The City of Phoenix Is Pushing Back on Tax Cuts so It Can Keep Fleecing Taxpayers
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Arizona state General Fund is flooded with revenue. Latest projections show the state with $1.2 billion in ongoing revenue and a cash balance upwards of $6.5 billion in FY2024. This is by far the largest budget surplus in state history and doesn’t even include the $1 Billion stashed away […]
Taxpayers Spend $600k per Unit for Homeless High-rise in L.A.
A new high-rise housing tower for the homeless, built at a cost of $600,000 per unit, opened in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday. Local ABC affiliate KABC-7 report: The 19-story development, known as Weingart Tower, will have 278 units and will be the largest permanent supportive housing project in Los Angeles, aiming to help people […]
How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots on the Ground This Election
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, RealClearInvestigations has found. A dizzying array of overwhelmingly “democracy-focused” entities with ties to the Democratic Party operating as charities and funded with hundreds of millions of dollars […]
Corporations selling Medicare Advantage are swindling the American taxpayers – Daily Kos
It is time to declare Medicare Advantage a failed experiment that is not only defrauding Americans, but also killing them. Medicare Advantage is a scam Watch Politics Done Right TV here. Let’s talk about The $600 billion scamRecent research makes a compelling case for abolishing Medicare Advantage. How much would it cost to vote out […]
DNC will foot the bill for part of Jill Biden’s pricey back-and-forth Delaware-France flights, taxpayers on the hook for the rest
The Democratic National Committee said Monday it will cover some of the federal government’s costs for First Lady Jill Biden’s round-trip flights from Delaware to France, but taxpayers will foot the rest. The Daily Mail reported Monday that the first lady’s multiple trips separately from the president last week, including to eldest son Hunter Biden’s […]
Michigan lawmaker wants to pay reporters, news organizations to uncover corruption and save taxpayers cash
(The Center Square) – A Michigan lawmaker wants to pay reporters and media outlets to expose public corruption and save taxpayers money. Republican Councilman Joseph Aragona of Clinton Township came up with the idea after The Detroit News recently exposed questionable spending surrounding a $20 million grant by businesswoman Faye Beydoun, who served on the […]
Taxpayers still on hook for COVID-shuttered ICE facility amid objections by blue state lawmaker
Federal officials are again extending an evaluation of a mostly shuttered California detention center that holds thousands of illegal immigrants, with one lawmaker calling for the facility to be reopened amid continuing costs. “Although the Administration ended the COVID-19 national emergency over a year ago, the Adelanto ICE facility remains prohibited from processing new detainees,” […]
$85M ICE detention center remains mostly empty on taxpayers’ dime: Contractors, nonprofits ‘are the ones benefitting’
According to reports, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement recently increased funding to a facility in California that serves as a detention center for illegal immigrants. building owner. Earlier this week, security firm GEO Group announced that the federal government would continue funding the 1,940-bed Adelanto ICE Processing Center. The center has remained mostly empty since […]
Taxpayers Turning on Funding NPR
Taxpayers are stepping up public funding for National Public Radio (NPR), according to a new study from DailyMail.com/TIPP. investigation Asked Respondents asked, “Do you agree or disagree that NPR should lose taxpayer funding because of its political bias?” Overall, 44% agree that NPR should be defunded, while 26% disagree. A further 31% are still unsure. […]
NIH director admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — four years after COVID pandemic began
Finally! Finally, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak told Congress Thursday that U.S. taxpayers paid for the work done at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in the months and years before the COVID-19 pandemic. admitted to funding acquisition research. Asked by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) whether NIH grants to the Manhattan-based […]