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SF Buying Beer, Vodka for Homeless Alcoholics with Taxpayer Money

San Francisco is giving homeless alcoholics free beer and vodka under a taxpayer-funded pilot program as city leaders grapple with the homeless crisis plaguing its streets. The city’s Department of Public Health runs the Managed Alcohol Program (MAP), which administers alcohol to addicts, Fox News reported. report Saturday. Officials hope the program will “take homeless […]

CT Gov objects to bill that could subsidize striking workers with taxpayer funds

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday he does not support a vague bill passed late in the legislative session that would create a $3 million fund that could provide financial benefits to striking union members. He indicated that he would likely exercise his veto. “Everything I know about this bill, I’m not going to support […]

Missouri Gov. Parson Signs Bill Banning Taxpayer Funds to Abortion Providers

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed a bill Thursday that prohibits abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving reimbursement from Medicaid. It is already illegal for taxpayers to directly fund abortions in the state. HB2634 Amend rules to prevent public funds from going to abortion-providing facilities or their “affiliated companies.” .@GovParsonMO Signs bill banning abortion […]

Republican Gov Signs Bill Withholding Taxpayer Funding From Abortion Providers

Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill Thursday that prohibits taxpayer funds from Medicaid from being used to pay abortion providers, according to a press release. The bill, HB 2634, was introduced in February and would make it “unlawful to expend public funds to an abortion facility or an affiliate of such an abortion […]

Terence Jeffrey: US Has Spent Boatloads Of Taxpayer Money On Education— But Students’ Test Scores Are Still Abysmal

New York state public schools spent $29,284 per student in “recurring expenditures” in fiscal year 2022, officials announced. report The Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics made the announcement this week. According to NCES, “Current expenditures include expenditures for the day-to-day operations of schools and school districts for public elementary and secondary education, […]

Illegal Migration Costs UK Taxpayer £14 Billion Per Year in Public Services

Illegal immigration costs British taxpayers at least £14 billion a year in public services alone, poses an “existential” risk to the country and depletes desperately needed limited resources. , said a former cabinet minister. Dame Andrea Jenkins, vice-chair of the European Research Group (ERG) and skills minister under short-term chancellor Liz Truss, told colleagues this […]

Georgia senators find little oversight over how Fani Willis spends taxpayer dollars: ‘Like the Wild West’

Georgia lawmakers on Friday heard testimony from Republican state senators who expressed concerns about how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis spends her $36.6 million budget with little oversight. State Sen. Bill Cowsert, a Republican representing Athens and chairman of the committee, asked Fulton County Commissioner Rob Pitts and Fulton County Chief Financial Officer Sharon […]

Columbia Shouldn’t Get Taxpayer Dollars

On Wednesday’s broadcast of FOX News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Prime Time,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said “this kind of nonsense” similar to what’s happening at Columbia University and Columbia University Other schools said they did not engage in such conduct. You deserve your tax money. Johnson said what is happening in Colombia is “not […]

Blue State Poised To Use Taxpayer Dollars To Pay Journalists’ Salaries

New York state is poised to hand out millions in taxpayer dollars to local media outlets to help pay for journalists’ salaries. The state will dole out $30 million over a three-year period to local media outlets in the form of tax credits, giving publishers the ability to offset up to 50% of the first […]