Sentences with phrase «by taxpayers so»

Their positions either ought to be eliminated, or instead funded by taxpayers so they will be accountable to the public, not to environmental pressure groups.

Not exact matches

Proposals released so far are aimed at allowing these taxpayers to keep their income and property tax deductions by transforming them into something else.

Small - business owners really do have an advantage over average taxpayers, so don't let the opportunity to save money slip you by.

So for the great majority of the Canadian mortgage market, the risk of default is shouldered not by the banks, but by taxpayers.

The IG's report accused Shulkin's chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, of potential criminal conduct by making false statements and altering a document so that the VA could «improperly» pay for Shulkin's wife to travel to with him, at a cost to taxpayers of $ 4,312.

The new tax bill unveiled by Republicans is so simple that taxpayers will be able to file using a postcard, according to GOP lawmakers.

Whether income exceeds the threshold by $ 1 or by $ 999, the credit falls by the same $ 50, so earning a few more dollars could make a taxpayer worse off.

More than sixty - nine million taxpayers have already filed their returns for 2016 and more will do so by... Read more

«Government documents revealed that B.C. taxpayers have been fronting legal fees for at least six of Christy Clark's current and former employees in connection to the so - called «Quick Wins» scandal and the ongoing criminal investigation by Special Prosecutor David Butcher,» said David Eby, MLA for Vancouver Point Grey.

It's an «extra» tax imposed by the IRS to prevent wealthy taxpayers from taking advantage of so many credits and deductions that they effectively avoid paying any taxes at all.

so you have a bunch of fake Christians with a non profit / no tax paying cathedral going bankrupt, and another bunch of pagan laced above the law non tax paying ped protecting catholics buying a cathedral (notice i did nt say Christian), from a bailed out by taxpayers bank....

So are those fine people of that Charlton Athletic Fans Trust and their friends in the media telling us that basically no Olympic Stadium that was built with taxpayers money can be used by a professional football club ever?

But residents say they are upset about why Woodridge Elementary School District 68 chose to sell the land at a sealed bid when the park district asked the school district to consider selling it by another method so they could participate without risk of overbidding with the taxpayers «money.

He said: «People will find it hard to believe that Mr Cameron's decision to arrange his finances so that all of his mortgage debt was on a property funded by parliamentary allowances meant no extra cost to the taxpayer, as compared to continuing to share the debt between two properties.»

The Treasury Department audit of Innovate NY, reported by Newsday but so far ignored by other news media, highlights the pitfalls of using taxpayer funds to underwrite speculative investments in private firms.

It is tragic that the New York State Conservative Party violated their birthright by designating a liberal Republican, so the formation of the Taxpayers line is required.

So, in 2005, Silver awarded Taub's research center a $ 250,000 research grant from an $ 8.5 million pool of taxpayer money established by the state Health Care Reform Act — which was disbursed at the speaker's sole discretion with no public disclosure, court papers state.

Despite the group taking taxpayer money, the ERG has long refused to list its members — with Fernandes repeatedly declining to do so in what many described as a «car crash» Channel 4 News interview, hours after openDemocracy revealed that her organisation was funded by taxpayer cash.

Is it really too much to ask that fast - food workers should be given regular hours and fair pay, so that they can contribute by paying tax and national insurance that could not only be ploughed into our economy, but would also save the taxpayer a fortune in benefits payments?

GE had net operating losses at the height of the financial crisis that federal law allows them — and every other corporate taxpayer — to carry over to subsequent tax years so as not to unfairly burden it with the calendar set by bureaucracy.

But there is no situation so bad it can not be made worse, and Miliband has proceeded to achieve this by his proposal, if returned to power in 2015, to impose a # 5,000 cap on donations to political parties, with taxpayers stepping in to make up the shortfall.

One legislative adviser griped, «How many taxpayer dollars have been spent on the Moreland Commission just so they could propose a plan that was virtually identical to the one put forward by Governor Cuomo earlier this year?

The problem with this argument is that it would do little to help taxpayers in the North towns who are burdened by additional property taxes to cover the costs of so - called chargebacks from Niagara County Community College (NCCC).

The appointees «will focus exclusively on rooting out abuse and fraud by public officials so that New Yorkers can have confidence that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely and everyone is playing by the same set of rules,» he said.

«How many taxpayer dollars have been spent on the Moreland Commission just so they could propose a plan that was virtually identical to the one put forward by Governor Cuomo earlier this year?

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)- Governor Andrew Cuomo says taxpayers can soften the blow of the federal tax overhaul by paying some of their local property taxes now so they can deduct the payments from their 2017 federal taxes.

«While it is reassuring that the current Speaker has evidently cut expenditure by his office, how he and his staff spend taxpayers» money should be published as a matter of course so that it can be subject to proper scrutiny.

«I acknowledged the leadership of Barak Obama, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Blanche Lincoln and other brave Democrats by voting for a strong package of more government rules and regulations, designed so that banking disasters on Wall Street will never require taxpayer bailouts and kite the national debt, ever again.

«This helicopter is the first to be purchased by state police in nearly 15 years, will be done so at a significant savings to taxpayers, and be able to fulfill a greater range of missions, as well as have a greater capacity, than the aircraft it is replacing,» said state police spokesman William «Beau» Duffy.

Appointments made by the president so far show a «waste» of the taxpayers money, political science lecturer at KNUST, Dr. Edward Brenya said as he analysed the over a year - old Akufo - Addo's presidency.

So were attempts to add an emergency motion on Virgin's challenge for the west coast mainline franchise, and given the fiasco which exploded on Wednesday the CAC missed a golden opportunity to highlight the # 40 million of taxpayers» money wasted by government bungling.

BY FRANK GRANDEL President of Clarkstown Taxpayers What an utter disgrace once again by Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack at last week's Clarkstown Town Board meeting, taking the position as he so often does that a career politician's job is a «noble profession.&raquBY FRANK GRANDEL President of Clarkstown Taxpayers What an utter disgrace once again by Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack at last week's Clarkstown Town Board meeting, taking the position as he so often does that a career politician's job is a «noble profession.&raquby Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack at last week's Clarkstown Town Board meeting, taking the position as he so often does that a career politician's job is a «noble profession.»

Leibell doled out $ 6.5 million in so - called «member items,» funded by taxpayer dollars, to nonprofit groups that he himself controlled between 2005 and 2010, according to the New York Times.

Maroney and Jobson were presumably so scared of not receiving the one - man - band Conservative Party line in November handed out by Lettre to his puppets, that they voted against their own Republican caucus to spend another $ 2.5 million of taxpayers» money and send the Conservative Party Chairman home happy.

Speaking to the Financial Times, Mr Osborne said that a Tory administration would support a new levy on banks — so long as it could be agreed by G20 countries — to protect the taxpayer from the costs of a future crisis.»

And as taxpayers, we have to pay for a smoker's personal freedom — astronomical cancer rates, the filth of cigarettes butts so carelessly tossed about, and fires caused by cigarettes.

So the NEA's slush fund is in fact built by taxpayer dollars, which flow directly to the NEA instead of into the teacher's own bank account.

So the net benefit to state taxpayers was $ 101.5 million minus $ 66.1 million minus $ 7.4 million, which equals $ 27.9 million, depicted by the striped bar in Figure 4.

Levesque said she planned to sponsor a series of statewide reforms, like allowing taxpayer dollars to go to religious schools by overturning the so - called Blaine Amendment, «even if it doesn't pass... to keep them busy on that front.»

Unfunded liabilities do not arise so readily, and legislatures have less opportunity to enhance benefits by shifting costs to future generations of taxpayers and teachers.

So, too, will changes in the tax code that indirectly affect the incentives for charitable giving, e.g., a much high standard deduction would reduce still further the proportion of taxpayers that itemize their deductions and, therefore, are affected by the charitable deduction.

Incredible in life, perhaps the most disturbing truth of all about Diane Kaplan Devries» work is the uncomfortable fact that so many elected officials, often led by so - called Democrats, immorally and unethically sought to throw up barriers to stop Diane's critical effort to make sure that Connecticut's children got the education they needed, while ensuring that Connecticut's middle income property taxpayers were treated more fairly.

So how can policy makers, philanthropists, politicians, school leaders, parents, and taxpayers navigate the contradictory world of education policy, balance these trade - offs, and maximize their chances of doing right by kids?

«Charter schools are public schools, funded by local and state taxpayers, so it is important that accountability standards are based on fair comparisons,» says Mike Crossey, president of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Although Adamowski doesn't actually have the authority to «offer regional out - of - district» options to Windham students, funded by Windham taxpayers but not accessible to all students in an equitable manner, he is doing so anyway; Although Adamowski is not authorized to do so, he is eliminating bilingual education and putting a Band - Aid in its place; Although Adamowski doesn't have the authority to do so, he forced TFA on Windham; Although Adamowski doesn't actually have the authority to do it, he is interfering with other, non-Education Boards and Councils in the Town of Windham; Although Adamowski doesn't have the authority or power to do it, he has usurped the Board of Education completely and they have sat by and let it happen; Although Adamowski has no business interfering, he is trying to get charter reform that includes either mayoral control of the BoE or an appointed BoE in Windham.

So as a result of the policies being pushed by Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Connecticut teachers and students spent thousands of hours during the past school year prepping and taking the Connecticut Mastery Test and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.»

«It is written to serve the needs and desires of the charter school movement and the predators and profiteers that have unapologetically gained from this experiment,» The Tribune said, «not the people, parents, students, voters and taxpayers of school systems that have been decimated by a so - called reform movement that has done far more harm than good.»

Taxpayers in this town have no say over how our exorbitantly high dollars are being used to fund the incestuous relationship between Achievement First and NHPS.And since there seems to be no oversight or public input int the decisions made by our so called public school system we're forced to watch this corporation privatize what should at its core be a public good.

These neo-gilded age philanthropists claim that the solution is for parents, teachers and education advocates to step aside so that the billionaires and their groupies can transform public education by creating privately owned and operated — but taxpayer funded — charter schools.

According to the group's most recent filing with the State Ethics Commission (filed yesterday), the corporate funded education reform advocacy front group also spent $ 14,000 for subway sandwiches and $ 6,771 to Staples to pay for the signs demanding that Connecticut legislators hand over nearly $ 21 million in scarce taxpayer money so that the infamous Steve Perry can open a publicly funded, but privately owned charter school in Bridgeport and a Bronx, New York charter school chain can save Stamford by opening up a charter school there.