Sentences with phrase «guinean public treasury»

When the scandal broke, the BC Liberals repaid $ 70,000 to the public treasury.

As the CCPA calculated in our recent tax paper, if B.C. taxed today at the same rates that prevailed in the year 2000, the public treasury would be $ 3.5 billion richer.

Furthermore, when appropriations for education are made directly from the public treasury, they should be granted to politically independent agencies so that government financial support does not become a means for political domination of education.

Deplore as we may the existence of the parochial school, its challenge to the separation of church and state, and its attempted inroads on the public treasury, the fact remains that parochial schools exist primarily because Catholic parents, who pay their public - school taxes, think it worth while to submit to additional cost and often to much inconvenience to see to it that their children receive the religious instruction denied them in the public schools.

In response to this warning, the editors pointed out that our laws do not «ban God from public life,» but they do ban the bishops from «the public treasury» (March 4, 1959).

I've seen conservatives come and go for decades, and when they get into power, they still bleed the public treasury to feather their own nests and indulge their pet priorities, They all waste.

No access to the public treasury, which we know how well to abuse and plunder?

It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury» - unknown (frequently attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler or Alexis de Tocqueville).

The third is that the same principle you cited applies - «It can only exist until the [majority stakeholders] discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.»

«Publishing the names of public officials involved could go a long way in preventing senior public officials from turning the public treasury into a private cashbox.

But at what cost to the public treasury, and at what burden to the local taxpayer?

«The economic situation my government and I inherited was not the best; both in terms of the growth of our economy and the balances available in the public treasury.

People don't give money to politicians unless they expect much more in return, usually from the public treasury.

And that the citizens of this commonwealth may be assured, from time to time, that the moneys remaining in the public treasury, upon the settlement and liquidation of the public accounts, are their property, no man shall be eligible as treasurer and receiver - general more than five years successively.]

In the said comments, Mr. Tinubu said «The prior government used the public treasury as a private hedge fund or a charity that limited its giving only to themselves,» he said.

In recognition of the resolution of all outstanding issues and finalisation of new investment agreement terms, Simfer paid $ 700 million to the Guinean Public Treasury.

Abolish the shadow government of so - called «public authorities» and off - budget, under the radar private corporations draining the public treasuries like the SUNY Research Foundation and HRI (Health Research Incorporated).

He disclosed that those in that category had been advising the government that it should merely ask the looters of public treasury to return the money and go free.

President Buhari has promised to sell them, and return the funds into public treasury.

«There seems to be a preponderance of the People Democratic Party members standing trial because they had been in power for 16 years, they had access to the public treasury and abused the trust reposed in them.

While the additional jobs are a boost for the local economy, their cost to the public treasury has not yet been calculated — or at least disclosed.

Money has been sloshing into the public treasury faster than City Hall can spend it, though not for want of trying.

In her judgment Justice Shagari agreed with SERAP that «the Federal Government has a legally binding obligations to tell Nigerians the names of all suspected looters of the public treasury past and present.»

Is this a small drain on the public treasury?

But it's not a game changer, and Cuomo didn't so much attract SolarCity to Buffalo as he did raid the public treasury to make them an offer they couldn't refuse.

This is about protecting the public treasury, passing laws in the right manner.

Nevertheless, since releasing the list, the Federal Government has been severely criticised for failing to mention names of APC officials accused of looting public treasury or involved in corruption allegations.

But in February 2012 an official note from the Equatoguinean government to UNESCO stated that the funds were «no longer» provided by the Obiang Foundation, but by the Public Treasury of Equatorial Guinea.

The wage increases were, at best, transfer payments from the public treasury to the teachers — a maneuvering of funds that will neither increase nor decrease the overall social welfare, given that typically a dollar in the hands of one party is worth as much as it is in the hands of another.

Unemployment hovers around 9 percent, salary increases are hard to come by, and public treasuries are steeped in debt.

The state justified denying the benefits on language in its constitution stating that «no money shall be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination of religion.»

Florida's constitution, for example, declares, «No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.»

«No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.»

32 The New Hampshire Supreme Court likewise rejected the standing of petitioners challenging the state's scholarship tax credit law, ruling that they could not demonstrate any harm.33 The following year, citing the decisions in Arizona and New Hampshire, the Alabama Supreme Court also held that a «tax credit to a parent or a corporation... can not be construed as an «appropriation»» but rather such funds retain their status as private funds until they enter the public treasury.34 That view seems to be the prevailing one in courts, so with the possible exception of Michigan, where the state constitution explicitly prohibits tax benefits for religious education, tax credits should survive scrutiny under such provisions.

That the funds never reach the public treasury, they don't enter in the tax collector's hand, therefore there are no constitutional implications.

The corporate education project has nothing to do with growing new generations of smarter, socially aware, independent - thinking citizens, but is designed to raid public treasuries through wholesale contracting - out of public schooling.

Known generally as a Blaine Amendment, the provision reads: «No money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, or denomination of religion.»

Using tax credits to fund the scholarships, instead of direct payments from public treasuries, enabled lawmakers to work around state bans on the use of public funds to support religious institutions.

The changes would also cost about $ 260 million a year from the public treasury to help offset the additional financial burden that expansion would eventually place on low - income earners.

The local government personnel benefit by extending more control over our lives, enriching the public treasury with fees, tags and fines, and giving the appearance that local government is doing something about animal populations, disease and risks to the public.

Those are higher energy prices, higher land prices, climbing population, static personal incomes, declining public treasuries, and lack of competitiveness in core industries.

Now, the mentality of austerity threatens to relegate red - greens to the same corner as financial elites who sought lavish help from the public treasuries... if the climate crisis did not exist, it may have been necessary to invent it so that this synchrony could finally occur.

There are huge net earning for the public treasury!

Not exact matches

Reuters reported on Monday, citing a Treasury source, that Italian authorities will intervene with public money if necessary to ensure the continuity of the bank and to protect clients» savings.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reflected on the way he and his wife became viral sensations after recently posing with photos of new dollar bills, acknowledging that he did not know the photographs would go public.

A large share of Italian debt issued under domestic legislation does not have any contract terms and is regulated by an Italian law that gives the Italian Treasury ample latitude to restructure the debt... The composition of Italian public, however, is changing rapidly because in January 2013, Eurozone members started issuing bonds with standardized contract terms.

Tony Sayegh, the assistant treasury secretary for public affairs, said the announcements are «helping shift so much of the misinformation that was put out there.»

No - one at the Treasury was immediately able to break down the 3 billion pounds committed by Hammond, but obvious calls on the public purse include investment in new customs points and officers, increased staffing to handle migration issues, and new regulatory agencies to do the work currently done at EU level.

She was invited to the White House during President Obama's administration to speak about financial literacy and to moderate a public meeting of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability at the U.S. Treasury Department.

Tony Sayegh, Treasury's assistant secretary for public affairs, said in a statement that CREW's report contains «falsehoods and mischaracterizations.»