#taxpayers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #taxpayers, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.fogolf.com/1383255/trumps-golf-grift-revealed-in-report-on-hot-dog-ritual-at-his-club/ Trump’s Golf ‘Grift’ Revealed In Report On Hot Dog Ritual At His Club #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #Golf #SCAM #SecretService #taxpayers #trump #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfing
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https://www.fogolf.com/1383255/trumps-golf-grift-revealed-in-report-on-hot-dog-ritual-at-his-club/ Trump’s Golf ‘Grift’ Revealed In Report On Hot Dog Ritual At His Club #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #Golf #SCAM #SecretService #taxpayers #trump #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfing
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🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬?
#ai #government #usgovernment #aidatacenters #datacenters #OpenAI #Anthropic #Meta #Alphabet #SpaceX #Microsoft #MANGOS #pif #saudi #saudiarabia #china #norway #Oljefondet #taxpayers #Nationalization #Communism #Capitalist #entrepreneur
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Hey Ezra Klein: Why Did You Stop Talking About Broadband And The Infrastructure Bill?
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"Will There Be A Tax Revolt?" Isn’t a question I expected to read in Borowitz’s satire blog.
Donald J. Trump aka #Metamucilini is forcing #taxpayers to pay for things they despise: masked goons terrorizing our cities, a gold ballroom fit for a Mafioso, and the stupidest war in American history.
We’re about to mark the 250th anniversary of an uprising that was sparked by, among other things, taxation without representation. So it’s worth asking: could we be on the brink of a tax revolt? And what would it achieve?
These questions aren’t the kooky musings of a fife-blowing Battle of Bunker Hill reenactor. There was, in fact, a major tax revolt in the not-so-distant past—and it succeeded in bringing down a government.
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/will-there-be-a-tax-revolt-7a7
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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
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Every assassination attempt = new budget request. 3rd attempt = vanity ballroom. No empire pays debts before selling "security." #Corruption #SecurityTheater #Assassination #LindseyGraham #USPolitics #DebtCrisis #VanityProject #Congress #TaxPayers https://twp.ai/9OUm8j
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Every assassination attempt = new budget request. 3rd attempt = vanity ballroom. No empire pays debts before selling "security." #Corruption #SecurityTheater #Assassination #LindseyGraham #USPolitics #DebtCrisis #VanityProject #Congress #TaxPayers https://twp.ai/9OUm8j
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Every assassination attempt = new budget request. 3rd attempt = vanity ballroom. No empire pays debts before selling "security." #Corruption #SecurityTheater #Assassination #LindseyGraham #USPolitics #DebtCrisis #VanityProject #Congress #TaxPayers
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Every assassination attempt = new budget request. 3rd attempt = vanity ballroom. No empire pays debts before selling "security." #Corruption #SecurityTheater #Assassination #LindseyGraham #USPolitics #DebtCrisis #VanityProject #Congress #TaxPayers
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https://www.fogolf.com/1075503/donald-trump-slammed-for-his-most-out-of-touch-move-yet/ Donald Trump slammed for his most ‘out of touch move’ yet #DonaldTrump #GolfBuggy #GolfCourse #Kai #KaiMadisonTrump #KaiTrump #KaiMadisonTrump #KaiTrump #Madison #OutOfTouch #RichFriends #TaxPayers #taxes #ToneDeaf #trump
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#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..
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The level of #hostility towards #regular #ordinary #taxpayers is #unbelievable! Why allow a #good program to continue. #GOP is an #evil bunch of #thugs, led by the #felon in the #WhiteHouse. All #MAGA are anti-American.
https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-tax-returns-free-trump-4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab
#opposeGOP #OpposeFascism #defeatGOP #defendDemocracy #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #CriminalAdministration #IRS #tax #government #USPolitics
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#Ecotricity founder, #DaleVince, says:
"Here's a worthwhile list to be on. The top 100 #taxpayers in Britain (I'm 81 apparently). #Taxes built our #economy, they pay for #education, #transport, #health and so much more."https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/money/article/tax-list-uk-100-biggest-taxpayers-jx6ldh5hd
https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/uks-top-10-taxpayers-revealed-30858262
#tax #uktax #taxation #wealthtax #taxtherich #taxthewealthy #taxisgood #taxingtherich #taxpayer #uktaxpayers #taxationuk #ukpolitics #ukeconomy #politics #economy #unitedkingdom #uk #government #ukgovernment #britishgovernment
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#Sununu #nh #gop #vote #voter #fraud
New Hampshire passes #Trump #MAGA idiotic #hysterical #fearmongering bullshit law which costs NH #Taxpayers money
Not one recorded case of a non-citizen ever recorded in New Hampshire commiting vote fraud - correct me if I'm wrong. Not One.
Lots of #Republicans caught voting twice or jamming phone lines, though. Fancy. That.
Flush The Granite State clean of these losers. Flush twice. It's a long way to Mar-a-Lago.
https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2024/09/12/sununu-definitely-leaning-towards-signing-voter-id-law/
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#DiabloCanyon #NuclearPowerPlant brings #profits for PG&E, deadly risk for residents [and the #environment]
Tina Landis
August 19, 2024"Despite opposition from residents and #environmental organizations, California legislators passed #SenateBill846 in 2022 to extend the life of the dangerous, aging Diablo Canyon #nuclear facility.
"Located on the Central Coast surrounded by several #fault lines, one has to question why a nuclear facility was placed in an #earthquake zone to begin with, much less allowing it to continue to operate well past its retirement date. The world witnessed what can happen to a coastal nuclear facility in an earthquake zone when the 2011 #Fukushima disaster triggered a meltdown that displaced nearly half a million residents, with vast amounts of #RadioactiveWater still being released into the ocean today.
"As long as Diablo Canyon remains open, Californians live with the constant risk of suffering the same type of disaster.
"From its inception, Diablo Canyon had little public support. Protests occurred regularly during its construction, and thousands were arrested for #CivilDisobedience actions in 1981.
"In the 1970s and 1980s, California’s three largest utilities spent billions of dollars building dangerous and costly nuclear plants like Diablo Canyon, which resulted in skyrocketing rates for customers. Big industry fought back against these increased energy costs, which resulted in deregulation bills consisting of multi-billion dollar #bailouts to the state’s utility companies to cover their costly investments in nuclear.
"Today, the last remaining nuclear plant operating in the state is still draining billions in funds that could be used for safe, #renewable energy development. To keep Diablo Canyon running 5 years past its retirement date is expected to cost $8 billion to $12 billion. A federal aid package of $1.1 billion will contribute to some of those costs – meaning federal #taxpayers’ money – while the remaining billions will be passed on to #California #ratepayers.
"Despite being run by PG&E and only generating power for its territory, customers of #SouthernCaliforniaEdison and #SanDiegoGasAndElectric will help cover the remaining costs of the Diablo extension. Edison bills will increase by around $1.25 a month and SDG&E by 87 cents a month, while PG&E customers are expected to chip in $2.07 a month – and that’s just for the first year. Critics warn that costs are likely to increase in coming years to keep the plant running, and that’s on top of already skyrocketing PG&E rates that have doubled over the last decade. And if PG&E collects more funds than are needed for Diablo’s operations, they get to keep it!
"In 2022, when legislators pushed this through #SB846, the excuse of energy shortages was used due to pandemic-related supply chain issues and massive #wildfires. But today, there is plenty of energy being produced with increased #solar and #battery storage capacity that has kept the lights on even during this summer’s unprecedented heat waves driving up demand. The California Public Utility Commission’s own reporting shows that an additional 18,500 megawatts of new resources were added to the grid between 2020 and 2024, which is enough to power around 14 million homes. Another 11,000 megawatts will be added by 2028.
"Nuclear has the third highest lifecycle emissions of all energy sources after scrubbed #coal fired plants and natural gas – meaning it is far from being zero-emission. It also creates the unresolved issue of the #RadioactiveWaste which remains dangerous for tens of thousands to millions of years.
"Keeping the Diablo facility running will only hold back further development of safe and truly low-carbon, low cost renewable sources like solar and #wind energy.
"So why isn’t Diablo Canyon being decommissioned? The short answer is that #capitalism must ensure continued profits for the #InvestorClass.
"SB 846 authorized Diablo’s extension through 2030, and gave PG&E a $1.4 billion loan for the for-profit utility to facilitate the plant’s extension. #GovernorNewsom facilitated another transfer of taxpayer dollars to PG&E through an additional $400 million loan from the state’s general fund, included in the recent budget deal. Critics warn that these 'loans' will never be repaid, meaning residents will be fully subsidizing the Diablo extension – from federal and state tax dollars to our utility fees.
"But there is a way out. SB 846 allows the #CPUC to retire the plant earlier than 2030 if sufficient levels of new renewable zero-carbon energy resources exist, are interconnected, and meet demand, which is the case.
"CPUC has a long track record of serving PG&E’s interests, so intervention by the commission is unlikely. One example of many that demonstrates their close relationship: CPUC is not requiring PG&E to show how much of our utility bill actually goes to the Diablo extension, but instead lumps the cost in with 'public purpose programs,' making it impossible to determine.
"While communities are demanding an early shutdown of Diablo, PG&E is currently applying for a 20-year license renewal from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [#NRC] for the facility, which is expected to be approved. This would mean customers will foot the bill to keep this dangerous nuclear facility running through 2045, far beyond the original expiration dates of 2024 and 2025.
"CPUC has proven their unwavering support time and again for PG&E’s monopoly control over the state’s energy system at the expense of residents’ safety and affordable rates. The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant is just another mechanism to squeeze ratepayers and line the pockets of shareholders who live far away from the dangers posed by this aging facility. Only a public takeover of this #corrupt utility can win clean, safe and affordable energy for all."
#PGAndE #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearCorruption #NuclearBailouts #RenewablesNow #NoNukes
#DiabloCanyonNuclearPlant
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Florida's taxpayers wouldn't know about wannabe-sun king Con DeSantis's travel expenses, if it weren't for Tennessee's Open Records Request option.
"Seven agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), traveling in four different SUVs apparently rented by the state at our expense, squired DeSantis to a small campaign event in Tennessee on Tuesday."
Why wouldn't Floridians know as should be normal? Because his majesty ConDeSanting made his personal "lawmakers" enact a law, that declares all his travel records — even retroactively — to be secret.
Fraudulent Unfreedom of Information à la DeSantis & his parliamentary accomplices, to the disadvantage of Florida's taxpayers.https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/07/29/taxpayers-will-pay-dearly-for-desantis-bumpy-excursions-steve-bousquet/
#RuleOfLaw #Florida #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #Taxpayers #ConDeSantis #DeSantis #RonDeGriftis #ConMan #Embezzlement #ObstructionOfJustice #PerversionOfJustice #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice #Corruption #SelfEnrichment