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The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can (responsiblestatecraft.org)
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Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data acquired by Responsible Statecraft.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

There's a really good way for the DOD to avoid getting price gouged like this and it's [ ... To view the rest of this comment from your government-associated IP address, please remit payment of $45,000 to help cover the data storage cost of the message ... ]