Sentences with phrase «around tax dollars»

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

Not exact matches

With their average annual income hovering around $ 6,000, farmers aren't a rich source of tax dollars.

The rise in the Canadian dollar, which has hovered around parity with the U.S. dollar in recent months, the shortage of labour in the province, and even the new carbon tax add to the difficulties for B.C. businesses, he said.

After telling British Columbians they had no plans to impose a Harmonized Sales Tax, the B.C. Liberal government turned around after the election and announced a new sales tax that will cost consumers billions of dollaTax, the B.C. Liberal government turned around after the election and announced a new sales tax that will cost consumers billions of dollatax that will cost consumers billions of dollars.

If tax dollars couldn't be used to teach anything that isn't based on any facts, you couldn't even teach that the Earth goes around the Sun.

apparently with that said, we should therefore get rid of and ban ALL religious art from ALL museums that are funded with any tax dollars around the country.

That translates into around 17 billion dollars at sales value, excluding tax and tariffs levied locally.

I don't know how many cups of almonds makes a pound but currently I'm buying Almond Breeze, which is about four cups a box and each box after taxes comes to just around five dollars when it's not on sale.

Tranter began working at Friends of the Parks in 1980, around the time that the federal government sued the Chicago Park District for spending an unfair amount of tax dollars in powerful, white neighborhoods instead of minority communities, she said.

«The suburban communities around New York City continue to pay some of the highest property taxes in the nation as measured in real dollars, while Upstate communities still pay some of the highest property taxes rates in the nation as a percentage of their home values.»

He says the state's nearly top in the nation cigarette taxes bring in around $ 3 billion dollars a year, so there is resources to fully fund the anti smoking programs.

Local residents know what their community needs and should be directly involved in decisions around how their tax dollars are spent.»

He says the state's nearly top in the nation cigarette taxes bring in around $ 3 billion dollars a year, so there is resources to fully fund the anti-smoking programs.

He says the state would pay around $ 40 million of the estimated $ 125 million dollars a year that the new tax would bring in.

Speaking at a public lecture titled, «The State of the Ghanaian Economy — A Foundation of Concrete or Straw», chaired by Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Dr. Bawumia revealed that, the total cost of infrastructure from loans, grants and taxes from 2009 to date, is around 7 billion dollars, whereas government has borrowed in excess of 39 billion dollars.

Last week Democrats seized on a comment Rob Astorino made about Governor Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» revitalization program when he called it «throwing tax dollars around.»

In 2016, 25 of the 33 already shared some portion of the additional tax dollars with their charter schools, an amount estimated to be around two thirds of what charters will be entitled to under the new law.

In total, states spend around $ 800 billion tax dollars per year funding public education.

It funnels millions of dollars to Teach for America, Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education (which pushed for the Florida tax credit program that NC lawmakers studied), and numerous organizations around the country that lobby for charter school expansion.

This is the same type of work - around Florida uses to divert dollars to Step Up for Students Corporate Tax Credit vouchers.

Look around your school district and see where tax dollars are going.

Beginning in 2018, the legislature will rob urban and suburban school districts, mainly in King County, of about one billion dollars in «local levy» funds (paid for with property taxes of King County homeowners), change the name of this billion dollars to «state levy» funds and then spreads this money around to more rural school districts.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

Charbax says that US pricing for the 2 GB version should be around $ 179 «because European countries have more taxes they don't just convert Euro prices to US Dollar prices.»

Roth IRAs, however, are funded with after - tax dollars, so you won't get a tax break for contributing initially, but once retirement rolls around, your withdrawals will be tax - free.

This is what your after - tax dollars made by sitting around in an investment, exactly like interest.

Still, given that Ethereum is up around 900 % over the last year, the tax savings could be significant (thousands of dollars).

The possibility of AT&T to continue to be able to generate cash for their shareholders recently got better because they stand to gain around $ 3 billion dollars in cash flow during 2018 from the tax cut.

Their Heathrow - bound summer flights are usually around $ 1,200 return (with taxes), but they include an optional stopover in Reykjavik, where your dollar also stretches further than ever this year.

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been around since 1975; the average credit claimed per taxpayer in 1975 was $ 201 (or $ 886 in 2015 dollars).

Using our tax dollars to make a profit for themselves and then turn around and suck more interests out of the life of poor students / working parents.

Perhaps you owe somewhere around a few thousand dollars on your taxes.

But when the government gets around to breaking the world again, not an if but a when, then it may be so bad that this time failed life insurance companies will not get bailed out with gazillions of your tax dollars.

The advance purchase rate in June is around $ 250 after taxes, so you're paying about 30 cents on the dollar.

You can rent a ship and captain that you share with fellow travellers for around 500 - 700 US dollars (including border tax $ 100).

Selling the developer off has generated tax benefits of around $ 115 million dollars.

Most importantly however, officials are telling us that we can continue looking forward to seeing the Chevy Volt make its appearance in November of 2010, and it promises to stick around whether it makes money or not (they can thank our tax dollars for this little piece of good news).

I hope somebody at the conference can take some countermeasures, as in following the monitors around and finding out who they are and what they are being paid out of our tax dollars, and recording everything they do, etc..

At the current U.S. - Canadian dollar exchange rate (1.00 / 0.80), and converting from tonnes to short tons, the B.C. tax now equates to around $ 22 (U.S.) per ton of CO2.

Global Witness found that ex-CNDP fighters now in charge of the 212th national army brigade are pocketing tens of thousands of dollars per month from illegal taxes imposed on civilians working in and around Bisie, eastern Congo's largest cassiterite (tin ore) mine.

The pols love this one because it had the goal of trillions of dollars in carbon tax revenues to shuffle around.

Authoritative sources such as EarthTrack have placed the fossil fuel industry's tax and fiscal subsidies at around $ 25 billion a year, a figure that pales beside the roughly $ 1,000 billion (one trillion dollars) paid annually for coal, oil and natural gas burned in the U.S. Do the math: withdrawing those subsidies would lead to at most a 2 - 3 percent rise in the market prices of fossil fuels — scant incentive to reduce their use and concomitant emissions of CO2.

Tesla in fact receives $ 35,000 dollar in clean air credits for every Model S that it sells to customers, which in total was estimated to amount to 250 million dollar in 2013.4 To put these numbers in perspective, buying a Model S can cost anywhere around $ 70,000, so if the 35,000 dollar cost was passed on to the customer, prices would rise by about 50 %, not including whatever sales tax applies when purchasing a car.

There's just no states around that have a lot of law enforcement, so you'd have to see such a large - scale movement that would be so expensive that I'd have to think taxpayers would be upset that their tax dollars were being used on that.

A simple search of published court decisions shows that Wikipedia is frequently cited by judges around the country, involving serious issues and the bizarre — such as a 2005 tax case before the Tennessee Court of Appeals concerning the definition of «beverage» that involved hundreds of thousands of dollars, and, just this week, a case in Federal District Court in Florida that involved the term «booty music» as played during a wet T - shirt contest.

So while you'll be paying out - of - pocket for things throughout the year, you could save some major dollars when April rolls around and you submit your tax return.

The IRS is just getting around to developing a strategy to identify, assess and collect the billions of dollars in taxes from cryptocurrencies that some believe are going unreported.

«When it comes to other health care services, there are several thousands community health centers around the country that are pretty much funded by tax dollars that can provide the same services,» Tobias said.

You will be required to pay off any and all of the back taxes in order to apply for a tax deed in the state of Florida, plus the tax deed application price which may vary - usually around 200 - 300 dollars.

Between the MUD tax and the school tax (they have to pay for those $ 95 Million dollar stadiums somehow), the annual property taxes were around $ 5000 a year.