Sentences with phrase «city taxpayers pay»

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If governments provide subsidies to these companies, they will often end up paying money to a number of companies that would have come (or stayed) in the city anyway, a waste of taxpayer dollars.

They became dwelling places for those requiring the greatest number of social services, just as the necessary tax base to pay for those services eroded — the taxpayers having fled to suburbia, where they could pretend that the pain of the city was neither their pain nor their fault.

We all know how Man City was before the Arabs came, we all know how much it costed them to win the league, we also know that the UK taxpayers paid for their stadium and insults them back by splashing on players» wages like there's no tomorrow.

The cheapest solution for Chicago taxpayers would be to turn over Soldier Field to McCaskey, eliminate all the city taxes, give him all the profits on concessions and parking, renovate the facility along the lines of the 1992 plan, and have the Park District continue to pay the $ 12 million a year that it costs to operate the stadium.

The mayor's decision to pay school - bus workers seniority benefits that are not part of their contract is going to cost taxpayers $ 136 million — and a city lawmaker is calling for an investigation.

Using that credit, businesses can get the state's taxpayers to reimburse up to 100 percent of the property taxes they pay to counties, cities, towns and schools.

Saying taxpayers shouldn't be stuck with the bill for $ 13.6 million in legal fees to defend against City Hall corruption investigations, a new lawsuit seeks to force NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and several top aides to pay their own way.

De Blasio shouldn't get taxpayer money to pay his legal bills until the city controller certifies he racked them up as part of his job as mayor, according to civil rights attorney Norman Siegel.

Teachout has called for a New York City - style campaign finance law that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and force taxpayers to pay for negative attack ads and mail.

Meanwhile, the city's Law Department has contracted two top - tier law firms, which will be paid with taxpayer funds, to deal with non-campaign-related aspects of the multifaceted federal probe.

«Over the last few months, New York City Democratic Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver has been under fire to resign over the sex scandal coverup and taxpayer funded pay - off involving Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

«By requiring counties and New York City to pay a local share of Medicaid, taxpayers with equivalent incomes living in different counties end up paying very different amounts toward Medicaid through local taxes.

Syracuse — If city taxpayers had to pay off the current bill for retiree healthcare, each household would owe more than $ 32,000, the most per capita of any city in New York, according to a study released today by the Empire Center.

De Blasio projected that 200,000 people who use the city's public hospitals would lose insurance under the bill, which would force taxpayers to pay those costs and result in hundreds of millions in additional deficits for the city hospital system.

Their salaries would be paid by city taxpayers as part of their county tax bill.

De Blasio staunchly defended a taxpayer - funded video put out by City Hall this week that used Broadway stars to trumpet his administration's accomplishments, insisting it wasn't an ad because no one paid for air time.

All we are trying to do is ensure that taxpayer investment is going to subsidize jobs that pay a reasonable wage... New York City will only remain the greatest city in the world by providing a high quality of life, attracting the best talent, and protecting our middle clCity will only remain the greatest city in the world by providing a high quality of life, attracting the best talent, and protecting our middle clcity in the world by providing a high quality of life, attracting the best talent, and protecting our middle class.

All together, the city's 2009 retirees will receive roughly $ 1.7 million a year in pension payments from the state's $ 129 billion system, primarily paid for by taxpayers.

«The plan that the mayor has proposed most recently is to spend the taxpayers» money to pay for a year's rent for for homeless individuals who are willing to move out of the city,» she fumed to interviewer John Catsimatidis.

MPs have warned taxpayers are likely to be forced into paying 95 per cent of the overspend, leaving officials at City Hall keen to move on from the disastrous PPP as a result.

«If we provide a taxpayer subsidy in exchange for jobs, we should expect jobs that pay a better wage than the minimum wage,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a statement ahead of the vote.

«My campaign has really been centered about quality of life, the issues that are plaguing the city and the fact that we're not getting the services we deserve as taxpayers but it's also been centered around the pay to play at City Hall and that there's literally a «For Sale» sign at the gates and we need to change this culture,» she said on NY1's «Morning on 1» show Friday morncity and the fact that we're not getting the services we deserve as taxpayers but it's also been centered around the pay to play at City Hall and that there's literally a «For Sale» sign at the gates and we need to change this culture,» she said on NY1's «Morning on 1» show Friday mornCity Hall and that there's literally a «For Sale» sign at the gates and we need to change this culture,» she said on NY1's «Morning on 1» show Friday morning.

Because room and board and supplies are paid for by the Police Foundation, and not with taxpayer moneys, the initiative has avoided scrutiny from outside authorities, such as the City Council.

«Mr. Trump held a fundraiser down in New York City a few weeks back and did raise some money, but they have — I would use the word — «struggled» to raise the private funds needed to pay these individuals who are working on behalf of the taxpayers but not being paid by the government,» said Congressman Chris Collins, who has been an advocate for Trump since early in his presidential campaign.

De Blasio said again Wednesday that he would not take taxpayer money to pay his legal bills, although he has set aside up to $ 11.6 million in city funds for lawyers representing other city employees questioned by investigators.

SU owns «a significant amount of untaxed land» within the city, so Syracuse taxpayers must pay for providing fire and police protection to the university, among other public works and municipal service, according to The Associated Press.

Therefore the taxpayers of New York City should just pay my rent.»

Hudson pointed out that tax - exempt property owners benefit from city services that are paid for solely by taxpayers.

Not only has the taxpayer spent billions to bailout the banks, they have had to pay millions to consultants in the City for the privilege.

Lots of people took much better photos than mine, but I just wanted to point out that we took over the streets outside the Federal Building, the State of Illinois Building, and City Hall, the key landmarks of government, paid for by us taxpayers and filled with people whom we vote into and can vote out of office.

Connecticut's schools are already underfunded and yet Connecticut taxpayers are paying about 80 % of the entire educational expenses in cities like Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven.

... Democrats oppose for - profits making profit off public resources, but if [New York City charter network founder] Eva Moskowitz wants to pay herself a half - million dollar salary with taxpayer money, that's totally cool.

Meriden spends $ 14,018 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 41 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 5,423 per student).

Stamford spends $ 18,570 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 86 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 14,919 per student).

New Britain spends $ 13,391 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 32 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 4,002 per student).

Windham spends $ 18,372 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 27 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 6,452 per student).

New London spends $ 16,753 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 30 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 4,635 per student).

New Haven spends $ 18,091 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 28 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 4,213 per student).

Norwich spends $ 16,622 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 43 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 6,747 per student).

The program is little more than a publicly - funded effort to create a pipeline to recruit and train charter school administrators, paid for by taxpayers of Connecticut and its three poorest cities.

Coterminous: Overlapping debt, such as the bonds of a city and a school district where both debts are being paid by the same tax base (taxpayers).

Thanks to an HOA's smaller focus, its residents are often apt to get more of the services they pay for than city residents who rely on taxpayer - funded public services that need to have a broad reach.

Also, you're mad that Occupy Wall Street is ruining the grass in front of City Hall and taxpayers have to pay for it?

Taxpayers may be subject to a tax lien if they fail to pay income, estate, county, and / or city taxes.

about $ 12K a MONTH to sit on CITY PROPERTY paid for by Austin taxpayers (so that they can now bring in competition for Austin's pets)-- the City won't incur add» l costs for APA!

This is an example of how No Kill can actually save taxpayer dollars, since the contract price is 15 % less than the amount the city had paid to run the shelter.

The city of Toronto, both in households, in street cleaning and in our parks, is paying for the fact the province will not regulate packaging and will not make the manufacturers and producers of that waste pay the cost of cleaning it up — which means the property taxpayer has to pay for it (and) we have to spend precious dollars from our parks department.

The city's taxpayers have to pay to empty them; It is no different from Toronto, where a few years ago Councillor Gord Perks complained:

In the City of Toronto, Councillor Gord Perks complained that almost half of the garbage that the city picked up in its parks was Tim Horton's stuff, and it was time to stop having taxpayers pay for what should be a producer responsibilCity of Toronto, Councillor Gord Perks complained that almost half of the garbage that the city picked up in its parks was Tim Horton's stuff, and it was time to stop having taxpayers pay for what should be a producer responsibilcity picked up in its parks was Tim Horton's stuff, and it was time to stop having taxpayers pay for what should be a producer responsibility.