Sentences with phrase «billions of taxpayers»

The multi billions of taxpayers» dollars spent on desalination plants in Australia at the behest of Flim - Flam Flannery, self proclaimed climatological seer, predicting dam - filling rainfall would be a thing of the past, might be a case in point.

Illegal, you say... Yeah, about as illegal as them handing over 10s of billions of taxpayers» money to bondholders during the banking crisis, I'd say?!]

It declares that Obama «has stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline» and «has wasted billions of taxpayers» dollars by subsidizing favored companies like Solyndra, which generated bankruptcies rather than kilowatts.»

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

Justin Trudeau wants to hand billions of taxpayer dollars to Texas oil execs — so they can force a pipeline to the B.C. coast.

The government propped up the teetering financial system with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, including aid that directly benefited his former company.

Besides opening up the jails and Guantanamo, Obama will be leaving Trump with a bunch of other fiascos he created that will take years to fix and billions of taxpayer dollars to remedy.

Kleck just learned that almost immediately after the publication of his study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that receives more than $ 11 billion of taxpayer money every year, conducted its own study of the matter.

A taste: Declaring the age of paternalism over, President Bush said Thursday the United States demands clear results for the billions of taxpayer dollars it sends to Africa.

Billions of taxpayer money wasted on wind turbines and solar power.

If you knew that there was one thing you could do to save billions of taxpayer dollars that could go to feed the hungry, house the homeless, research cures for other devastating diseases, provide health care to the poor, would you do it?

HM Revenue and Customs lost up to # 1.74 billion of taxpayers» money in tax credit fraud, error and overpayments, according to official figures published yesterday.

The Commons public accounts committee will say on Wednesday that ministers have staked billions of taxpayer funds on the untested housing strategy and violated Treasury guidelines.

Making a thing illegal literally creates crime, and the «war on drugs» has been a disastrous waste of time, resources and billions of taxpayer dollars.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

I think that what that amounts to is that they're building a good foundation with the budget in dealing with the so - called» 5 - billion dollar surplus,» more better said $ 5 billion of taxpayer's money.»

Reports on the Audit Service's website (www.ghaudit / org) show that by 2014, under President Mahama, over GH cents 5 billion of taxpayers» money spent could not be accounted for and nothing has been done by the Mahama Government to trace and retrieve these funds.»

«We spend well above $ 150 billion of taxpayers» money.

It may shock many readers to learn that more than # 13 billion of taxpayer's money is spent on sickness and incapacity benefits for people of working age, as pointed out by minister for disabled people Mike Penning this week.

For example, we have established a Green Investment Bank - which will take # 3 billion of taxpayers» money and use it to lever in several multiples of that from the private sector to build our green infrastructure.

RBS was bailed out by # 45 billion of taxpayers» money, leaving the government holding an 81 % stake in the bank.

In the Commons he asked: «Can the prime minister confirm that the Government have now lent # 24 billion of taxpayers» money to that small mortgage bank?

«This project was ill - conceived from the beginning and has already flushed billions of taxpayer dollars down the drain.»

Some of those payloads, presumably, would launch on NASA's in - development mega-rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which is slated for its first test flight in 2019 or 2020 and has to date consumed more than $ 18 billion of taxpayer funds.

While the federal government does not collect data on the graduation rates of students who receive Pell grants, an investigation by the Hechinger Institute suggests that billions of taxpayer dollars are going to students who never earn degrees.

He once spoke movingly about the virtues of NCLB, calling it «an effort to end decades of failed federal education policy that allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be spent without insisting on results for students» But that was before Boehner had to corral a caucus full of Tea Party - backed freshmen.

We didn't spend $ 5 billion of taxpayer money for incremental change.»

Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

I don't speak for ConnCAN but I agree with them that our education system spends billions of taxpayer dollars without satisfactory educational returns.

The waste of billions of taxpayer dollars on testing, test security, test shredding, intrusive data systems and test - score teaching ratings is a violation of the public trust.

«They want to give waivers to states that have not — and apparently never intended — to educate their students despite receiving billions of taxpayer dollars to fulfill this most basic of promises to our children.»

Florida has channeled billions of taxpayer dollars into scholarships for poor children to attend private schools over the past 15 years, using tax credits to build a laboratory for school choice that the Trump administration holds up as a model for the nation.

Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Government is going to lose $ 170 billion of taxpayer money over student loan programs in the next ten years.

Seized by the federal government in 2009, Fannie Mae has required $ 84 billion of taxpayer funds to remain solvent.

Polls show that despite hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars squandered on global - warming alarmism, the American public still refuses to widely accept the man - made warming theories advanced by an increasingly discredited UN and its allies.

In fact, the companies that have received huge subsidies have been «green» energy scams like Solyndra, First Solar and Fisker, who had political connections with the White House and allow billions of taxpayer money to be wasted through crony capitalism.

If it succeeds it will not only be condemning citizens across Europe to more health impacts from air pollution, it will be throwing billions of taxpayer euros down the drain.

This recent post via Real Climate Science on NASA tampering of Sea - level rise highlights the blatant malfeasance that these government funded institutions will undertake in order to push the man - made global warming climate change agenda, and keep the «Greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud in history» rolling and the billions upon billions of taxpayer funds flowing...

Despite the U.S. Congress passing the Consolidated Appropriations Act in December 2015 to slather another $ 9.3 billion of taxpayer credits on new solar power added to the electrical grid, California solar installments peaked in 2015 and are now headed south.

$ 3 billion of taxpayer money going to dictatorship led 3rd world countries, all without ever having been approved by the taxpayers representatives.

Across the world, anti-CO2 fundamentalists and global warming alarmists have pushed governments to divert billions of taxpayer monies into useless «green» energy projects that are expensive and unreliable generators of power - plus being a honeypot of corruption.

Wrapping its talking points in patriotic rhetoric, API's real intent is to continue getting billions of taxpayer dollars each year to corporations like ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron, which rank among the most profitable companies in the world.

Despite the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on both the global warming research and associated IPCC reports, the «consensus expert» climate change predictions have been spectacularly wrong.

Conning the public to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars into a human - loathing Cause to bring about the destruction of our societies and civilization SHOULD COST THEM SOMETHING.

However, now that they are in the public domain, lawmakers have an obligation to determine the extent to which the so - called «consensus» of global warming, formed with billions of taxpayer dollars, was contrived in the biased minds of the world's leading climate scientists.»

How much more than that will we all pay in increased insurance premiums, costs to rebuild and recover the economy after each fire and flood, increased costs due to health impacts and reduced agricultural yields, not to mention billions of taxpayer $ $ wasted on the dud «Direct Action» policy.

We need to move beyond this antiquated Farm Bill that spends billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize environmentally destructive commodity crops that feed factory farms and junk food companies.

if you went to a cardiologist and there were no engineers, the cardiologist would tell you of an irregular heartbeat and say sorry there is nothing we can do.really an absurd arguement... keep talking about the money and remember: «The US Government has spent more than $ 79 billion of taxpayers» money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, blah blah blah and you know where this came from so i leave out the note peace, rich

Despite governments squandering hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars per year on «climate» schemes, much of the public sees through the charade — so much so that the UN and its power - hungry «member states» understand that their radical dream of a global «climate» regime controlling every facet of human existence is on the verge of slipping out of reach.

The overall aim is to preserve financial stability even in times of crisis while making it unnecessary to use billions of taxpayer money to rescue so called «systemically important» banks — banks whose collapse would put a serious threat to financial market stability.