Sentences with phrase «drain on the taxpayer»
They called her a thief and a drain on taxpayers.
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«I just hope that there isn't a drain on taxpayers.»
But Deal repeatedly postponed that pledge after he was elected, and entering his final year in office, he made official what many lawmakers long figured was inevitable: There would be no rewrite of a formula he once assailed as a disservice to students, a drain on taxpayers and not suitable to «meet the needs of a 21st century classroom.»
The legacy of the games can not be that they are a permanent drain on the taxpayer, but it is looking harder and harder to make sustainability a reality.
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Many of the candidates on last night's stage have clear records of draining critical funding away from public schools to give to private schools, supporting charter schools that are unaccountable to students, parents, and taxpayers, and slashing education funding and those programs that serve students and help them in the classroom.
It also found those in DB plans are «far less reliant on the taxpayer - funded Guaranteed Income Supplement program,» meaning they are less of a drain on that portion of Ottawa's coffers.
«Refugees that are actually employed, their incomes were on a par with economic immigrants, very much contradicting this notion that refugees are coming and acting as a drain for taxpayers and a drain on the Canadian economy,» [Sharry Aiken, who teaches refugee law at Queen's University] said.