Sentences with phrase «costing taxpayers billions»

Everyone knows that politically driven policies are costing taxpayers billions while providing only marginal carbon reductions — but we need leaders who will do something about it!

«While the Governor himself was operating a pay - to - play government to line his campaign coffers, his top aide followed his boss» model to line his own pockets, both costing taxpayers billions.

A second time, in 1979, was a back - office glitch that ended up costing taxpayers billions of dollars.

«Our report shows how alcohol takes up a disproportionate share of emergency service time, costing taxpayers billions of pounds each year.

-- The Mormon ti - the empire is tax exempt as are all Christian «religions» and evangelical non-profits costing the taxpayers billions a year in tax revenue.

The previous one cost taxpayers billions.

A fiscal watchdog group is questioning the state's century - old prevailing wage law for construction workers, saying it unnecessarily costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year in added expenses for big road, bridge and other projects.

«There is an economic rationale for taxes when consumption of the good imposes negative externalities, and obesity costs taxpayers billions each year in medical care costs in the U.S.,» Cawley said.

And early this month a study of 10,000 teachers by the nonprofit TNTP said that teacher workshops and training that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year is largely a waste (although some critics took issue with the methodology of the study).

Forbes describes some of the past green - jobs fiascos promoted by the Obama Administration that cost taxpayers billions while creating no lasting jobs:

This policy came from a study that only cost the taxpayers a billion dollars - cheap.

The output of computer models have cost the taxpayers billions of dollars and seem to drive policy decisions.

In 2014, 55 House Republicans inveighed against a government subsidy which «has not only cost taxpayers billions, but has caused significant price distortions in wholesale electricity markets.»

In 2006 ethanol subsidies were costing the taxpayer billions of dollars in addition to what they paid at the pumps.

Soros opines that exposure to the criminal justice system is potentially more detrimental to a young person than marijuana itself, that enforcing marijuana laws costs taxpayers billions while benefiting only foreign drug kingpins, and that laws against marijuana, from their inception, have been motivated by racial prejudice.

A broad consensus of studies finds that divorce has serious negative lifelong psychological consequences for children, and costs taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

«That was a catalyst for the savings and loans crisis that cost taxpayers billions.»

Not exact matches

These programs cost taxpayers $ 4.6 billion last year.

The government's plan to reduce the small business tax rate to 9 % means Ottawa is foregoing $ 5 billion in annual tax revenue, according to Lanthier, and that other taxpayers will have to bear those costs.

In his string of tweets, Trump argued that Amazon was costing taxpayers «billions of dollars» for using the Post Office as its «delivery boy.»

The war in Afghanistan, going on 17 years now, is the longest - running war in US history and costs American taxpayers about $ 3.1 billion a month.

Beginning with the auto bailout, which the administration now claims cost taxpayers $ 9.3 billion but saved more than a million jobs, Obama doubled down on his commitment to manufacturing, setting a goal of doubling American exports between 2009 and 2014.

Even worse, the cost of carrying these well organized groups is very much understated: nearly all the public - sector pension plans are underfunded by hundreds of billions of dollars and taxpayers are on the hook for the difference.

President Obama visited Iowa last August during the region - wide drought that decimated crops and cost U.S. taxpayers around $ 20 billion.

As far as Clinton's program goes, the brief predicts the program would cost taxpayers — including business owners — $ 20 billion over a decade.

Bush's speech came just six weeks after the US invaded Iraq, but the war dragged on for years after, costing thousands of lives and billions in taxpayer money.

Called the James Webb Space Telescope, the bus - sized, infrared - seeing spacecraft — often delayed and well over-budget — may ultimately cost taxpayers nearly $ 9 billion.

Almost $ 3 billion was deployed last year to growing companies at no cost to taxpayers.

[1] But, with the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts in place, an estimated 23 million taxpayers will owe AMT in 2007, and reducing that figure to 2 - 3 million will cost $ 51 billion — more than three times as much.

This time, the president reinforced his assessment that Amazon's business is costing taxpayers «many billions of dollars» through subsidized rates at the United States Post Office.

Third, Medicaid expansion could cost Louisiana taxpayers up to $ 1.7 billion over the first 10 years of implementation, and the cost will keep rising.

If Congress had not enacted the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, 10 million taxpayers would owe the AMT in 2007, according to estimates by the Urban Institute - Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center; reducing the number of affected taxpayers to several million, as the House - passed AMT «patch» bill would do, would have cost less than $ 15 billion.

In the event of a major spill, taxpayers would likely be responsible for shouldering most of the cleanup cost, which could easily surpass $ 10 billion, according to the advocacy group CRED.

It would cost taxpayers an additional $ 3 to $ 5 billion to avoid an election at this time.

This option would cost $ 174.9 billion over 10 years (figure 1) and would reduce the number of AMT taxpayers by more than 3.7 million (figure 2).

Bailing out GM cost taxpayers $ 11.3 billion, according to the Treasury Department.

The annual cost to women, their families, taxpayers and the health care system runs into billions of dollars.

This reform option would cost $ 356.1 billion over 10 years and would reduce the number of AMT taxpayers to about 500,000.

McDonald's and low - wage employers everywhere are making billions of dollars in profit and pushing off costs onto taxpayers, while leaving people like us — the people who do the real work — struggling to survive.

«The war on cannabis costs U.S. taxpayers $ 3.6 billion per year.

Budget analysts told Mr. Alexander that, according to preliminary estimates, making the cost - sharing payments upfront will save taxpayers $ 32 billion over the next three years in lower exchange subsidies.

This week Premier Clark went to New York to tell reporters there that the cost estimate has increased by another $ 600 million to $ 8.5 billion, despite previously assuring taxpayers the price wouldn't be going up further.

Doing so would only affect about 4 percent of taxpayers who benefit from it but would slash 15 percent of the $ 77 billion cost to the government.

If that rate holds, that means an eventual $ 61 billion additional, annual interest cost to taxpayers.

Citigroup received the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of finance from 2008 through 2010: $ 45 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds; over $ 300 billion in asset guarantees; and more than $ 2 trillion in low cost loans.

Except that this great deal is going to hurt our auto parts manufacturing so much that it's going to cost the taxpayers of Canada another $ 1 billion to compensate them.

High - priced government workers cost taxpayers in Illinois $ 10 billion a year, with municipal managers in areas surrounding Chicago reaping the most benefits.

It would jeopardize hundreds of billions of dollars each year in new debt financing, and would push more construction and labor costs onto local taxpayers.

«Previous governments in Alberta and Ottawa offered to provide a subsidy of $ 779 milliontoward the $ 1.4 - billion price tag for TransAlta's proposed coal - fired carbon capture and storage project, but even with taxpayers shouldering more than half the cost, there wasn't a viable business case and the project was shelved.

Estimates for longer - term rebuilding costs will take weeks or month to prepare, but the magnitude of the disaster could rival or exceed the damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which cost taxpayers $ 110 billion.