Sentences with phrase «american taxpayer»

«It seemed as if the banks and other firms got a $ 700 billion bonanza and the American taxpayer got the shaft,» says a preview of the piece that will be published in Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine.
Quickly the discussion turned to AWEA's favorite subsidy, the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), the wind industry's 2.3 cents per kWh handout from the American taxpayer.
It is also a waste of American taxpayer's money.
In a video message delivered to the Doha summit on December 6, Sen. Inhofe noted: «While he has been racking up huge deficits and talking up tax increases, the President has already sent billions of American taxpayer dollars to the United Nations — and he's managed to do it quietly so that no one will notice.»
It was intended to justify a global tax - with the American taxpayer getting soaked the most - to create a giant slush fund for the world political elite, the result of which would make those elitists richer and everyone else poorer.
MARK STEYN: More than a decade and a half after 9/11, the mastermind of that murderous attack on the US mainland, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, sits in rather comfortable accommodations at American taxpayer expense in Guantanamo Bay.
More hard - working American taxpayer money burnt by brainless ideology on un-green fantasies.
Let's remind ourselves of the cost to the American taxpayer of just the merest foretaste of what is coming:
At the expense of the American taxpayer, of course.
After I ran Daniel Yergin's reflection on the pivotal role played in the shale boom by George P. Mitchell, the Texas energy entrepreneur and philanthropist who died last Friday, Trembath and the leaders of Breakthrough, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, sent a reaction focused on the silent partner in this energy revolution — the American taxpayer.
Surgery was handed out at no cost because the American taxpayer was footing the bill.
The federal government has actually now got into the business of making «direct student loans» to students, where now they are skipping the banks completely and making the American taxpayer (including the student when he / she graduates and finds a job) the co-signer for many federal student loans.
What a standard deduction is, is that set free deduction you get for being an American taxpayer.
That seems like a bad deal for the American taxpayer.
The tone of the press release juxtaposes when he proclaimed, «Washington now has completed a government takeover of the college loan industry, and shifted the burden completely onto the American taxpayer
6) Goldman Sachs is the key component of the oligarchy that controls the US Government and sucks the blood of the American taxpayer for profit.
«This legislation puts FHA on firmer footing to achieve its dual mission of helping to stabilize the housing market during tough times and providing affordable home ownership options to underserved American families while protecting the American taxpayer by bolstering the strength of the fund.»
By May 24, 2011, Chrysler finished repaying its obligations to the U.S. government five years early, although the cost to the American taxpayer was $ 1.3 billion.
All that and more plus guest host Murray Feldman from Fox 2 News, Detroit wonders when or if the American taxpayer will ever make money or break even on their investments in automakers.
Those who answer «Yes» identify themselves as representatives of the American taxpayer and the millions of poor children — throughout the USA, including our nation's capital -LRB-!)
And since those early days, the federal role in education has only grown, both in terms of its size and scope, as well as its cost to the American taxpayer.
It's a level of obviousness matched by the film in moments like one in the middle of the game where Efraim screams «fuck the American taxpayer
All government employees and their agency heads need to remember they are accountable to the American taxpayer who pays their salaries and funds their projects.
«I find it deeply troubling that while our country is facing fiscal challenges of gigantic proportions... that programs such as this are being funded on the back of the American taxpayer,» he said in offering his amendment on 29 May.
«The oil and gas subsidies are costly to the American taxpayer and do little to incentivize production or reduce energy prices,» the White House says in a document listing programs the administration wants to end.
This kind of shoddy work is unacceptable from any scientific body, let alone one funded by the American taxpayer.
The statement clarifies Bucshon's comments by explaining that the draft legislation «is consistent with the plan approved by the National Science Board that requires NSF staff to provide clear justifications for why grants are worthy of American taxpayer funds.»
«This is a prime example of intergovernmental collaboration and expertise that has a direct benefit to the American taxpayer
Behind the scenes, the former rivals started crafting a deal that put American taxpayer dollars into Russian rocketry and spacecraft, keeping up operations in orbit.
«President Obama has once again marginalized America's preeminence in human spaceflight, as well as the American taxpayer, for the benefit of his climate research programs,» said Representative Pete Olson of Texas when Obama released his proposed NASA budget earlier this year.
If you were an investor and you were an American taxpayer, would you want to shove these billions of dollars back into NASA's hands and say, «ok, do it to us again»?
«The free enterprise system and private capital is the reason why this is coming back, but without a down payment by the American taxpayer, there would have been» thousands of jobs lost, he said.
How about fact checking this cost to the American taxpayer, 800 billion dollar stimulus created 800,000 jobs, doe the math on that per job, Obama's healthcare, do the math on that one and if you truly want to check some facts in regard to Clinton's surplus, check out the cut to National Security from which the surplus was created and where it led us with respect to 9/11 and two wars.
Who loses, the American taxpayer.
The biggest theft and waste of the American taxpayer is your Governments.
As a result, American taxpayer money is currently supporting the use of child soldiers in several countries, and the highest levels of Congress, the State Department and White House all know about it.
But the law also ensures that American taxpayer money isn't used for buying weapons or equipment that will end up in the hands of children forced to fight in conflicts around the globe.
As a secular, American taxpayer, I say take your religion out of the schools that are funded by my taxes.
But it failed» and the American taxpayer has to foot the bill.
«This decision is misguided and denies the reality that bankrupt foreign companies will be the beneficiaries of an American taxpayer bailout.»
The money the Bank makes comes from interest charged to international buyers using its services, not the American taxpayer.
No government officials involved other than the initial money going in to the companies for the American taxpayer to then receive their equity stakes.
«This development is troubling for a number of reasons, not least of which is that this is the first time SIGAR has been specifically instructed not to release information marked «unclassified» to the American taxpayer,» Sopko wrote.
«A complete lack of oversight is causing this program to fail the American taxpayer — everything that could go wrong is going wrong,» Sen. Claire McCaskill (D - Mo.)
Tax identity theft is a growing problem for the American taxpayer.
«We look forward to working with the U.S. Air Force on subsequent phases of the program allowing us to deliver the best planes for the President at the best value for the American taxpayer
American taxpayers, via their elected representatives, loathed saving millionaires and billionaires on Wall Street.
The ISS mission, which will be funded by American taxpayers, will feature a rebuilt and redesigned launchpad that cost SpaceX $ 50 million, according to a Wired report.
The war in Afghanistan, going on 17 years now, is the longest - running war in US history and costs American taxpayers about $ 3.1 billion a month.
The clock is ticking for American taxpayers who hold money overseas: Report your foreign accounts to the IRS and Treasury, or else.
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