#Taxpayers

Politics CanadaPoli_Tics
2025-05-25

The Ford government recently released its 2025 budget, its first since getting re­elected for a third term, & once again failed to balance the books, resulting in more borrowing & more debt on the backs of Ontarians. The government projects a $14.6­billion deficit for 202526. The budget also projects an additional deficit of $7.8 billion in 2026­-27 msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories

#Smith: We are bringing an end to the unauthorized wasteful and redundant #IRS direct file program which contradicts #taxpayers' best interests.

2025-05-22

USU: Tax reports on crypto trades nearly doubled in a year

Taxpayers declared about 230 million euros in gains and 30 million euros in losses from cryptocurrency trading.

yle.fi/a/74-20163444

#Taxpayers #cryptocurrency #trading #gains #losses

2025-05-19

So the of a will openly accept a $400M from a country Qatar, the US will spend another $1B+ on it and then it'll become the 's private property? Can there be any bigger or greater ? Or anything more ? is asleep. this now. . stinks.

Deborah SampsonDSDJ3147
2025-05-18

Golf Anyone….it’s on the taxpayers!

“So, the in Loudon County are paying so the prez of the US can play & we’re not being reimbursed for that cost?” Vice Chair & Ashburn Dist Supr. Michael Turner asked, per WUSA9.”

“What if we just didn’t provide the service since we’re not being reimbursed?
Are there some legal obligation that local law enforcement has to reinforce the prez’s golf games?”

apple.news/AOS85445GQbynC0BSn2

Ivette Mirbunnylove403
2025-05-17

A persons worth shouldn’t be defined by the taxes they do or do not make.

Original skeet by: brianamillslmft.bsky.social
give her a follow✔️ if you have a BlueSky🦋account 📲

Skeet written by @brianamillslmft.bsky.social that reads: “Disabled people are worthy of the same rights as anyone else. Yes, even those who can't work or pay taxes. All disabled people matter!”
Politics CanadaPoli_Tics
2025-05-10

Shoppers Drug Mart gouges Ontario taxpayers, billing them $62 Million over 14 months. One of the pharmacists said they were “expected” to perform between 80 and 100 MedsCheck reviews per week during COVID­19, whereas prior to the pandemic they were “applauded” if they performed 25 a week. They also said they were told to hire additional pharmacists to “cold call” patients for the reviews. “I really felt disgusting as a health­care professional" thestar.com/business/shoppers-

KafkaphonyKafkaphony
2025-05-06

The .S. is the biggest program in the country—fully funded by , provides , , , , , and guaranteed — all without turning a . Funny how socialism is fine when it's for .

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-05-04

“‘His knowledge of the works in our collection was extraordinary, and he instantly understood the arc of art history and the way that we’ve deployed the collection to tell that story,’ Mitzevich says.

“He stopped in front of #BluePoles and said ‘Oh, well, this is one of the most important works of the 20th century, and you’ve hung it next to [a work by #Pollock’s wife Lee Krasner], oh and look at the de Kooning in dialogue’. And he was equally fascinated by things that he hadn’t seen before, like #SidneyNolan’s #NedKelly [series].” A)

VS

“In 2016 a new #Liberal senator, a mere stripling of twenty-eight years, had a foolproof idea for getting himself noticed. #JamesPaterson told the media the government should sell #JacksonPollock’s #abstract #expressionist masterpiece, Blue Poles.

“Some people feel like they’ve got a real attachment to Blue Poles, and I understand that,” said Paterson, who had come to parliament from the free-market #InstituteofPublicAffairs. “I don’t think it’s a good enough reason for the Australian government to tie up such a significant amount of #money in a single painting which is hung in a #gallery in #Canberra most of the year, and which most #Australians won’t ever see face to face in their #lifetimes. It’ll only be #worth something to #taxpayers when we #sell it.” B)

This is why we vote. 🗳️

#Art / #Artists / #value / #IntrinsicWorth A) <afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-a> (paywall) ==> / <archive.md/LJZbz> / B) <insidestory.org.au/a-finishing>

Jackson Pollock in a moment of creating his “action” art.A closeup view of Blue Poles, created by Jackson Pollock and acquired for Australia to hang in the National Gallery.A person admires Blue Poles from afar.  As a young Art student I crept right up close to take a look at the brush strokes. And to my surprise, flakes of paint gathered beneath the painting. It looks like you can’t do it now.
Spaceflight 🚀spaceflight@spacey.space
2025-05-02

Let's assume #Europe 🇪🇺 is successful and reaches a cadence of 10 launches per year 😂 with the #Ariane6 rocket. One-tenth of the annual subsidy is $35 million. One-hundredth of the development cost is $40 million.

Therefore, European #taxpayers are subsidizing every launch of #satellites for Jeff #Bezos by roughly $75 million 💰 arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/

#Amazon #Kuiper

The average #American worker gets about a $2,500 bonus each year.
#RepRaskin
has questions, I have answers. $1.3 billion for bonuses? Sounds like we can lower it and save #taxpayers money.

2025-04-30

Garre, representing #Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond (R), told the justices that #CharterSchools have all the hallmarks of #PublicSchools in that they are free, open to all, funded by #taxpayers & #nonsectarian. The OK #Constitution, he said, prohibits teaching #religion as #truth in public schools.

He warned that a ruling in favor of the #Catholic school would “render unconstitutional the federal charter school program” that he said has been a success story in public #education.

#law #SCOTUS

2025-04-29

Facts People Facts - #ElonMusk was a permanent fixture in the early weeks of the administration. But he quickly became a #political liability. His mass #firings and chaotic rehiring of some #federal #workers are now estimated to have cost #taxpayers $135 billion — wiping out most of the $160 billion that #DOGE claims it saved. #government #politics #maga #economy #medicare #medicaid #healthcare #dipomacy #knowledge #expertise #skills

2025-04-24

Elon Musk Pretends He’s Leaving The Job He Supposedly Doesn’t Have To Not Return To The Job He Supposedly Never Left

fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tech

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-04-22

Day 24 cont ⚕️💉💊

“But speaking of gambling, #gambling is a behaviour where #people don’t think of the #consequences. And what this (#Labor) #government has done is gambled the #taxpayers’ money of Australia”

“We understand that the other side has a good heart, that they want to make #medicines cheaper. But to recklessly, recklessly cut the profits of small business owners, the #pharmacies working extremely hard, some of them have told me they’ve gone down to 30-40%. That gambling-like behaviour is simply not on.” — #ScottYung

Piss off Scotty, leave our Pharma alone.

#AusPol / #Medicare / #pharmaceuticals / #PBS / #Liberal / #Bennalong / #LNP / #Nationals / #CCP / #LiberalPartyChineseYouthCouncil / #JohnHoward / #XiongmingXie <theguardian.com/australia-news>

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDLiamOMaraIV
2025-04-21

Someone needs to tell this dumb motherfucker that many of us hold doctorates, have jobs, play sport, go on dates, use toilets, and are fully functional. is a natural neurological variation. It is not caused by . is pushing Nazi lies.

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