Sentences with phrase «backs of taxpayers»

Our changes will split up the big banks so that in future bankers can not gamble and gorge themselves on fat bonuses on the back of a taxpayer guarantee.

With intimidation, illusion and theater, Silver has made a mockery of the Assembly, pandered to public employee unions and expanded entitlement programs, inviting every Tom, Dick and Harry to climb on the backs of our taxpayers, costing us jobs and higher taxes.»

«He got rich off the backs of taxpayers after he steered a town contract to the same company he was moonlighting for on the side.

«Our state can no longer afford to continue spending beyond our means and lean harder and harder on the backs of our taxpayers to make up the difference.

«He's kept property taxes low and he hasn't done it on the backs of taxpayers,» Giuliani said at a news conference in Bethpage in front of the county's Office of Emergency Management.

I can't stand the thought that all the special interests in real estate, politics and the unions are preparing to party hard tomorrow, knowing they will be rewarded on the backs of the taxpayers.

I'm hoping that budget does not add more burden on the backs of our taxpayers.

The figures produced fodder for her Republican foe, Chris Collins, who said the Hochuls have become millionaire's on the backs of taxpayers.

Thompson said Amedore is in favor of campaign finance reform of some sort, but «but not on the back of taxpayers.

«The enormous burden of unfunded and underfunded mandates is breaking the backs of taxpayers, counties and municipalities across the state,» Governor Cuomo said.

This would, in effect, transfer the responsibility for the payment of at least $ 40 million of commercial real estate taxes onto the backs of the taxpayers of New Paltz, Gardiner, Esopus and the rest of Ulster County over the next 25 years.

«We can not raise this funding on the backs of the taxpayers,» she said.

At that time, yes, the Mafia controlled, and was moving in the direction of making millions on the backs of the taxpayers of Ulster County, establishing illegal dumps, allowing roadside dumping, minimizing recycling, disregarding the needs for composting and generally not complying with state Department of Environmental Conservation regulations.

Seventy six percent of New Yorkers don't receive any tuition assistance at all, yet the New York City Democrats want to give illegal immigrants a free ride on the backs of taxpayers.

And let's not forget the Cappelli and Avalon tax breaks, the NR IDA give - aways, the bloated overtime and pension contracts which are breaking the backs of the taxpayers.

«The enormous burden of unfunded and underfunded mandates is breaking the backs of taxpayers, counties and municipalities across the state,» Cuomo said.

If the Republican legislators believe in limited government, the Constitution, not balancing budgets on the backs of taxpayers, and still support law enforcement, they would not have voted for this law.

Airport Authority Director Bill Fisher notes the project was not constructed on the backs of taxpayers.

Finally, the School Superintendents Association «research» into states with existing tax credit scholarship programs and how some «donors have been able to make a profit off the backs of taxpayers and ultimately kids.»

I cetainly wouldn't begrudge the man his juicy profits, as long as he isn't doing it on the backs of taxpayers.

Ahh yes, more people who want to make billions off the backs of the taxpayers of California.

The second camp often opposes efforts to subsidize U.S. oil and gas production, arguing that these fuels and their grave risks to the environment shouldn't get a free ride on the back of the taxpayer.

«Whether they keep making electricity or not, these gigantic steel and concrete structures will be there for generations, monuments to the greed of a few in a short - sighted land rush to hurry up and get them built and collect their profits off the backs of taxpayers before Uncle Sam wises up and shuts off this gravy train.»

Meanwhile the provincial governments send a fat cheque each year to the CMPA so it can provide unlimited, free, highly - expensive, Cadillac lawyering to affluent doctors - on the backs of taxpayers - including the working poor who can't afford (medical negligence) lawyers but are forced to pay the legal fees of the doctors who may have negligently hurt them.

The wrong people (the most well - heeled) are collecting welfare on the backs of taxpayers while the poor are beung told to «eat cake».

An overfunded CMPA on the backs of taxpayers is undermining justice.

Meanwhile, a new report from OSHA reveals that the cost for workplace injures has been shifted from employers onto the backs of taxpayers and injured workers.

The problem with bailing out these companies is that it's done on the backs of taxpayers and creates a system of crony capitalism.