#taxpayers — Public Fediverse posts

@schnedan regarding the #transparency of #LaunchCost : Arianespace hasn’t publicly disclosed the cost of an #Ariane6 launch https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117130008062227837

European #taxpayers are subsidizing every launch of #satellites for Jeff Bezos by roughly $75 million 💰 https://spacey.space/@spaceflight/114439108543553287

#ESA

@schnedan regarding the #transparency of #LaunchCost : Arianespace hasn’t publicly disclosed the cost of an #Ariane6 launch https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117130008062227837

European #taxpayers are subsidizing every launch of #satellites for Jeff Bezos by roughly $75 million 💰 https://spacey.space/@spaceflight/114439108543553287

#ESA

@schnedan regarding the #transparency of #LaunchCost : Arianespace hasn’t publicly disclosed the cost of an #Ariane6 launch https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117130008062227837

European #taxpayers are subsidizing every launch of #satellites for Jeff Bezos by roughly $75 million 💰 https://spacey.space/@spaceflight/114439108543553287

#ESA

@schnedan regarding the #transparency of #LaunchCost : Arianespace hasn’t publicly disclosed the cost of an #Ariane6 launch https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117130008062227837

European #taxpayers are subsidizing every launch of #satellites for Jeff Bezos by roughly $75 million 💰 https://spacey.space/@spaceflight/114439108543553287

#ESA

@schnedan regarding the #transparency of #LaunchCost : Arianespace hasn’t publicly disclosed the cost of an #Ariane6 launch https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117130008062227837

European #taxpayers are subsidizing every launch of #satellites for Jeff Bezos by roughly $75 million 💰 https://spacey.space/@spaceflight/114439108543553287

#ESA

🏷️ #IRS #ICE #Law #Courts #taxpayers #Data #Privacy

🔗 https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/irss-data-sharing-with-ice-violated-law-appeals-court-rules-f0403f62?st=LY56YE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“I would certainly expect them to compete a project of this size & complexity,” said Anthony Costa, a former GSA official who oversaw complex government real estate projects during a career that spanned four presidential admins.

The estimated #EastWing construction cost has tripled since last July, when the project was first announced, with [at least] half expected to come from #taxpayers, WaPo previously reported.

#Trump #law #ballroom #TaxPayersMoney #GovernmentWaste #oversight

Competitive bidding is generally required at most federal agencies. Experts said the Executive Residence is exempt from those rules, & the president has legal authority to hire companies of his choosing to make changes to the executive mansion & the surrounding grounds. Those experts said soliciting bids would have ensured the best price for #taxpayers, especially given the size & cost of the #EastWing project.

#Trump #law #ballroom #TaxPayersMoney #GovernmentWaste #oversight #architecture

Canadians not confident public service is prepared for the future
#Canada #Politics #PublicService #Government #Economy #PublicPolicy #MarkCarney #StateCapacity #PublicTrust #CivilService #Governance #Taxpayers #Trade #Leadership #Federal #Populism
https://the-14.com/canadians-not-confident-public-service-is-prepared-for-the-future/

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/12/moda-center-renovation-public-financing-trail-blazers/

#Extortion #Texas #Billionaires #Portland #PublicFunds #NBA #Mexico #Tax #Taxpayers #TaxDollars #EatTheRich #Sports #Basketball #ProfessionalSports #Election #Vote #Affordability #Resist #Protest #Boycott #Nike #PhilKnight #Dundon #Progressives #Citizens #WeThePeople #Franchise #NC #NorthCarolina #Oregon #TrailBlazers #TinaKotek #KeithWilson #Mayor #Governor #MultnomahCounty #PayForPerformance (1/3)

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/12/moda-center-renovation-public-financing-trail-blazers/

#Extortion #Texas #Billionaires #Portland #PublicFunds #NBA #Mexico #Tax #Taxpayers #TaxDollars #EatTheRich #Sports #Basketball #ProfessionalSports #Election #Vote #Affordability #Resist #Protest #Boycott #Nike #PhilKnight #Dundon #Progressives #Citizens #WeThePeople #Franchise #NC #NorthCarolina #Oregon #TrailBlazers #TinaKotek #KeithWilson #Mayor #Governor #MultnomahCounty #PayForPerformance (1/3)

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/12/moda-center-renovation-public-financing-trail-blazers/

#Extortion #Texas #Billionaires #Portland #PublicFunds #NBA #Mexico #Tax #Taxpayers #TaxDollars #EatTheRich #Sports #Basketball #ProfessionalSports #Election #Vote #Affordability #Resist #Protest #Boycott #Nike #PhilKnight #Dundon #Progressives #Citizens #WeThePeople #Franchise #NC #NorthCarolina #Oregon #TrailBlazers #TinaKotek #KeithWilson #Mayor #Governor #MultnomahCounty #PayForPerformance (1/3)

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/12/moda-center-renovation-public-financing-trail-blazers/

#Extortion #Texas #Billionaires #Portland #PublicFunds #NBA #Mexico #Tax #Taxpayers #TaxDollars #EatTheRich #Sports #Basketball #ProfessionalSports #Election #Vote #Affordability #Resist #Protest #Boycott #Nike #PhilKnight #Dundon #Progressives #Citizens #WeThePeople #Franchise #NC #NorthCarolina #Oregon #TrailBlazers #TinaKotek #KeithWilson #Mayor #Governor #MultnomahCounty #PayForPerformance (1/3)

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/12/moda-center-renovation-public-financing-trail-blazers/

#Extortion #Texas #Billionaires #Portland #PublicFunds #NBA #Mexico #Tax #Taxpayers #TaxDollars #EatTheRich #Sports #Basketball #ProfessionalSports #Election #Vote #Affordability #Resist #Protest #Boycott #Nike #PhilKnight #Dundon #Progressives #Citizens #WeThePeople #Franchise #NC #NorthCarolina #Oregon #TrailBlazers #TinaKotek #KeithWilson #Mayor #Governor #MultnomahCounty #PayForPerformance (1/3)

@memeorandum So much for the Party of fiscal responsibility!

#GOP #Republicans #FiscalResponsibility #Taxes #Waste #Immigration #ICE #USPol #USPolitics #Politics #USA #America #Taxpayers #DOGE #CBP #Congress #Activism #Protest #Resist #Government #Shutdown #tRump #Misappropriation #Law #Justice #DueProcess #Constitution #HumanRights #Fascism #Racism #Hate #Crime #Illegal #Nazi #ConcentrationCamps #ForProfitPrisons #Budget #Deficit #Spending

#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

American #taxpayers (AKA SUCKERS) are footing the bill to pay #J6 #terrorists #thugs who play #DHS #ICE Expensive Hi-Tech MallCop

#RepublicansSuck
#RepublicansDidThis
#GOP

Wanna talk about a waste of money? Look no further than the #Republican Party

He's a sociopath, a fascist, and a thief.

ask your friends and family "Did you vote for Elon?"

#uspol #USPolitics #TaxPayers #elon #musk #elonmusk #FascistTakover

Unelected Bureaucrat Elon Musk is creating massive unemployment by killing gov't services, so he can funnel taxpayer $$$ into the pockets of Billionaires including most importantly himself.

#uspol #USPolitics #TaxPayers #elon #musk #elonmusk #FascistTakover

#Taxpayers #LetTheSunshineIn : U.S. #DOE grant expected to fund majority of $2.2 billion complex for #Qcells (division of #SouthKorean #Hanwha Group) to build a solar plant in #Georgia.

President Joe #Biden’s #InflationReductionAct, gives tax credits on #AmericanMade solar gear, plus allows manufacturers to earn #incentives for every unit of #polysilicon they refine in every wafer, cell and module they make in #USA.

A US Dept of #Energy spokesman said “The domestic demand for #solar modules in 2026 is expected to be around 50 #gigawatts. We’re expecting to produce about 40 gigawatts in 2026, So that means 80% of the (#solarpower) modules that we deploy in the United States in 2026 is expected to be domestic.”

https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/georgia-news/us-government-will-loan-1-45-billion-to-help-a-south-korean-firm-build-a-solar-plant-in-georgia/

Despite #BCNDP saying they’ve stopped #renovictions in #BritishColumbia they’re still very much happening. After a ruling from the Residential Tenancy Branch #RTB dozens of #Esquimalt #seniors are being kicked out in four months for the new owners to do renovations.

Many of the #renters being displaced are #LowIncome, either on #disability or a #FixedPension. As a result, most of them can’t afford market rent, and fear they could be homeless.

Because the new owner is doing renovations, not a total demolition, Esquimalt’s #Tenant Assistance Policy isn’t triggered. Any stronger policy is the #BCgovernment jurisdiction.

“It’s time for the provincial government to actually stop this from happening. If they really want to stop renovictions, then they need to change the laws,” said Douglas King, executive director of #TogetherAgainstPovertySociety.

King says what’s needed is a BC-wide #TenantAssistance #policy to better #ProtectTenants facing #displacement, but also to prevent #taxpayers from paying for the consequences down the line.

https://www-cheknews-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cheknews.ca/rtb-approves-esquimalt-renoviction-tenants-call-on-province-for-stronger-safety-net-1214699

#BCpoli #BChousingCrisis #RentersRights #YYJpoli #PovertyIsNotACrime #StopRenovictions #HousingRights #MarginalizedRenters #BCNewDeathParty #Housing #RentalProperties #YYJHousing #BCHousing #HumanRights #SocialInjustice

@thetyee @afh Predicted this would happen, early last year. This is irresponsible as hell. #RCMPCIRG should be #disbanded because they're NOT real #LawEnforcement - they're #CorporateMercenaries & they break laws with no #accountability !

Please dig in further & expose every politician who supported giving #incompetent & #violent #BadgedCriminals millions more of our #public #taxpayers monies.

#NewDeathParty #NoIntegrity #NoHonour #unethical #CrimesAgainstHumanity #BCNDP #VoteOutBCNDP