Sentences with phrase «by public subsidies»

Turn around and sell fictive name plate energy credits to real energy producers, before they are allowed to market their actual electricity, and make huge amounts of money from installations that were paid for by public subsidies in the first place.

Not exact matches

Ending public subsidies would roughly cut overall party funding by 42 per cent for the Liberals, 56 per cent for the NDP, the Greens by 61 per cent and a whopping 77 per cent for the Bloc.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Instead, it was effectively offered a subsidy by the Fed at public expense.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Of course, subsidies are not by definition bad public policy.

If they want cheap places where they can express their religion, let them seek it in the «free market» and quit trying to force the government to pay for their private activities through subsidies, tax exemptions, resources like schools, public property of all sorts, or anything funded by government monies.

This is a fiscal worship by which Islam requires the well - to - do to care for the needs of the poor and to pay a subsidy to maintain public benefits like hospitals, educational institutions, and a defense force.

(d) in the above process booth capturing, fake voting, impersonification of votng can't take place.only genuine voters will cas votes.3 - to check the proliferation of BPL and other benefits / subsidies the account no, property deeds, vehicles and other valuables bought and sold by the head of the family and the dependants (unmarried) be united into single account.4 - Private engineering college, medical college, international schools, public schools should be marginalised, they should be there but to be strictly controlled about capitation fee and in matter of salary to employees.5 - Every corruption starts in village on CONSTRUCTION WORK (drain, approach road, swearege, deepening of ponds and wells, indira awas, boundaries and rooms of club, schools, community hall, drinking water pipeline drainage etc).

Even the sizable reduction of subsidies to public utilities announced by the new Energy Minister, will be targeted to high - income areas.

Who exactly is getting the $ 7 billion in public tax breaks and subsidies handed out by various state programs and hundreds of local Industrial Development Authorities?

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April 1.

By «submerged state» Mettler means a set of indirect government subsidies and benefits whose size and beneficiaries, indeed whose very existence, is largely invisible to the public.

The savings come from reduced costs for public assistance to low - wage workers — in effect a taxpayer subsidy to large low - wage employers — and increased tax payments by workers benefiting from the wage hike.

He points to a letter that Cuomo to former chair Audrey Zibelman, in her capacity as CEO of the Department of Public Service, directing her to open a proceeding on getting the state to 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 and providing the nuclear subsidies.

A report by the Commons» energy and climate change committee published today warns that government proposals will effectively provide subsidies to nuclear generators - despite the coalition agreement only permitted new nuclear power stations «provided they receive no public subsidy».

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

A handful of family - centered proposals are part of the women's agenda, including investments in prekindergarten and after - school programs, increasing child care subsidies by $ 7 million, continuing the child care tax credit and requiring all new or renovated buildings with public bathrooms to be equipped with diaper changing stations.

Reached by phone, Parkash insisted his buildings are in good shape and that he has never gotten public subsidies or tax benefits.

«Without access to housing subsidies provided by the City, as well as resources such as public housing and consistent access to supportive housing, far too many homeless young people are at significant risk for violence, abuse and exploitation.»

«If the project is funded by skimming property tax revenue that would have been collected anyway, that's a plain old subsidy that comes at the cost of other public priorities in the city budget.»

We stand by our original campaign — massive billion dollar public subsidies have public responsibilities and the construction workforce deserves to be able to afford to live in the city in which they work.»

Delegates buoyed by Vince Cable's colourful and blistering attack on the Tories this morning asked the deputy prime minister tricky questions regarding losing «the soul» (Clegg's words) of the Liberal Democrat Party via being associated with government measures such as the «bedroom tax» (defended and carefully referred to as the «spare bedroom subsidy» by Clegg), the notorious immigration vans and public spending cuts.

Conservatives, by contrast, are committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations provided they are subject to the normal planning process for major projects (under a new national planning statement) and provided also that they receive no public subsidy.

Mr Horwood's hope that new nuclear builds would require public subsidy - which both the previous and current governments have made clear they are opposed to - has been questioned by the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA).

Cuomo insults the legacy of his late father, liberal icon Mario Cuomo, by claiming that businesses paying the minimum wage «steal» $ 2 billion from taxpayers because their workers can get government subsidies, according to Empire Center for Public Policy President E.J. McMahon.

By way of example, Mr. Stringer said that Chicago's public housing system receives $ 3,500 in federal energy subsidies per unit, whereas New York's obtains just $ 101.

NOTE: Flanagan's bill was this morning amended to expand the funds available for nuclear subsidies to all of those funds now handled by NYSERDA under section 1854 of the Public Authorities Law.

Citi Bike has so far been backed by corporate sponsorship, not public subsidies, but the DOT will soon be talking with Motivate about ways to expand the bike sharing system, according to the agency.

New Yorkers get very little in return for the $ 7 billion in public subsidies given out to corporations by our state's economic development programs in exchange for job creation projects every year.

Now a bill at the council, introduced by council members Annabel Palma and Oliver Koppell at the request of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., would require any developer that receives public subsidies to pay a living wage to every employee on the premises.

Exelon gave Gov. Andrew Cuomo credit for helping facilitate the transaction by asking the state Public Service Commission to adopt a Clean Energy Standard that included subsidies for upstate nuclear.

Swierczewski said he hoped the PACB could schedule another meeting by year's end to vote again on the Lighthouse Point subsidies, as well as $ 1.85 million for an office complex in downtown Albany that, according to Conwall, ESD held back because it needed to analyze the results of a public hearing.

Among her plans of what she'd like to accomplish once elected: Promote / support bills in Congress that adopt clean sources of energy by helping to end the intricate system of public subsidies that keep dirty sources of energy artificially cheap, and promote renewable sources: solar, wind, and hydro; Protect waterways / drinking supply by reducing the risk of contamination and ensure that when contamination is found, the responsible parties are held accountable; Fight for public financing of elections; Work every day to overturn Citizens United.

«This bill will ensure that building owners benefiting from public subsidies do not undercut private enterprise by paying wages below the predominant private - sector rate.

Iran's 2010 reform was welcomed by the IMF and, at least initially, by the Iranian public, while halving the world's largest energy - subsidy burden, valued at around $ 100 billion or a quarter of the 2010 gross domestic product.

The cost of this spectacle is not fronted by the public — not via taxation, anyway, although subsidies are a different matter.

A study published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in public money.

But it could appeal to large numbers of students and be offered at such a low cost that it could be affordable even to low - income families without needing public subsidy or adoption by the public school system.

The paper, by Harvard education professor David Deming and University of California - Berkeley economist Christopher Walters, seeks to determine what is the most effective use of public subsidies to help more students graduate college.

By charging tuition, progressives argued that the system could bring in more resources from students who could afford to pay, while enabling any given level of public subsidies to go further by targeting assistance to the neediest (including efforts to reduce pre-college disparities in achievementBy charging tuition, progressives argued that the system could bring in more resources from students who could afford to pay, while enabling any given level of public subsidies to go further by targeting assistance to the neediest (including efforts to reduce pre-college disparities in achievementby targeting assistance to the neediest (including efforts to reduce pre-college disparities in achievement).

She also dragged out the tired argument that the gap between rich and poor will be exacerbated by «giving a public subsidy to affluent families that choose elite private schools, which are unlikely to admit students who struggle academically or can not afford tuition even with a voucher.»

It concluded: «Despite over a billion dollars in public subsidies for private schools since the programs» inceptions, there is no central reckoning of administrative or programmatic expenditures by either SOs or the private schools that voucher students attend.»

It is intentionally designed to mislead the public by making a government subsidy for private schools funded through a corporate tax break look like philanthropy.

But the premium for the insurance is not paid for by the government, it's paid for by the individual and / or the employer, and government subsidies: «Public health insurance in Japan is currently financed through individual contributions, employer contributions, and government subsidies.»

Its new president, Davide Croff, a former banker, is trying to rationalise the event both financially (by encouraging private finance to supplement a dwindling public subsidy) and curatorially by creating a three - year plan in which the two Spanish women will be followed by a New Yorker, Robert Storr, in 2007.

Local produce would be competitive if not for fossil fuel subsidies and the fact that climate change damages and costs, due to fossil fuels, are also borne by the public.

Yet as Dr Phillips notes, instead of protecting the public, governments are actually complicit by encouraging wind farm development via generous subsidies.

Keitho makes a sound general point: Firms can often profit by tapping subsidy streams from the public till.

This can be built by investing the savings in national priorities right now while clearly communicating to the general public that the new investments — regardless of whether they fund a new school, hospital, bridge, direct cash transfer, or subway line — are made possible because of subsidy savings.