Sentences with phrase «actually cost the taxpayer»

A study by Rockport Analytics reaffirmed that government travel for meetings leads to greater productivity and efficiency and found that cancelling government participation in meetings and conferences can actually cost taxpayers more in the end.

On the affordability issue, the pilot will allow us to see what it actually costs taxpayers when we do not improve fairness to low - income communities.

Much - touted pension reforms in Rhode Island actually cost taxpayers $ 1.4 billion in just four years, according to a new report commissioned by retirees.

Not exact matches

So why are all political parties afraid of borrowing money at historically low interest rates to pay for needed infrastructure spending that might actually pay for itself through higher productivity and higher income, without any cost to the taxpayer?

Many of those teachers of whom you speak are not fired, but are kept on and PAID to do nothing, costing the State of NY taxpayers millions of dollars that could be better spent elsewhere or actually SAVED!!

«We understand some people want to protect their fiefdoms at all costs, but the Governor's plan is to get municipalities to talk to each other and actually lower costs for property taxpayers,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

According to a joint report from the Department for Business, the CBI and the TUC, entitled Reps in Action the work of union representatives actually saves employers around # 1.1 billion annually by helping to resolve disputes and preventing illness and injury at work - ten times more that the # 113 million that Norman claims union representatives cost the taxpayer.

Well, actually, you can: it's cost the taxpayers over fifty million dollars.

Those that refuse to address the prohibitive cost to taxpayers of actually physically blasting through dense rock to create the necessary width in a couple of locations for a trail by track scheme?

While protecting charter schools, who proved to be among his largest campaign donors, Malloy's new spending plan actually includes a variety of significant cuts to public education programs including a $ 15 million cut in the school transportation grant which will simply shift the burden for those costs onto local property taxpayers.

Over the past two decades, the non-teaching staff at public schools in Mississippi has grown rapidly while the number of students actually decreased, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

More recently, the group sent out glossy mailings to voters in a number of Connecticut legislative districts «thanking them» for their pro-charter school vote — a vote that will actually end up costing state and local property taxpayers even more money.

At the same time, Malloy actually froze Connecticut's Educational Cost Sharing school funding formula meaning that any inflationary increases and program enhancements that take place in any Connecticut public school will come on the backs of Connecticut's local property taxpayers.

This is good because the bailout of Fannie and Freddie (which is actually a bailout of large banks) has cost U.S. taxpayers $ 145 billion so far.

A recent biofuel program actually wiped out jobs rather than creating them as intended, while costing taxpayers a lot of money.

And it is ratepayers and taxpayers that are actually doomed to end up footing the huge bill first for subsidizing the construction of wind and solar installations, then enduring the resulting unreliability of the electric grids, and finally for their huge disposal costs.