Sentences with phrase «most politicians pay»

Most politicians pay lip service to religion in order to be elected.

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Accordingly, most American businesses aren't that concerned with the corporate tax rate of 36 percent and the lip service paid by politicians to reduce it.

So after seeking to meet with politicians and continually being turned away, some of us «God botherers» decided that we'd pay them a visit, and I guess refused to leave (in the most amiable, respectable kind of way) until we got an answer on when these children will be released.

The politicians that scream the most about cutting the fat from the lean are the first to vote for Congressional pay hikes.

Given that low - income individuals are the most likely to not vote largely because they need to work - often being paid hourly and needing the money more desperately than others, and that low - income individuals are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans, why hasn't a democratic politician spearheaded this effort that could see increased turnout from their base?

For the very highest level positions, or for the most flamboyant or charismatic politicians, the fame and recognition from being in political office will allow them to enrich themselves, once out of office, through different types of media - talk shows, jobs with news networks, books (with massive advances), and paid speaking engagements.

In a week when politicians try to bury news amid the Christmas rush, Mr. de Blasio said that he would grant six weeks of paid parental leave to 20,000 city employees, one of the most generous policies of its kind in the country and red meat for his liberal base.

Rather than stand up to the governor, my state senator — like most politicians in this city, in both parties — has taken the coward's way out, doing nothing for straphangers who pay escalating fares for service that is nothing short of catastrophic.

MANHATTAN — Icons of the civil rights movement, the city's most powerful politicians and hundreds of regular New Yorkers jammed into Riverside Church in Morningside Heights Wednesday to pay their respects to Harlem's Percy Sutton, who died last month at the age of 89.

First and most obviously is the argument that after the expenses scandal, and new questions being asked about politicians» pay, it's highly doubtful whether the public would approve of their tax revenues going towards political parties, especially in the amounts needed to make an impact.

A new poll finds most New Yorkers do not think giving the state's top politicians a pay raise is a good idea right now.

The problem in eliminating these inequities is some taxpayers will end up paying more and some less down the line — a radioactive equation for most politicians, says Carol Kellerman, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a good government group that's been seeking reform for years.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

There are many upset over the bonuses paid to AIG employees, most notably politicians seeking to curry favor with voters.

Through «talking heads» in the media and bought - and - paid - for politicians, super-rich powerbrokers have predominantly established their view about this world and what about it is most important to them.

There are a few researchers who are paid to disprove the hypothesis of Global Warming, and most of them are investigated and pilloried as if they were a politician running for office.

On the other hand, those affected by «name calling» are our politicians, celebrities and professional sports stars, most of who are paid considerably more than a manual worker and so perhaps that is why a slur that could cost them their reputation is valued so much more highly than a physical injury which might cost a labourer his livelihood.