Sentences with phrase «costing the taxpayer even»

«The Convention held in 1967, which Chairman Michael R. Long participated in, was a colossal waste of taxpayers» money and if one was held now, it would cost taxpayers even more money and be controlled by the same special interests that already have a strong presence in the legislative process,» the party said in a statement.

States also spend millions trying to track down uninsured motorists and force them to buy insurance, and this in turn costs taxpayers even more.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

So, such company is saved, cost to the taxpayers isn't too extreme (selling price should cover most of the bailout, maybe even result in profit), owners would know that they aren't shielded in case of bad decisions, but will lose everything, and executives would know that they can forget about their golden parachutes.

«The Speaker's take - it - or - leave - it negotiating position is even more surprising given that the New York City Board of Elections said they would be forced to shell out untold taxpayer dollars to cover the overtime costs necessary to comply with holding just the congressional primaries in June.»

«However, we do know these proposals will dramatically increase costs for local county boards of election, putting even more pressure on taxpayers.

Could that result in even higher costs for taxpayers?

We are concerned that by allowing the IDC to remain an independent conference, the IDC would continue to earn extra stipends at cost to taxpayers for positions they often do not even hold.

«These numbers are further proof that Governor's tax cap is a success and they also demonstrate that even with a stricter 1.56 percent cap this year, the tax freeze is working as intended to encourage schools and local governments to cuts costs and provide relief to property taxpayers.

Even the Finnish reactor - much touted by the prime minister - has a guaranteed price for its output and a taxpayer commitment to deal with all waste after 60 years and with any overrun costs of decommissioning.

Cuomo said the new law is «even more critical» given a proposal by President Donald Trump to end deductions for state and local taxes, which Cuomo said could cost 950,000 local taxpayers a total of $ 4.3 billion, or $ 4,600 per taxpayer.

A NYC program for 560 low - level juvenile delinquents experienced «pervasive mismanagement» — even though it cost taxpayers $ 85,000 a year per child, a report from city Comptroller Scott Stringer's office says.

There is simply no time for a Select Committee, even if a full set of members is nominated to serve on it, to conduct any meaningful inquiries... The reality is that this will be another talking shop that costs taxpayers more money at the time that they can least afford it.»

AMHERST, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

Trump said he «didn't think» Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took a government jet from New York to Washington, DC, even though federal investigators are investing the flight that cost taxpayers $ 25,000.

The state comptroller moved this week to limit payments by the taxpayer - funded state - employes» health plan for what he described as «outrageously expensive specialty drugs» — which can cost the plan $ 1,000 per prescription, even though he said they're just combinations of inexpensive nonprescription drugs.

If approved, the new contract will add even more cost to what is becoming a hefty bill for taxpayers.

State and local governments across the country have long offered financial incentives to businesses to relocate or expand operations, although experts caution that taxpayers are unlikely to break even on deals where the cost of each job saved or created runs to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And back home Cameron is forging ahead with Private Finance Mark 2 where the private sector push even more of the risk and inflated cost back on to taxpayers.

Not voting tonight will not cost the taxpayers an «additional $ 250,000», his words, because what he conveniently omits from his public statements on the issue is that even if we do apply the premium to the deficit he is still going to be short of cash this year and he will still have to borrow money through short - term borrowing.

Offering his only climate change policy prescription of the evening, he added, «That's why I'm going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.»

When we look at food crises around the world, the citizenry and the government of the United States feel that it's in our interest to step up to the plate even if it ends up costing taxpayer money.

Space limits an extended discussion here, but we note two conclusions from a 2012 article by Economic Policy Institute researcher Monique Morrissey, who explains that «the logical implication of Richwine and Biggs's [pension] position is that public employers and taxpayers would be indifferent between current pension funding practices and investing in Treasury securities, even though this would triple the cost of pension benefits» and that R & B «selectively alternate between the cost of benefits to employers and the value to workers, and inappropriately equate the latter with the often much higher cost to individuals of obtaining equivalent benefits.»

Several months before the draft product of that initiative was even ready for inspection, he declared that that «I will not commit Texas taxpayers to... the adoption of unproven, cost - prohibitive national standards and tests.»

This amounted to a return of more than $ 2 for every taxpayer dollar spent and a social return of nearly $ 4 for every dollar spent.13 The social return included benefits such as improved skills and human capital, greater lifetime civic engagement, lower delinquency and criminal activity, and even improved health status for volunteers.14 Cost - benefit analyses of more than 50 individual AmeriCorps programs have yielded similar results.15

[Among the staffers bought out: The Department of Education's in - house security staff, who were replaced by U.S. Marshals (who DeVos prefers and who walk around with her even within the Department of Education's headquarters); the Marshals, who could be helping protect the nation instead of making DeVos feel safe, will cost taxpayers $ 15 million by the end of this fiscal year.]

It is deeply troubling that instead working to fix PA's public school funding crisis, many lawmakers are instead trying to advance the agenda of the school privatization lobby, which will create more costs for taxpayers and even deeper deprivation for students in public schools.

Given the millions of taxpayer revenues it would require to do even this, again for only 30 % of all teachers who are primarily elementary school teachers of primary subject areas, cost should certainly be of note on this one.

While he proposed cutting money for public schools and shifting even more of the costs of public education onto the backs of middle income property taxpayers, Malloy wanted the legislature to give him even more money so that his corporate education reform industry associates could open up two more charter schools in Connecticut.

And thanks to Malloy and Pryor, the Common Core freight train and the inappropriate Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment testing scheme will end up costing Connecticut taxpayers tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of dollars... while turning Connecticut's public schools into nothing more than testing factories.

More recently, the group sent out glossy mailings to voters in a number of Connecticut legislative districts «thanking them» for their pro-charter school vote — a vote that will actually end up costing state and local property taxpayers even more money.

Another credit downgrade promises even higher interest rates, more costs for taxpayers, and less of a chance that PA will ever have enough revenue to provide adequate funding to our public schools.

When you consider that teacher salaries are based on attaining additional degrees (which is often funded by districts and states) and not on performance, the costs of laggard ed schools borne by taxpayers are even greater.

Even if that's true, the cost to taxpayers at the state and local level will be significant.

What's new is that taxpayers may elect to claim the costs of reproductive technologies even where the treatment is not medically necessary.

Public education is one of the rights that people pay with the tax of all of todos (us), the taxpayers, logically resulting to be of no cost to the students, however, it is a financial problem for the neoliberal system, even though it represents a small percentage of the taxes, not comparable to the cost of salaries of government and bureaucracy, or equivalent to those proposed by international organizations.

Gingrich has a mystical faith in «carrots» as opposed to «sticks» even though they both cost money in the end (taxpayers ultimately pay for these mystical «carrots»).

At 3 kilowatts of solar cell capacity on each roof that will cost $ 15 to $ 20 billion at today's prices including all the subsidies that the taxpayer has to pay even if the home owner does not.

What warmists hate about Dr. Soon is the fact that his «irreducibly simple model» works, and even worse, cost taxpayers nothing, while the 70 + «The C02 Did - It» computer are laughably inaccurate and shockingly expensive.

Critically important, however, is the fact that the cost of this electricity to distribution companies and their electric customers would be even higher if it were not for the tax breaks received by the companies generating the «renewable» electricity — the costs of which are transferred to ordinary taxpayers.

The Interior Department is proposing to sell this coal at below cost and with no competition, even as studies report American taxpayers have lost $ 30 billion on Powder River Basin coal sales in the last 20 years.

Through this intentional alarmist false reporting, regional stagnations and even declines in temperature in Germany are getting obscured, and that at the cost of the taxpayer.»

Even the left - leaning Brookings Institution has trashed the agency's analysis — pointing out that the low - balled costs will be paid by American taxpayers, consumers, businesses and workers, whereas the highly conjectural benefits will be accrued globally.

Even without Zinke's planned offshore drilling expansion, the Government Accountability Office estimates that taxpayers» contingent liability in the Gulf of Mexico for decommissioning costs could be as much as $ 35 billion.

For example, I foresee it as much more politically likely that costs will be born by US taxpayers over oil companies with cosmically large profits, even though those companies were profiting from the very problem being addressed.

The debate has already begun as to whether Nevada law allows Gibbons to leapfrog the AG like this, even if it doesn't cost the taxpayers anything.

Two Democratic lawmakers are claiming that the Federal Housing Finance Agency failed to roll out a nationwide mortgage reduction principal plan for underwater home owners even though a pilot program the agency did two years ago showed that it could significantly trim taxpayers» costs.

Now, with prices projected to fall even further, and with new federal tax incentives greater than they've ever been — up to 30 % of the cost of the system for qualifying taxpayers - solar power will be on the rise.»