All posts tagged "taxpayer money"
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Economy and Finance
Trump Signs $82 Billion Spending Boost for Pentagon
August 15, 2018The Pentagon doesn't need more money, but until politicians from at least one party show a...
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Editor's Choice
No Doubt About It: The Deep State Is Real and Trump Is Its Latest Tool
July 24, 2018The Deep State—a.k.a. the police state, a.k.a. the military industrial complex, a.k.a. the surveillance state complex—does...
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Editor's Choice
‘Perpetual War’ Explained In 140 Seconds
July 23, 2018As far as we can tell, only Ron and Rand Paul remain to argue against 'war'...
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Editor's Choice
FOIA Request Reveals FEMA’s Egregious Million Dollar Spending On A Floating Hotel … As Hurricane Victims Suffered
June 6, 2018Your tax dollars went not to helping the relief of victims affected by a hurricane but...
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Economy and Finance
101 People Owe Over $1 Million (Each!) In Federal Student Loans
May 25, 2018Rising college tuition and meritless loaning practices by the federal government has led to a massive...
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Editor's Choice
Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child Molesters
May 25, 2018The U.S. government has long known that U.S.-funded Afghan units routinely engage in bacha bazi —...
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Economy and Finance
The Federal Government Will Spend $685 Billion Subsidizing Health Care in 2018
May 23, 2018Over the next ten years, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is set to cost the...
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Editor's Choice
A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine
May 18, 2018In reality, the costs of America’s wars, still spreading in the Trump era, are incalculable.
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Economy and Finance
‘Astronomical’ Cost of War: Average US Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
April 18, 2018As long as we are forced to pay taxes, shouldn't that money be used to benefit...
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Editor's Choice
9 Ridiculous Things About the Omnibus Budget Bill
March 23, 2018Spending. The Pentagon. TIGER grants. Border Wall. NSF. Planned Parenthood. CDC. Head Start. The whole process....
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Controlling the Herd
Gov Schools to Become Anti-Gun Political Platforms Thanks to Neo-Marxist Organization
March 13, 2018All across America, thousands of publicly funded schools, government schools, have decided to open their doors...
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Editor's Choice
‘Could Feed All of America’s Homeless Vets’: Internet Pounds Official Announcement of Trump’s $30 Million Military Parade
March 13, 2018Many are calling for the unallocated funds that will be spent on the vanity project –...
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Editor's Choice
Nation Trying to Figure out Gun Violence to Hold Military Parade Glorifying War
March 13, 2018State violence is routinely exalted in American society, whether in the form of brutality from police...
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Controlling the Herd
Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?
February 28, 2018Why do we have more than a million cops on the taxpayer-funded payroll in this country...
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Economy and Finance
The Military Industrial Complex Strikes Again: War Spending Will Bankrupt America
February 16, 2018The problem we wrestle with is none other than a distorted American empire, complete with mega-corporations,...
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Crime/Police State
Paradigm Shift: City Now Forcing Bad Cops to Pay Victims Out of Their OWN POCKETS—Not Taxpayers
February 13, 2018In cases where cops are proven to have acted with malice, the taxpayers will no longer...
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Economy and Finance
‘Another Giant Spending Spree’: Budget Deal Denounced as Wasteful Gift to War Profiteers
February 8, 2018"Throwing more money at the Pentagon," one critic argued, "will only double down on the Trump...
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Editor's Choice
‘Washington Must Stop Spending Tax Dollars to Fund Regime Change Wars’ – Tulsi Gabbard
January 18, 2018In a shot across the bows of the US regime change hawks, the congresswoman from Hawaii...
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Economy and Finance
Army Finds $830 Million In “Missing” Helicopters As First Ever Audit Begins
January 12, 2018Considering that today’s already known accounting blunders at the Department of Defense are no small matter,...
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Crime/Police State
Insane Homeland Security Spending Doesn’t Make Us Safer
January 2, 2018What does the US have to show for spending billions on Homeland Security anti-terrorism?
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Economy
Taxation is Theft and Here’s a BIG Reason Why!
January 2, 2018You could arguably cut Federal Civil Servants by 50% (using a merit based system by which...
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Controlling the Herd
FACT CHECK: Have Federal Regulations Increased Ninefold Since 1960?
December 18, 2017“Every unnecessary page in these stacks represents [a] hidden tax and harmful burdens to American workers...
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Editor's Choice
Where in the World is the $21 Trillion?
December 13, 2017This is a great example of why the system has to be totally scrapped and started...
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Controlling the Herd
Kids’ Climate Change Lawsuit Goes Forward Thanks to 9th Circuit 3-Judge Panel
December 12, 2017A bunch of high-born, self-righteous, central-gov-supporting adults gathered up a group of kids and manipulated them...
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Economy and Finance
Pentagon To Undergo First Ever Audit After Decades Of Sloppy Accounting And Missing Trillions
December 11, 2017After decades of waste, overpayments, trillions of missing or improperly accounted for dollars, and most recently...
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Editor's Choice
Top House Democrat Took $50K From Taxpayers To Keep A Former Staffer Quiet
November 28, 2017The top Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources used taxpayer dollars to pay off...
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Editor's Choice
REVEALED: Top Democrat Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accuser With $27K In Taxpayer Money
November 21, 2017The bombshell allegations come just days after it was revealed that the Congressional Office Of Compliance...
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Crime/Police State
Since 1997, 264 Cases Of Sexual Harassment In Congress Have Been Settled For A Total Of $17,250,854
November 20, 2017That money has come from the taxpayers of course. That means that you and I have...
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Editor's Choice
US Spent $5.6 Trillion on Wars Since 9/11 – Study
November 8, 2017The Watson Institute claims to have used a "more comprehensive estimate" of the global ‘War on...
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Economy and Finance
$250 Million Each Day for 16 Years: The Staggering Cost of ‘War on Terror’
November 2, 2017The ‘War on Terror’ has cost US taxpayers at least $1.46 trillion since September 11, 2001,...