Hi Jim. I don’t understand why it cost so much to keep FR going. Is there a budget available online?
Well, like most labor intensive computer companies, the lion’s share of our costs are personnel related. There are four of us working on this project. The rest is bandwidth, banking and credit card fees, communications expenses, legal and accounting, taxes, overhead, etc.
A link to our projected budget is posted in the sidebar of our donation page and it’s been posted there for many, many years:
https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/
By the way, the government did not build this. The FReepers did.
Thank you very much.