Sentences with phrase «courtesy of the taxpayer»

Stories about the Lords «clocking in'to pick up their daily tax - free # 300 allowance and MPs getting not one but two free iPads courtesy of the taxpayer didn't help shift the now permanent suspicion that MPs are out for every paperclip they can scrounge.

Because of a parliamentary procedure that allows the Democratic majority to gavel into session and immediately gavel out without taking up a single bill, Senator Oppenheimer took a futile, all expenses paid trip to Albany courtesy of taxpayers.

Courtesy of the taxpayer, corporations are sitting on $ 2 trillion in cash and bankers and hedge - fund managers are getting big bonuses.

The payment from one school, the one that sold for $ 1, amounted to $ 1,325,666 per year, courtesy of the taxpayers.

Now we shall be able to enjoy looking at 1.2 million receipts from greedy MPs who have lined their pockets and furnished their homes courtesy of the taxpayer.

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That's because the majority of the increased budget has been earmarked for taxpayer assistance, including hiring up to 1,000 additional customer service representatives to cut down phone waits for answers to tax questions and reduce the number of «courtesy disconnects» by an overloaded IRS switchboard.

In a taxpayer - funded effort to make accused criminals happier in court, low - level defendants in Manhattan are being paid with gift cards to rate the courtesy of judges and prosecutors — even the temperature of the courtroom.

«The governor says, «Hey, people who committed felonies and are in jail should get a free college education courtesy of the property taxpayers of the state and income tax payers.»

Together, Pryor and his two top charter school lieutenants are earning about $ 500,000 in salary and benefits, courtesy of Connecticut's taxpayers.

Image courtesy of user Maialisa on Pixabay.com Iowa allows taxpayers to take an extra itemized deduction for charitable mileage.

The killing of Bucksnort the performing dog netted her owners an $ 18,000 motor home - courtesy of Orange County taxpayers.

We are watching that process play out, for instance, and the Vogtle plant, currently under construction in Georgia — where, with the familiar pattern of cost overruns, and construction snafus, it seems possible that taxpayers will be taking yet another bath, courtesy of the nuclear industry.

Another reminder of Peterson's «professionalism» is this political cartoon he made portraying climate scientists holding different published opinions as «nutters», while working on the taxpayer's dime, courtesy of the Climategate emails in 2009: