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where does our tax money go?

This is a pretty easy question to answer given that you’re talking about a public institution.

The only difficulty is that the answer is complex and requires reading and understanding many sets of financial reports and accompanying minutes et cetera.

a city near me just bought 32 benches at the cost of 70k€ EACH

That’s a pretty absurd claim, and simply not how budgets in public institutions work.

Sure there might have been some kind of fuckup so installation of one of 32 benches cost $70k, or any number of other plausible explanations, but large public institutions don’t just throw $2.25m EUR at the end of a quarter as a budget stuffing exercise.

How could this ever be a reasonable idea, regardless of this mother’s heritage.

Even if they’re only applied with good intentions, it’s still so obviously wrong.