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Re:A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university by grecy on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:14PM (#18187499)
It's the way our "Developed World" functions now - growth above all else.

My brother recently built a house, and the taxes and fees from the local city council are sky high. Of course, the city council did just build themselves a lavish new office building for $20M that looks like it belongs in a contemporary art museum.

It's no secret if they had just built a nice and functional building with the same office space for $10M everyone would be paying less city rates. But that's not how our world works.

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Re:A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:05PM (#18187921)
The year to year vehicle excise tax increases where I used to live almost always were on the same order of magnitude as whatever boondoggle project the taxpayers were refusing to fund.
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