Sentences with phrase «dollar of taxpayer money»

But hey... we're only paying these out - of - state consultants a million dollars of our taxpayer money so maybe we deserve the «B» team.
Districts were compelled to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money on a set of standards and resources that were never tested or proven effective.
Over the last two years the HPSD has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on lawsuits trying to stop the popular charter school from expanding to 8
Planned Parenthood's 800 clinics receive more than 300 million dollars of taxpayer money annually.
«Probably millions of dollars of taxpayer money going to research the issue and they come up with a qualitative maybe there's an issue there?
«When you look at the fact that Eric spent four years and over a million dollars of taxpayer money investigating myself and others and the result was a minor misdemeanor charge, it was clearly political retribution,» Maziarz insisted.
«Billions of dollars of taxpayer money. . .
Today, Connecticut is dumping $ 100 million dollars of taxpayer money into charter schools every year with little to no oversight and the governor's proposed budget contains funding for an additional four.
A now - bankrupt solar energy company flushed half a billion dollars of taxpayer money down the toilet — after President Obama said it was a poster child of the new green economy.
All that happened is we had a pointless cultural war for a year and wasted 100 million dollars of taxpayer money fighting over it.
What if the provincial governments quit turning over hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money so that affluent doctors (like the self - confessed sexual predator chronicled in today's National Post) can enjoy unlimited, free CMPA lawyering.
Over the last two years the HPSD has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on lawsuits trying to stop the popular charter school from expanding to 8th grade from a K - 6 school.
Council is now faced with the choice of having someone else — someone not elected to be mayor — serve out the rest of Ford's term, or spending several million dollars of taxpayer money to hold another election.
Whether he likes it or not, Bernanke just pledged what will likely amount to a trillion dollars of taxpayer money to Obama's reelection, thereby impacting not only the economy, but potentially immigration policy, the next Supreme Court nominee, education, and even more urgent determinations, like questions of war and peace.
«We have spent millions of dollars of taxpayer money that has resulted in a failed implementation of the Common Core, a flawed policy with a lack of input from experts and most importantly — parents,» said Assemblyman Michael P. Kearns.
«Andrew Cuomo has taken more than a quarter billion dollars of taxpayer money and put it into television advertising for his own political gain.
Cuomo seemed to be of two minds about Alain Kaloyeros, who is facing both state and federal charges alleging that he engaged in bid rigging on contracts worth millions of dollars of taxpayer money and has been suspended without pay from his post as president of SUNY Poly.
In one scheme, Ms. Cohen told the jury, Mr. Silver «funneled half a million dollars of taxpayer money and other official benefits» to a doctor who in turn steered patients with valuable asbestos - related legal claims to a law firm that shared its million - dollar fees with Mr. Silver.
He allegedly schemed with prominent Manhattan doctor Robert Taub to push patients to the firm in exchange for $ 500,000 in research money and other favors, such as a job for a relative at a non-profit where Silver had directed millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
This bill will be a waste of money just like the COBIS law which has wasted $ 30 Millions Dollars of taxpayer money.
Prosecutors alleged that the legislator had «funneled half a million dollars of taxpayer money and other official benefits» to the doctor for his cancer research, and that Dr. Taub in turn steered patients with asbestos - related legal claims to the law firm, which shared its fees with Mr. Silver.
And so it was that $ 5 billion dollars of taxpayer money was invested in a venture with a decades - long unmitigated history of failure.
As a result, millions of dollars of taxpayer money and hundreds of hours of instructional time all are allowed to go to waste as some private schools and those who head them run a scam.
The CHOICE Act would funnel more than $ 11 billion dollars of taxpayer money to private schools.
A news report coming out of the 2010 G20 Summit reported that «Every day governments give away an estimated two billion dollars of taxpayer money to the fossil - fuel industry.»
TO repeat a technological failure in mankind's history is either insanity or simply an opportunistic and greedy Climate Crisis Industry taking full advantage of «save the planet» virtue - signalling in a panic - driven «climate» where literally trillions of dollars of taxpayers money is up for grabs in the form of massive government subsidies.
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