Sentences with phrase «dollars of our taxpayer money so»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.»

New York state is spending so much money on medical care for older inmates that Cuomo said it's time to let them loose via «geriatric parole,» potentially saving taxpayers millions of dollars.

«We've concluded that using taxpayer dollars to pay for political campaigns is a poor use of taxpayer monies, and that this so - called reform will not solve the problems facing New York's political system,» states Unshackle's report.

So, it would appear that the U.S. taxpayer will provide the commercial companies billions of dollars in taxpayer money to develop crew capability, then pay billions more to use this capability to fly astronauts to a location that might not be around much longer.

And so it was that $ 5 billion dollars of taxpayer money was invested in a venture with a decades - long unmitigated history of failure.

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

As a result of their ill - conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away from classroom instruction so that corporate education reform companies can continue to make even more money.

So that's a good development, but what saddens me is the fact that he spent millions of dollars of Virginia taxpayer money and forced the University of Virginia to come up with significant funds themselves, wasted on this witch hunt, wasted on this personal vendetta, this effort that he was using to try to discredit climate science, to do the bidding of the fossil fuel interests that fund his campaigns.