy, that has goals and is willing to act on it,' Don Hudson, the chairman of the Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel, said. 'We’re currently in this limbo.'

"That’s a problem because the waste — 1,400 spent nuclear fuel rods housed in 60 cement and steel canisters, plus four canisters of irradiated steel removed from the nuclear reactor when it was taken down — is safe for now, but can’t stay in Wiscasset forever.

"The situation in Wiscasset underscores a thorny issue facing more than 100 communities across the U.S.: close to a hundred thousand tons of nuclear waste that has no place to go.

"Securing these remnants of nuclear energy generation is an ongoing task that requires armed guards around the clock and costs Maine Yankee’s owners some $10 million per year, which is being paid for with money from the government.

"After the government failed to remove the spent fuel, Maine Yankee and the other two decommissioned nuclear power plants in New England — Connecticut Yankee in East Hampton, Connecticut, and Yankee Atomic in Rowe, Massachusetts — took it to court. So far, they have been awarded a total of $575.5 million in damages during four rounds of litigation, money that has been paid out of the U.S. Judgment fund. A fifth round is happening now, and the lawsuits are likely to continue until the fuel is removed.

"All told, the country’s many abandoned nuclear facilities — including Maine Yankee — have cost the federal government billions of dollars, a sum that increases by about $2 million each day, according to Eric Howes, the spokesperson for Maine Yankee and two other decommissioned plants in New England.

" 'All the #taxpayers in the United States are paying for the government’s failure to meet its obligations,' he said.

"But as the years pass, it seems that fewer and fewer people even realize that there are tons of nuclear waste on the secured site behind a chain-link fence on Bailey Point. Hudson and others worry that for many, it’s too easy not to think about it, diminishing the drive to find a better solution.

" 'Nobody ever travels by it. Nobody ever sees it,' Hudson said. 'It’s the classic out of sight, out of mind.' "

https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2021-07-19/armed-guards-protect-tons-of-nuclear-waste-that-maine-cant-get-rid-of

#nuclear #nuclearwaste #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #NuclearWaste #RethinkNotRestart