Sentences with phrase «divert tax dollars»

Senate advances bills to divert tax dollars to faith - based anti-abortion counseling centers without requiring medically accurate counseling.

They urged legislators to oppose HB 1288 and SB 632, which divert tax dollars to faith - based anti-abortion counseling centers, and to support two proactive bills: HB 1499, which will increase access to long - acting reversible contraception (LARC) for MO HealthNet patients, and SB 803 and HB 1627, which restricts the practice of shackling pregnant people in jails and prisons.

Senate committee hears bill to divert tax dollars to faith - based anti-abortion counseling centers without requiring medically accurate counseling.

Given his advocacy of efforts to divert tax dollars from traditional public schools to charters and virtual schools, some press in Utah have questioned whether Stephenson is a public servant or a lobbyist for outside interests.

«But Espada's constituents in the Bronx are sick of him siding with landlords over tenants and diverting their tax dollars to fund his personal schemes.

«A recent bipartisan poll commissioned by TSTA showed that Texans overwhelmingly oppose diverting tax dollars to vouchers and instead favor tapping into the Rainy Day Fund to increase spending for under - funded neighborhood public schools.»

But, he's still diverting tax dollars to fund pet projects for his corporate backers.»

Diverting Tax Dollars to Faith - Based Anti-Abortion Counseling Centers: The House and Senate each advanced companion bills, HB 1288 and SB 632, that divert $ 3.5 million tax dollars to faith - based anti-abortion counseling centers.

Not exact matches

For instance, during the recent stimulus bill, Billions of dollars in federal tax dollars were diverted to states to cover budget shortfalls, which had the indirect effect of preventing municipalities from declaring bankruptcy.

As a consequence, billions of tax dollars were wasted or diverted into the pockets of private citizens.

If we'd divert the OVER $ 150 billion dollar tax break that religion gets in this country every year, and divert it to the CURES for these maladies, we wouldn't NEED condoms!

«Property taxpayers paying for village, town and county services should not have their hard - earned tax dollars diverted to subsidize the M.T.A. through this payroll tax,» said Martins at the press conference.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

Much of the debate has turned on whether or not school - choice programs yield improved educational outcomes and what happens to students who are left behind in schools struggling to cope after tax dollars have been diverted elsewhere.

As amicus curiae in many federal and state courts, NSBA continues to urge courts to refrain from joining a troubling wave of nationwide efforts to divert public tax dollars away from public schools to fund private entities.

«Those options do not divert federal dollars to non-public schools as vouchers and tuition tax credits do, and are effective in expanding opportunities for students and can help schools in their efforts to serve our nation's 50 million public school students.»

Voucher schools, which are primarily religious in nature, are yet another system of schools funded by public tax dollars diverted from public schools.

According to Hassan, «The voucher tax credit is bad public policy for public education in New Hampshire and our taxpayers, diverting millions of dollars in taxpayer money with no accountability or oversight to religious and private schools.»

This is the same type of work - around Florida uses to divert dollars to Step Up for Students Corporate Tax Credit vouchers.

He also said it unconstitutionally diverts local tax dollars to private schools.

This voucher program diverts much needed tax dollars from our the state's constitutionally - guaranteed public schools and we feel that is a disservice to our more than one million students enrolled in our public schools.

Expanding the program would divert even more tax dollars from public schools, continuing Wisconsin's recent and disturbing trend of underfunding public education.

Amisha Patel, the Executive Director of the Grassroots Collaborative said that the budget «leaves hundreds of millions of dollars on the table and continues to underresource Chicago neighborhood schools at the expense (sic) of charter and magnet schools» and alleged that «Every year CPS continues to allow tax increment financing funds to divert critical resources away from schools.»

School privatization would result in tax dollars being diverted from creating small classes, hiring excellent teachers, offering comprehensive resources, and many, many more areas proven to improve student learning.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

These programs already divert $ 125 million business tax dollars out of the general fund and into private and religious schools, leaving less money to fund investments in public schools that educate 90 % of Pennsylvania's children.

School vouchers are education tax dollars that are diverted from public schools to help subsidize the tuition of private and religious schools.

Tax dollars will be diverted to outside companies in the areas of test development, exam security and data analysis.

Instead of requiring fuel efficiency, or funding mass transit, we could have our cake, or in this case corn, and drive cars with it too, and, in the process, divert millions of tax dollars a year to farm states.

Think of the countless people who have died thanks to all that money being diverted from their care to the pockets of land owners and people like Musk (who is the worlds largest recipient of tax dollars).

limit) the flow of information to voters; attempts to characterize dissent as psychological deviance; questioning the motives of those who dare to disagree; diverting massive amounts of tax dollars to the cause; ignoring inconvenient facts and opinions; the partnership between progressive government and progressive NGOs, etc..