Sentences with phrase «does taxpayer support»

Similarly, how does taxpayer support of home - schoolers, who form a confederacy around the charter banner but rarely see one another, advance civic cohesion in suburban towns and rural areas?

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I would even agree with the sentiment — no monument, work of art, or decoration should be added to any state building unless there is a provision for preservation / cleaning made which does not involve taxpayer support.

Since it is a taxpayer supported program, there probably does need to be some accountability about the monies that are spent.

While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»

Cox said Gillibrand's explanation for her «no» vote — that the deal doesn't provide sufficient relief to the middle class and is fiscally irresponsible — doesn't ring true based on some of her past votes, including her support of preserving taxpayer funds to thw now - defunct ACORN (Schumer opposed that one).

Andrew Cuomo doesn't care that illegal immigrants that are here in this country kill innocent Americans everyday, driving intoxicated, street gangs, cheap labor off the books, fathering american children, taxpayers are flipping the bill here supporting them with housing, food stamps, medicaid, healthcare plus they're out there working off the books for cheap labor and they don't pay taxes.

Miner also drew support from state Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Republican, and other fiscal conservatives who do not appreciate spending taxpayer money without making a strong case.

Filmmaker Steve Cowan posted full transcripts of his interviews with Cuomo and Maffei on the film's website, which include Maffei's observation he supports public campaign finance «because it means the only people we'll have to worry about in our day are the taxpayers and constituents in our district, and that's what we're supposed to do.»

Cuomo, as he has done before, bashed the federal tax proposal as a «gross injustice» that will hurt taxpayers in California and the Northeast to the benefit of low - tax states — which generally support Republicans.

It's frightfully complicated and does not address the root causes of high taxes - costly mandates and a fundamental, long - term shift of the burden of supporting schools and municipalities from state to local taxpayers.

More than a dozen elected officials, planners, builders and environmentalists stood beside Mr. Bellone Monday to support the plan, urging taxpayers to do the same.

There's also some pushing back on the polling of public financing and the point Republican lawmakers make when saying taxpayers don't support public dollars going toward political activities.

Keep in mind that Cuomo has been expressing support for using taxpayer dollars to fund campaigns for years now — at least since he was running for governor in 2010 — but has not yet expended significant political capital to actually achieve that goal the way he did with similarly controversial issues like same - sex marriage (a supposed non-starter with the Senate Republicans) and Tier 6 (particularly unpopular with Democrats in both houses).

Poll after poll shows that these taxpayers strongly support the SALT deduction and oppose having their tax dollars finance the large tax cuts for companies and people who don't need them,» said the group's co-director, Bob Chlopak.

The new energy minister has today reiterated his support for building more nuclear power stations, but insisted it would not be done with taxpayers» money.

«I think campaign finance, $ 200 million, I'd rather take that money, put it into education and certainly many taxpayers throughout the state do not want to see that money going to individuals they do not support,» Skelos said.

For those who don't support the property tax cap, or believe that governments can't work under its limitation, we refer them to Cuomo, and point to the overburdened Westchester homeowner and taxpayer.

Teachout, on the other hand, does not support the property tax cap, which saved taxpayers $ 2.5 billion in 2015 and she advocates for a new tax on energy, which would cost residents on average of $ 1,700 a year.

She added she was «surprised that it's [ERG] being funded by taxpayers especially as it is a single issue organisation and would be of little use to a Conservative MP who doesn't support their views.»

For reasons I do not understand, the county executive has continually come out in support of borrowing through the county, despite hard evidence that the Control Board can save taxpayers money.

«The taxpayers of Westchester do not support slush funds for County Legislators,» said Minority Whip Gordon A. Burrows, (R - Yonkers).

I don't support gambling with or wasting taxpayer dollars.

Zimet nominated Marx, noting that, although she did not support his bid two years ago, once they began working together she was amazed by his work ethic, his respect for the Town Board, for the residents and how he ended up «doing much more than he signed up for, as we combined Buildings and Grounds with our Highway Department — at great savings to the taxpayers, but much more work for Chris, which he never complained about.

«I know personally I don't believe taxpayers should be paying for campaigns or individuals» campaigns who they may not support,» Skelos told me on June 19.

The district doesn't plan on cutting checks to taxpayers, instead planning on allocating a portion of the fund balance to support programming.

Instead of the government determining students» eligibility for financial aid, which can cause social division between those who receive aid and those who don't, Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab and Dr. Tammy Kolbe recommend that all students should be funded collectively under a taxpayer - supported universal public higher education system.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

He told me that as someone who accepts taxpayer - funded grants to support his work, he feels obligated to be clear about what he does.

But the flip side is that we should also reject chronically low - performing schools — those that don't prepare their young charges for success academically or otherwise — and deem them undeserving of taxpayer support.

And if taxpayers are asked to support perpetual benefits for a permanent underclass, don't we think they will eventually rebel?

To parents choosing among schools, to families deciding where to live, to taxpayers attempting to gauge the ROI on schools they're supporting, and to policy makers concerned with big - picture questions such as how their education system is doing when compared with those in another city, state, or country, that information is only marginally helpful — and potentially quite misleading.

«I don't want to support this from the standpoint that I don't want to risk alienating any of our taxpayer base, our referendum - voting community members.

Sick and twisted systems don't deserve taxpayer support, especially systems that can not get more than a third of their students performing at grade level for $ 20,000 a year.

Walker has said he supports subjecting all schools that receive taxpayer money to the same level of scrutiny and has supported legislation aimed at doing that in the past legislative session, including giving report cards to all public, charter and private voucher schools.

«We can espouse to do as many great things as we want,» board member Ben Cundiff said, «but until we change the mindset of the average taxpayer that it's worth paying more taxes to support education, we're never going to get where we want to with all of our students.»

Choice students do not attend public schools, but Milwaukee property taxpayers still support their costs.

Since Indiana taxpayers provide us all the financial support we receive, the least we can do is «buy Indiana»,» said Kevin Teasley, president of GEO Foundation, the non-profit that manages the three charter schools.

Not only did the district share proceeds with our charter school operators, their active support and participation were instrumental in the overwhelming support we received from taxpayers in November 2012.

True they are supporting legislation that undermines the rights of their own boards of education, local elected officials and taxpayers but they must know what they are doing.

Michele Rhee and those who are looking to make millions by allowing certain charter schools and other corporations to re-direct million in taxpayer dollars are here to make sure that a candidate who supports teachers and Connecticut's public schools doesn't get elected.

Jim Bender, president of the pro-voucher group School Choice Wisconsin, supports closing voucher schools that don't use taxpayer money responsibly but pointed to the difficulty in finding a model for evaluating school performance that various types of schools will accept.

Betsy DeVos said that she does not support equal accountability for all schools that receive taxpayer funds.

We support this bill because it is the right thing to do for our students, as well as a smart investment in our state's future that will cost taxpayers nothing.

If the corporate executives and hedge fund managers who support charter schools really want to create alternatives to the public schools system, then they should use their wealth to set up private schools and stop diverting taxpayer funds to schools that do not adhere to the standards and principles of our public schools.

We're committed to supporting taxpayers who want to do the right thing and preventing those who don't pay from gaining unfair financial advantage.

According to a mortgage regulator, «Freddie Mac has done a considerable amount on behalf of the American taxpayers to support the housing finance market since entering into conservatorship,» Freddie Mac spokesman Michael Cosgrove told Politico.

The DIF is invested in the market as well, but it receives no support from tax dollars, meaning that taxpayers do not bear the burden of deposit insurance.

We do not receive any government funding; we are not supported by taxpayers» dollars.

And - since I and other taxpayers have to pay for the result of that kind of ignorance and irrresponsibility by funding shelters and dealing with the overwhelming numbers of homeless animals, I absolutely DO have a right to demand mandatory spay / neuter laws and will support those kinds initiatives whenever possible, especially in my own community.

Of course, my tiny bit of distrust will not affect climate science directly, but as a citizen, voter and taxpayer I will oppose the climate change agenda, I will seek to have its funding reduced, and I support criminal investigation of climate scientists who take federal funding but do not comply with FOI requests and accountability for how those funds are spent.