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House Republicans vote to OVERTURN Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan (why should taxpayers be forced to foot the cost for making the banksters whole on non-performing loans they made to Biden-supporting special snowflake deadbeats?)

May 25, 2023 9:27 am

House Republicans passed a resolution that would overturn President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan on Wednesday. The resolution, brought forth by Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., passed 218 to 203 – with two Democrats joining Republicans: Rep. Jared Golden, Maine, and …

Rhode Island Governor Signs Bill Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Abortions Through Medicaid

May 20, 2023 9:38 pm

Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee, a Democrat, has signed legislation forcing taxpayers to cover the cost of abortions for state officials and people on Medicaid. The bill passed the House of Representatives on April 27 with a 49-24 vote. The …

Get Woke Go Broke…then The Taxpayers Will Bail You Out

March 15, 2023 3:55 pmMarch 14, 2023 11:54 pm

From someone I know who worked at Signature Bank for several years: "The Management Team was basically like the show, the Office. They'd waste money on things like producing parody videos." — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) March 13, 2023 Yesterday, …

Congress Gifts Taxpayers More Debt

December 29, 2022 8:41 am

Guest post by Stefan Gleason from Monetary Metals: Ahead of the Christmas holiday, Congress gave taxpayers the gift of a 4,155-page, pork-laden $1.7 trillion spending bill. It will add to the ballooning $31.4 trillion national debt and hasten the country’s …

IRS Admits To Accidentally Releasing Private Data Of About 112,000 Taxpayers

December 19, 2022 10:49 am

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mistakenly released the private data of roughly 112,000 taxpayers in September and again in late November, the agency disclosed Thursday. An IRS programming error in September caused the release of 112,000 individual 990-T forms, a …

PPP fraud was the biggest fleecing of US taxpayers in history (while our captured, see-no-evil DoJ turned a blind eye)

December 16, 2022 5:06 pm

https://t.co/HzsWN6kUrE — spacecat (@2salt2furious) December 15, 2022 h/t Boo_Randy

Polish taxpayers should fear the crisis created by mortgages denominated in Swiss Francs.

November 15, 2022 8:07 am

by Shaun Richards Today’s theme is something that has become quite a saga and reminds me of this from Paul Simon. hello darkness my old friend I have come to talk with you again This is because we have been …

Plastic recycling exacerbates global warming and costs taxpayers billions. Plastic recycling was a well intentioned idea that failed. After decades of effort only 5% of plastic gets recycled and failed efforts create 10X more global warming than doing nothing at all.

October 25, 2022 5:25 pm

Washington — Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again,” the study …

Another Trudeau swindle? ArriveCan app costs taxpayers $54 million and was completely hacked in less than two days

October 12, 2022 7:28 pm

To critique Arrivecan’s eye-watering $54-million price tag, over the Thanksgiving weekend a single techie managed to duplicate the app in less than two days. The endeavour was the brainchild of Lazer Technologies, a Toronto-based app developer that was among many …

More than 20 Governors Band Together Against Biden’s Plan that Will Suck Taxpayers Dry

September 13, 2022 10:06 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAj-6djpWUA According to the Washington Examiner, in a letter to the president, more than 20 GOP governors are urging him to abandon his plan to cancel student debt, arguing it will burden taxpayers heavily.

UK taxpayers are freezing meanwhile… King Charles III will inherit ~$750M and pay 0% in inheritance taxes

September 11, 2022 10:22 pm

Wall Street Silver – Twitter, Released on 9/11/22 Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/king-charles-doesnt-have-to-pay-inheritance-tax https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1568816152369074177

U.K. – Fire brigades spend £17,000 of taxpayers’ money on decorating engines in LGBT rainbow colours

September 5, 2022 4:24 pm

Fire brigades have been told to ‘fight fires not culture wars’ after it was revealed they spent over £17,000 painting fire engines in rainbow colours. The colourful paint jobs were approved by several fire and rescue service chiefs across England …

THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU. THEY DON’T HAVE TO. IRS to 120K taxpayers: Oops, our bad.

September 4, 2022 5:22 pm

via WSJ: The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is normally confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals before discovering the error and removing the data from its website, officials said Friday. The data are from Form 990-T, which is often …

Mark Nestmann: Congress Is Set to Unleash the IRS on American Taxpayers

August 10, 2022 2:28 pm

by Mark Nestmann on Nestmann.com: Last week, we learned that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin had signed on to a slimmed-down version of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” Plan (BBBP). The BBBP, with its $2 trillion price tag, passed the House of Representatives last …

Taxpayers Funding Ukraine’s Blacklisting of Americans

July 29, 2022 10:38 am

On July 14, the Ukrainian government published a bizarre list of academics, politicians, policymakers, and contrarian journalists, who are allegedly propagandists for Russia. The list includes sitting U.S. senators such as Rand Paul, R-Ky., former politicians such as Tulsi Gabbard, …

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Turns out taxpayers are funding recruiting advertisements for the Minnesota National Guard in … an LGBT magazine.

July 25, 2022 10:11 am

The Minnesota Army National Guard paid tens of thousands of dollars to advertise in an LGBT publication that has promoted transgenderism and “queer” identities among children. The National Guard, which operates through the Department of Defense, between 2019 and 2022 awarded $76,951 to Minneapolis-based Lavender magazine, paying for …

The FBI Is Institutionalized White Hatred Funded by Taxpayers Money

June 4, 2022 5:04 pmJune 2, 2022 6:14 pm

by Chris Black The FBI assistant special agent in charge in Washington DC, Timothy Thibault, has extensive social media writings raging against white people, Southerners, Catholics, etc. Conservatives are wrong when they say this sentiment at the FBI is limited …

The IRS could auto-fill nearly half of taxpayers returns, according to a new paper

May 3, 2022 9:09 am

— meaning they wouldn’t have to spend time and money filing their taxes (Business Insider) Every year, millions of Americans sit down to puzzle out their taxes — or pay someone else to do it. That’s not the case in …

Florida Sheriff Says “We Prefer” Homeowners to Shoot Burglars. “You’ll Save Taxpayers Money”

April 25, 2022 9:50 am

No responsible gun owner ever wants to be put in the situation where they have to use lethal force to defend their home or their family from a criminal intruder, but, thankfully, in states like Florida, with sheriffs like Bob …

U.S. taxpayers will pay for Ukraine salaries and pensions

April 24, 2022 8:51 amApril 22, 2022 5:47 pm

Pres. Biden's new $800 million military aid package to Ukraine includes: – Heavy artillery weapons– Dozens of howitzers– 144,000 rounds of ammunition– More tactical drones pic.twitter.com/8WqFDZkWhg — CBS News (@CBSNews) April 21, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pledged …

LAWRENCE SELLIN: Billions Go from US Taxpayers -> NIH -> US Universities -> Scientists in China -> Chinese Military

February 15, 2022 9:23 pm

Retired Colonel Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., was on The Joe Hoft Show at Real Talk 93.3 yesterday and he dropped some bombs on the origins of COVID and China’s and the US’s involvement. Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., shared an article at The …

This is basically giving the middle finger to the taxpayers….

January 28, 2022 8:13 pm

https://twitter.com/SibleyMom2/status/1486929293296889860

Biden Forcing Unbearable New Cost On Taxpayers

January 23, 2022 11:32 pm

The Biden administration is preparing to implement a new taxpayer-funded program aimed at providing “legal services” for illegal aliens, a move that critics say is certain to entice even more people to cross illegally into the U.S. The new federal …

AOC Says Taxpayers Should Have to Pay Her $17K Student Loan—Even Though She Makes $174K a Year

December 9, 2021 10:26 am

As a member of Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes a whopping $174,000 annually, meaning that she individually earns more than twice the average U.S. household’s income. Yet the progressive Democrat nonetheless thinks that working-class taxpayers should have to pay off …

NY Taxpayers Pay $750,000 To Bury Power Lines So Wealthy Residents Can See The Ocean View

December 1, 2021 10:18 am

The wealthy elite who drive along scenic Montauk Highway have been so bothered by overhead power lines blocking views of the horizon across the Atlantic Ocean that they recently convinced local officials to use $750,000 in taxpayer funds to bury …

The Biden administration’s plan to pay illegal immigrants is an insult to American taxpayers.

November 16, 2021 6:03 pm

The Biden administration’s plan to pay illegal immigrants is an insult to American taxpayers. @SandraSmithFox pic.twitter.com/sKqwtWCr9Y — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) November 16, 2021

New International Tax Deal Is Bad News For U.S. Taxpayers – Steve Forbes

October 28, 2021 10:37 am

The Biden Administration’s tax addicts just got their wish as 136 nations agreed to a new international tax deal that’s nothing but bad news for U.S. taxpayers. Steve Forbes on the reality behind this stealth-tax-increase move and on who would …

Colleges really think that taxpayers and tuition payers will tolerate this kind of stupidity forever.

October 20, 2021 8:00 pm

COASTAL CAROLINA SUSPENDS PROF FOR NOT BEING OUTRAGED ENOUGH ABOUT SOMETHING MISTAKENLY DEEMED RACIST. CONWAY, S.C., Oct. 20, 2021 — Theater students study the principle of the “willing suspension of disbelief,” meaning that in order to enjoy a show, audience members …

Taxpayers to spend $24.6 million a month on tent courts in Texas.

October 19, 2021 10:05 pm

The Biden administration on Thursday said it will begin to comply with a federal order to reinstate the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico Policy,” known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), by mid-November. MPP requires those applying for asylum in the …

Delta earns profit with help from taxpayers…

July 14, 2021 1:41 pm

Delta reported its first quarterly profit since late 2019 thanks to federal payroll aid. Domestic leisure demand has fully recovered and corporate travel also rose in the quarter. Delta said its third-quarter revenue would likely come in down up to …