Sentences with phrase «dollars of our taxpayer money»

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.

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?

«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.

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.

«Billions of dollars of taxpayer money. . .

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.

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.

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.

«A decade after scandal, Ray Sansom plots comeback» via Steve Bousquet of the Tampa Bay Times — It has been nearly a decade since former Florida House Speaker Sansom resigned amid allegations that he misused his office to steer tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to a friend and a local college.

The CHOICE Act would funnel more than $ 11 billion dollars of taxpayer money to private schools.

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

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.

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.

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.»

The thesaurus offers plenty of good words, and there's a vast range of suitable phrases, with «should be incarcerated for wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money» and «the biggest fraud since Piltdown man» barely scratching the surface.

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.

There's a US President who lays the fault for the spending of $ 63 Billion dollars of taxpayer money at the feet of that «tell».

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.

All that happened is we had a pointless cultural war for a year and wasted 100 million dollars of taxpayer money fighting over it.

Not exact matches

But disbursing taxpayer money is messy, and a quick scan of the companies that received the most small - business dollars in Virginia reveals an anomaly: No. 4 on the list, according to procurement consultant Eagle Eye, is the $ 24 billion behemoth General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).

Just as critically, banks were on the verge of collapse, and were bailed out with billions of dollars in taxpayer money.

Two members of Congress on Wednesday accused big drugmaker Mylan of «bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars» by underpaying Medicaid in rebates owed on sales of the lifesaving device, as they vowed to recoup that money.

I speak, of course, of the sponsorship scandal in which millions of dollars was stolen from Canadian taxpayers, and that money was then diverted into Liberal bank accounts.»

He says the New Jersey bank would «take money out of Wall Street and put it to work for New Jersey — creating jobs and growing the economy [by] using state deposits to finance local investments... and... support billions of dollars of critical investments in infrastructure, small businesses, and student loans — saving our residents money and returning all profits to the taxpayers.»

If governments provide subsidies to these companies, they will often end up paying money to a number of companies that would have come (or stayed) in the city anyway, a waste of taxpayer dollars.

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

The case against the park district, brought in a civil action filed last May by the Cook County state's attorney's office, alleges that park district officials improperly took office in the Southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

The state's attorney's office sued the park district last May, alleging district officials improperly took office in the southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

The Cook County state's attorney's office filed a civil lawsuit last May that alleged Park District officials improperly obtained their offices, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

«Tioga Downs» expansion will foster hundreds of new jobs and spur much - needed economic development in the Southern Tier, plus generate millions of dollars for public schools and local governments — with all private money and zero taxpayer dollars,» Commission Executive Director Robert Williams said in a statement.

Since announcing her run for Congress, Maggie Brooks has been saddled with an ongoing corruption investigation that includes questions regarding Brooks» husband and the possible misuse of $ 224 million dollars in taxpayer money, and has been dogged by her unwillingness to address the issues, ineffective leadership, and her record of increasing County taxes, fees and debt.

Especially since it's roughly a billion dollars worth of taxpayer money.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

The city Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.»

«We're confident,» Stefan Friedman, a Genting spokesman, said, «that once New Yorkers understand that Genting is proposing to pay for — without a dime of taxpayer money — the biggest convention center in the country, creating tens of thousands of jobs and generating untold billions of dollars in revenue for the state, support for this project will be robust.»

But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

But on Thursday, the New York Times revealed that Peralta, along with colleagues in the IDC, got thousands of dollars in taxpayer money from the state after GOP officials submitted fraudulent paperwork claiming they were the chair of committees that were actually led by Republican senators.

Some of the money was allocated by state Assemblywoman Vivian Cook (D - Jamaica), who the AP said dispensed $ 30,000 in taxpayer dollars to the group in 2008.

In contrast there are other facilities that house less than 300 inmates, do not own their power plants, do not own their actual buildings (that's right the State leases them for tens of millions of dollars yearly with taxpayers money) on prime NYC real estate and are falling down around the people who work there.

Such a project could cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars - money that might come from SU, a private developer and, like the Carrier Dome, a big, long - term investment from state taxpayers.

I think that what that amounts to is that they're building a good foundation with the budget in dealing with the so - called» 5 - billion dollar surplus,» more better said $ 5 billion of taxpayer's money.»

So far, he's not getting any traction on that, but he said today that he will continue to advocate for using taxpayer dollars to fund campaigns to «remove the power of money» from the process and «keep access to the system available to everyone.»

The idea behind Connecticut's public campaign financing system was that replacing major amounts of special interest money in the election process with taxpayer dollars would cut down on influence peddling and state corruption.

The New York City Housing Authority held up millions of dollars in taxpayer money allotted to repair its old developments and to install new security cameras, the New York Daily News reported.

«Pamela Harris has not only stolen thousands of dollars in taxpayers money, but she is still receiving her salary even though she is not showing up to work.

Even when Silver is handing those private investors what will probably be more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money, in the form of subsidies and tax breaks?