Sentences with phrase «buy public goods»

I don't really have a problem with vouchers; they're just another incarnation of government using taxpayer dollars to buy public goods or services from the private sector — from Pell grants to help pay tuition at private colleges, to county contracts with social services providers, to weapons and uniforms for the armed services.

Not exact matches

What's more, a white paper out Tuesday from e-commerce company PayPal, which went public last week, sheds light on the enormous middle class who seem to still be buying, with a particular focus on U.S. - made goods sold online.

So Europeans and Asians see U.S. companies pumping more and more dollars into their economies, not only to buy their exports in excess of providing them with goods and services in return, and not only to buy their companies and commanding heights of privatized public enterprises without giving them reciprocal rights to buy important U.S. companies (remember the U.S. turn - down of Chinas attempt to buy into the U.S. oil distribution business), and not only to buy foreign stocks, bonds and real estate.

To buy unnecessary and excessively luxurious goods, and to do it in a public way, buttresses one's reputation as a man or woman of leisure and erects a symbolic barrier against the reeking working classes.

We put too high a premium on those things we can buy for ourselves as individuals while resenting the taxes which provide public goods such as mass transit, schools, social security, and welfare but which do not directly benefit us.

Union leaders have responded by arguing the government would be better advised maintaining investment in the public sector, which educates and trains its workforce, buys many private sector goods and services and provides vital infrastructure.

The plan would expand current state standards to include all goods and products and procurements when it comes to buying American, not just construction and maintenance of public works.

The CCS is responsible for managing the procurement of common goods and services, so public sector organisations with similar needs can achieve value by buying as a single customer.

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) was established to bring together policy, advice and direct buying so that commercial services and goods could become available to the public sector at a reduced cost.

Unlike a real bubble, we never want to buy in, yet somehow we end up holding the goods anyway, in this case through our public institutions.

But Lepofsky, who is blind, says Ontarians with disabilities still face too many barriers when they try to get a job, ride public transit, get an education, use the health care system, buy goods and services or eat in restaurants.

Many (probably most) trade mark lawyers think that ought to be the rule... So the public would be surprised to know (and perhaps somewhat resentful of the fact) that the law of the EEA is such that if genuine goods are available outside Europe, much cheaper than they are here, traders can not buy them and import them for sale here, unless the trade mark owner has consented.