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30.12.2025 - 08:51 [ Fox News ]

Tim Walz pushes back on Minnesota fraud allegations following viral daycare video

„The governor has worked for years to crack down on fraud and ask the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action,“ the spokesperson said. „He has strengthened oversight — including launching investigations into these specific facilities, one of which was already closed.“

The spokesperson added that Walz has „hired an outside firm to audit payments to high-risk programs, shut down the Housing Stabilization Services program entirely, announced a new statewide program integrity director, and supported criminal prosecutions.“

30.12.2025 - 08:35 [ CBS News ]

How a viral video prompted investigations into alleged fraud at day care centers in Minnesota

(December 30, 2025)

In addition to the DHS investigations, state officials also visited some of the sites on Monday. (…)

CBS News visited and called several of the day care centers on Monday but received no responses.

30.12.2025 - 08:26 [ Nick shirley / X ]

Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable

(December 26, 2025)

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

30.12.2025 - 08:19 [ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent / X ]

At my direction, @USTreasury is investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab.

(December 1, 2025)

Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, we are acting fast to ensure Americans’ taxes are not funding acts of global terror.

We will share our findings as our investigation continues.

30.12.2025 - 08:17 [ City-Journal.org ]

“The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer”

(November 19, 2025)

Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.

In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”

11.12.2025 - 20:58 [ EU Today ]

Mass protests in Bulgaria threaten government, euro entry and EU defence plans

(December 8, 2025)

Mass protests over Bulgaria’s 2026 budget have plunged the country into yet another political crisis, with Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov’s minority government facing a no-confidence vote, a mass petition demanding its resignation and the prospect of an eighth early parliamentary election in five years.

The dispute comes just weeks before Bulgaria is due to adopt the euro on 1st January 2026 and risks overshadowing what was intended to be a landmark step in the country’s European integration.

07.11.2025 - 21:29 [ NYSfocus.com ]

Zohran Mamdani’s Next Big Battle is in Albany

(November 5, 2025)

The Working Families Party is open to backing a challenger to Hochul in the 2026 Democratic primary, including Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, who is running a longshot campaign to Hochul’s left.

“We will make that decision, likely in late January or early February, shortly after we see the governor’s executive budget proposal,” Gripper said. “She’s going to have to prove to her own party why she shouldn’t be primaried.”

04.11.2025 - 14:20 [ spectrumlocalnews.com ]

Running to Hochul’s left, Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado says tax hikes on the wealthiest may be on the table

(June 18, 2025)

Earlier Wednesday, Gov. Hochul told Pix 11, “I don’t want to lose more people to Palm Beach“ when asked about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan to raise taxes. Delgado referenced the governor’s comment when explaining his own position on taxes.

“All options should be on the table, and the notion that we wouldn’t contemplate raising taxes on the super wealthy, or that we wouldn’t contemplate making sure that larger corporations pay more into the system, to me, is the exact type of ‘maintain the status quo, do what you need to do just to maintain power’ as opposed to actually thinking about what is required,” he stated.

Hochul has raised corporate taxes, but has held the line on raising new income taxes.

04.11.2025 - 13:03 [ Legalclarity.org ]

New York State Executive Law: Powers and Responsibilities

Governor’s Powers

The governor of New York holds broad authority under the state constitution and Executive Law, serving as the chief executive responsible for enforcing state laws. Article IV, Section 3 grants the governor the power to propose legislation, approve or veto bills, and convene special legislative sessions. The veto power includes a line-item veto for budget appropriations, allowing the governor to eliminate specific expenditures without rejecting an entire bill. Overriding a veto requires a two-thirds majority in both legislative chambers, making gubernatorial decisions difficult to overturn without strong legislative opposition.

The governor also controls the state’s budgetary process under Article VII, submitting an annual executive budget that outlines expenditures and revenue sources. The Court of Appeals, in Silver v. Pataki (2004), upheld the governor’s dominant role in budget negotiations, reinforcing executive influence over financial policy. This control extends to discretionary funds allocated for economic development, infrastructure, and other initiatives without legislative approval.

04.11.2025 - 12:58 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Bürgermeisterwahl in New York Mamdani – klarer Favorit mit besonderen Plänen

Mamdani gehört zum linken Flügel der Demokratischen Partei. Er bezeichnet sich selbst als Sozialist und will seine Wahlversprechen am liebsten durch Steuererhöhungen für Reiche und Unternehmen umsetzen. Dafür bräuchte er allerdings die Unterstützung der Gouverneurin des Bundesstaates New York.

01.11.2025 - 16:01 [ ZohranForNYC.com ]

Zohran for New York City

Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.

01.11.2025 - 15:39 [ Independent.co.uk ]

300 of America’s wealthiest citizens ask Congress not to carry out tax breaks for them. Here’s why

(March 26, 2025)

The letter was organized by the Responsible Wealth Project in coordination with Americans for Tax Fairness and Voices for Progress, according to reports.

The group sent out a similar letter to Congress in 2022. A group of wealthy Americans also sent a letter to presidential candidates in 2020 urging them to tax the ultra-wealthy more for the benefit of most Americans.

28.09.2025 - 20:59 [ ZohranForNYC.com ]

Zohran for New York City

Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.

06.07.2025 - 03:35 [ Common Dreams ]

Designed To Enact Suffering

The Senate‘s barely-there approval – fuck Shady Vance – of Trump‘s heinous 900-page bill represents the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in U.S. history along with the largest cut to Medicaid and food assistance, all in the obscene name of (partly) funding a $975 billion tax break for the already richest 1%. The bill, „a tipping point between normality and fascism,“ also pours over $170.7 billion into „a campaign of extermination against immigrants that evokes the greatest human rights atrocities of the past,“ funding the hiring of vastly more Nazi thugs to terrorize, humiliate and put in cages millions of brown people who do much of this country‘s work.

It will kick about 16 million people off health insurance by cutting over $1 trillion from Medicaid, because who needs health insurance. It will throw millions of poor families, veterans, the elderly and disabled off SNAP by cutting $285 billion in food assistance, because who needs food. It will cut funding to rural hospitals, nursing homes, student loans, wind and solar energy – electric bills will soar 30% – costing millions of jobs and adding almost $4 trillion to the national debt, to be paid by our children and grandchildren, one of many excellent reasons it‘s said to be the most unpopular legislation since passage of the economically disastrous Embargo Act of 1807.

06.07.2025 - 03:11 [ CNN ]

Here’s who stands to gain from the ‘big, beautiful bill.’ And who may struggle

Worse off

Low-income Americans

Many people at the lowest end of the income ladder would be worse off because the package would enact historic cuts to the nation’s safety net program, particularly Medicaid and food stamps.

Among the many changes to these programs would be the addition of federally mandated work requirements to Medicaid for the first time in its 60-year history and the expansion of the work mandate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps. Parents of children ages 14 and up are among those who would have to work, volunteer, take classes or participate in job training to keep their benefits.

25.06.2025 - 17:37 [ TheAtlantic.com ]

Buy, Borrow, Die: How to be a billionaire and pay no taxes

(March 17, 2025)

Step one: buy. The average American derives most of their disposable income from the wages they earn working a job, but the superrich are different. They amass their fortune by buying and owning assets that appreciate.
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Instead of selling their assets to make major purchases, the superrich can use them as collateral to secure loans, which, because they must eventually be repaid, are also not considered taxable income.
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According to a provision of the tax code known as “stepped-up basis”—or, more evocatively, the “angel of death” loophole—when an individual dies, the value that their assets gained during their lifetime becomes immune to taxation.
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“Only morons pay the estate tax,” Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive and the then–chief economic adviser to Donald Trump, memorably remarked in 2017.

12.06.2025 - 20:16 [ Investigate-Europe.eu ]

European Defence Fund millions benefiting Israeli state-owned drone manufacturer

A European subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries is currently involved in 15 EU defence projects, including a multi-million euro drone development programme co-funded by European governments.

04.05.2025 - 20:45 [ Bill Astore / Bracing Views / Substack ]

U.S. Elites Learned Much from the Vietnam Defeat

So, what did they learn?

– They learned that wars can indeed last forever, but that Vietnam wasn’t the best “forever war” for the military-industrial complex because it became deeply unpopular and was disrupting cohesion within the military itself. The best forever wars are open-ended “wars” like the global war on terror. And perhaps a “new Cold War” with Russia and/or China. Wars that don’t involve the deployment of over half a million men (unless that “new” Cold War turns hot).

– They learned to control the narrative. No more journalists traveling freely in war zones as in the 1960s in Vietnam. Journalists are now most often embedded in U.S. military units. Embedded reporters, dependent on the military for access and protection, know what they can and can’t say, even as they tend to sympathize with the troops they’re with. ….

15.01.2025 - 21:22 [ Bündnis 90/Die Grünen ]

STEUERPOLITIK

➟ Gleiche Besteuerung von Kapital und Arbeit durch die Abschaffung der Abgeltungsteuer, damit Zinsen und Kapitalerträge nicht geringer besteuert werden als Löhne und Gehälter. Dividenden werden damit, bei Menschen, die nicht den Spitzensteuersatz zahlen, deutlich geringer besteuert als heute, weil für sie wieder das Teileinkünfteverfahren gilt, was die Dividende teilweise steuerfrei stellt. Zinsen hingegen werden wieder höher besteuert.

15.01.2025 - 21:21 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Sozialabgaben auf Kapitalerträge: Grünen-Vorschlag löst breite Diskussion aus

Die AfD sprach von einem „Schlag ins Gesicht der deutschen Sparer“. „Meint Robert Habeck ernsthaft, dass er die soziale Sicherung retten kann, indem er die private Vorsorge der Menschen erschwert?“, fragte der stellvertretende Bundessprecher Peter Boehringer.

Weniger emotional, aber in der Sache ähnlich ablehnend äußerte sich Kanzler und Kanzlerkandidat Olaf Scholz: „Ein alter Hut, das hat noch nie funktioniert“, sagte der SPD-Politiker zum Grünen-Vorschlag.

03.09.2024 - 14:02 [ MDR ]

Analyse: Wo wir beim Wasserstoff-Import stehen

(31. August 2024)

In den vergangenen Tagen ist viel über Wasserstoff geredet worden – sowohl auf Bundesebene als auch auf regionaler Ebene. Die Planung der für den Einsatz notwendigen Infrastruktur ist ein kleines Stück weiter vorangeschritten: Die Fernnetzbetreiber haben der Bundesnetzagentur ihre Ausbaupläne für ein sogenanntes Wasserstoffkernnetz von 9.666 Kilometern Länge vorgelegt.

Die Investitionskosten beziffert die Behörde mit knapp 20 Milliarden Euro. Geld, das sowohl über Netzentgelte als auch über eine staatliche Zwischenförderung aufgebracht

21.04.2024 - 06:50 [ Flughafen-berlin-kosten.de ]

Flughafen Berlin (BER) Kosten

Wieviel der neue Berliner Flughafen (BER) den Steuerzahler bis zur Eröffnung gekostet hat
7.079.900.000 Euro

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≈ umgerechnet…

8.697.665 Kita-Plätze

23.01.2024 - 10:55 [ Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer ]

DB schürt weiterhin den Tarifkonflikt: GDL erläutert Hintergründe der Tarifauseinandersetzung

Die Weltsicht der DB ist an Arroganz nicht zu überbieten. Laut Staatskonzern sind die Arbeitgeber der Wettbewerbsunternehmen, welche bisher mit der GDL verhandelt haben und entsprechende Abschlüsse erzielten, Schwächlinge, die vor einer Gewerkschaft einknicken, keine ausreichenden Gelder zur Verfügung haben, und deshalb klein beigeben müssen. Weil sie über zu wenig Geld verfügen und nicht bereit sind, höhere Summen für Verluste in einer Tarifauseinandersetzung hinzunehmen, sind sie aus Sicht der DB AG nicht repräsentativ!

Da die Führungskräfte der DB AG über Macht, Einfluss, Geld und alle Verbindungen zu den Entscheidungsträgern, wie etwa zum Eigentümer Bund, Landesregierungen und/oder auch Aufgabenträgern verfügen, wähnen sie sich in Sicherheit, glauben an ihre Mission und lassen den Tarifkonflikt mit der GDL absichtlich und im vollen Bewusstsein immer weiter eskalieren.

Es kostet die Manager rein gar nichts, denn es ist niemals ihr Geld oder gar ihr Eigentum, es ist immer das Geld der anderen – der Steuerzahler, welches ausgegeben wird. Das befreit das Management der DB AG, denn deshalb sind die entstehenden Kosten in einer Auseinandersetzung mit der DB AG die schönste Nebensache der Welt.

16.01.2024 - 00:05 [ Landwirtschaft verbindet Bayern e.V. ]

1. Wer ist diese junge Bewegung?

Unter dem Banner Land schafft Verbindung haben sich im Oktober 2019 viele tausende Bauern zusammengefunden um unter anderem gegen eine undurchdachte Verbotspolitik, für eine faktenbassierte Diskussion unserer Zukunft, bessere Lebensbedingungen und für ein faireres Miteinander ohne Bauernbashing uvm. zu demonstrieren!
Der Landesverein Landwirtschaft verbindet Bayern e.V. gründete sich im Mai 2020 und ist nachfolgend als LSV-Bayern und auch LvB bekannt.

Dabei ist der LSV betont Verbands- und Parteineutral und sieht sich eher als Mediator zwischen den einzelnen Landwirtschaftlichen Verbänden. Wir sprechen und suchen Lösungen für die Landwirte mit allen Parteien der Demokratischen Mitte und lehnen extreme Tendenzen im Rechten und auch Linken Spektrum entschieden ab.

15.01.2024 - 23:48 [ Welt / Youtube ]

BAUERN-PROTESTE: Bauernpräsident Joachim Rukwied hält Rede in Berlin vor dem Brandenburger Tor

Der Bauernpräsident betonte mit Blick auf die bundesweiten Proteste der Landwirte, es sei nicht gelungen, das Anliegen in die rechte Ecke zu drängen. Die Bäuerinnen und Bauern seien aufrechte Demokraten und stünden zum Grundgesetz. Rukwied wies darauf hin, dass weiterhin eine sichere Versorgung mit heimischen Lebensmitteln gewährleistet sein müsse. Das sei auch die Grundlage für eine stabile Demokratie.

15.01.2024 - 23:26 [ Eva Vlaardingerbroek / Twitter ]

Thousands and thousands of farmers, truckers and other hard working citizens took to the streets of Berlin today to remind their government and the globalists of one simple thing: “We are The People and we are taking back control.”

This is just the beginning.

15.01.2024 - 23:21 [ Eva Vlaardingerbroek / Youtube ]

The German firefighters are supporting the farmers’ protests in Berlin. Solidarity!

15.01.2024 - 23:14 [ Welt / Youtube ]

PROTEST IN BERLIN: „Hau ab!“ Wut auf Lindner! Bauern kündigen schon neue Proteste an | WELT Stream

Zu der Kundgebung kamen nach Polizeiangaben 8500 Menschen und rund 6000 Fahrzeuge. Der Bauernverband sprach von rund 30 000 Demonstranten mit fast 10 000 Fahrzeugen.