Fuel and energy is also mining and has kickbacks.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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My local government (county and city) do this here in the US, it would be nice to see this on a state and federal level too though
Problem is in the US since so much of that is put into private sector hands we'd need to gather data on those costs outside of the taxes to put together a proper picture.
Based.
Other purposees are maybe funding for the esa (european space agency)
You pay more in taxes than I earn in a year.