From my quick search, taxes come up to 4 billion.
Regular maintenance is 3 billion. Special projects for big repairs or new roads was 19 billion. But that also included some water infrastructure.
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I use a cover anyway because cracked glass isn't the look I go for, and use that cover to hold my cards. A millimeter less is something I won't notice.
They even sell extra durable phones with extra padding.
Ukraine: will they actually nuke when I send a drone? No.
Multiple drones on Moscow? Still no.
Blow up a bridge? Nope.
Maybe a boat? Silence.
It's actually curdled milk. It uses an enzyme extracted from the stomach of a calf or a modern replacement.
Now buttermilk is more like rotten milk.
There is an inverse relation between the wage a job pays and the contribution to society that the job makes, with a few exceptions like doctors. The highest paying jobs are very often parasites on society. This seems to originate from the Calvinist work ethic where meaningful work is its own reward.
~ paraphrased from David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs
Yeah, they're just sad it didn't work as expected and it makes them look bad.
And in a few years they'll headline "Lazy students refuse to study medicine, hospitals closing due to doctor shortage!"
Then they'll tell you how the rich go to the EU for treatment and blame it all in Brussels
Sounds like a good time to cancel a subscription and finish the ol' Steam library
There are Rules for Rulers. In the background there are always nobels, clergy, bankers, businessmen, military and the common folk each with their own demands and reasons to pressure or remove the ruler of their demands are not met.
There are a enough examples of leaders trying to change too much and being assassinated. Although these days that's more killed in the media.
In Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) it makes fun of this, with the company complaining that paper money is clogging the toilets as people use this because it's a lot cheaper than toilet paper because of extreme inflation.