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The US government is currently taxing its citizens around 20% for debt interest (up 30% in the last ten years) and almost 30% for the military.
Talk about taxation without representation. Its for Corporate welfare and lining pockets of private interests. The pentagon sure seems like a ponzi scheme. If it quacks like a duck...
Post from @Scout_503 on X:
Hillsboro, Oregon sits at the end of 6 transpacific sea cables connecting the US to Asia. That’s why 30+ data centers are here.
And more are being built. Pushing further west every year into farmland that’s been there for generations. Buying up land, Giving mass amounts of money to home owners to move. Tearing down homes. Tearing down historic sites.
$7.2 billion in exempted property taxes. Some of these finished buildings are sitting completely dark. PGE told them no power for 3-5 years. They built them anyway.
A pioneer homestead from 1865, 190 years of continuous farming is about to be gone, NTT Global Data Centers got that land tax-free until 2051. Signed in a single day at City Hall.
Meanwhile Intel, the employer that brought thousands of jobs to Hillsboro is laying people off.
Electricity bills have gone from $80 to $150. Water rates are set to increase 105% over 5 years, to fund data center infrastructure, not residents.
Starting to feel like verified profile links are a key signifier of active mastodon accounts at this point. So many dead accounts 0_0.
Guess I'll work on setting up and verifying that Til Hugo blog and photo blog finally.
https://kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/iran-war-kicks-off-new-energy-supply
Our world economic, trade, and food system is incredibly fragile.
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