Sentences with phrase «even as taxpayers»

Now critics are saying that the Democrats» pro-Malloy mailings will undo the original promise of the public financing system — because the special - interest money will flow into the state campaign through the party's «federal account» even as taxpayers continue to pay for campaigns that were supposed to be kept «clean» of contractors» money.

Not exact matches

Hensarling and other Dodd - Frank critics have called that ability — known as «orderly liquidation authority» — a bailout, even though any taxpayer money used is supposed to be recouped from the sale of the company's assets or an assessment on the financial industry.

As poverty intensifies, governments are urged to bail out the economy's savers at taxpayer expense, cutting back wages even while shifting the tax burden from property onto labor.

It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.

In other words, Quebec and federal taxpayers are being asked to pony up to protect the financial well - being of the family, which, incidentally, received approximately $ 150 million in dividend payments from Bombardier over the last decade, even as the company has yet to repay all the money its borrowed from the federal government in the past.

But whether it's a taxpayer advocacy group, a policy institute, a coalition akin to the one now fighting proposed changes to private corporations, opposition Conservatives and New Democrats, or even a more tax - reduction friendly government such as Quebec, the idea of a $ 10,000 TFSA should be a positive rallying point for many reasons.

As my colleague Dylan Matthews points out, it's a bit of a strange argument, because even if a new NAFTA boosted US economic growth, funds for the wall would still come from US taxpayers.

Bush even draws attention to the unique difficulties that present itself to the federal government as a democratic body that represents a constituency with diverse moral worldviews and that therefore has a «duty to exercise responsible stewardship of taxpayer funds».

Even suburbanites, I think, as property taxpayers, think that the people who pay the freight should get first dibs at this park system.»

As a taxpayer I am sick of paying for the unchecked growth of charters.I even got a flyer today offering a $ 100 incentive for those referring students to enroll in a local charter school.The charter school industry seems well funded enough to pay for all these ads — how about donating the funds for these ads to reduce local taxes — listen to local taxpayers!.

«I firmly believe that continued hiring as our city is facing this budget shortfall, before we even have a budget plan for the coming fiscal year, is not in the best interests of the City and our taxpayers.

But when we read in the past about enormous executive bonuses at firms even as they were relying on assistance from taxpayers, it offended our fundamental values.

«These numbers are further proof that Governor's tax cap is a success and they also demonstrate that even with a stricter 1.56 percent cap this year, the tax freeze is working as intended to encourage schools and local governments to cuts costs and provide relief to property taxpayers.

He told the audience: «You have no idea about the excuses people come up with to keep data out of your hands, even when you as taxpayers have paid for it.

Stony Point has struggled with the loss of big commercial taxpayers over the past decade, forcing the town residents to pay more in taxes even as the town board cut services.

A firm that manages dozens of city homeless shelters — including the Bronx site where two toddlers were killed by a radiator steam leak in December — has kept years of tax problems hidden from the city even as it continued to collect millions in taxpayer dollars.

That's almost exactly two years after McLaughlin pleaded guilty to stealing $ 2.2 million in cash, carks and perks — both as a state lawmaker (he even bilked a little league team out of taxpayer - funded member item money) and as president of the New York City Central Labor Council.

One of the lawyers who issued a taxpayer - funded report exonerating New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the Bridgegate affair is co-hosting a $ 2,700 - a-person Los Angeles fundraiser for the governor's presidential campaign — even as her firm continues to represent his office in the ongoing case.

After casting his ballot at his Mount Kisco polling place, Cuomo said «angry taxpayers» who have the highest property tax bills in the country are passionate about his leadership, even if they aren't as outspoken as liberals who protest on issues like the environment and socioeconomic justice.

But even as mayor he has been unable to shut down the horse - carriage industry — despite extraordinary efforts that included a proposal to spend $ 25 million in taxpayer money to put the horses in Central Park.

And as taxpayers across the state get even more used to the protection provided by the cap, it will become a taller political order for public employee unions and local governments to riddle it with loopholes, as they've been trying to do.

But that doesn't mean taxpayers can just pay more and more, as the union would like, even as its members make little sacrifice.

AMHERST, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

If the unions felt strange agreeing with the BRC, the will have felt even odder winding up on the same page as infamous right - wing outfit the Taxpayers» Alliance.

Local leaders pulled no punches as they criticized the PSC and even some local elected officials for supporting the deal, which puts local jobs — and the largest taxpayer in Niagara County — in jeopardy.

The state comptroller moved this week to limit payments by the taxpayer - funded state - employes» health plan for what he described as «outrageously expensive specialty drugs» — which can cost the plan $ 1,000 per prescription, even though he said they're just combinations of inexpensive nonprescription drugs.

Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills is up for re-election with some influential backers — even as he stands trial on charges he stole thousands of dollars from taxpayers.

The governor today reiterated the vow to help get members of his own party elected to the Senate even as he pointed to poll data showing one of the Democratic conference's chief goals — taxpayer - financed elections — is unpopular among New Yorkers.

County lawmakers also urged passage of any of several bills, including a Senate bill, S. 1814, from Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer, R - Amherst, that would impose a Medicaid residency requirement, as the county has, in recent years, seen a significant number of eligible applicants for taxpayer - funded medical care from outside the county — and even outside the state.

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.

9/11 made America respect its police officers, through all their perceived selfless actions, and the notion of laughing at — and even with — law enforcement officers goofing around on taxpayers dollars was seen as not only dishonest but disrespectful.

This amounted to a return of more than $ 2 for every taxpayer dollar spent and a social return of nearly $ 4 for every dollar spent.13 The social return included benefits such as improved skills and human capital, greater lifetime civic engagement, lower delinquency and criminal activity, and even improved health status for volunteers.14 Cost - benefit analyses of more than 50 individual AmeriCorps programs have yielded similar results.15

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.

But as insulting as that is to Connecticut's new teachers and Bridgeport taxpayers, across the state, Governor Malloy's Special Master for Windham, Steven Adamowski, signed a deal with Teach for America that is proportionately even more lucrative.

Either Success Academy is not meeting its obligation to provide information to the NYSED, taxpayers and parents, or Success is suspending students for incidents that are so trivial they are not even listed as a category on the VADIR report.

• In the K - 12 world, cyber schools — many of them operated by for - profit companies as an online option for public school — are still taking in taxpayer dollars even while many flunk on state report cards, reported Politico.

Given the recent research showing that being suspended even once in ninth grade is associated with a twofold increase in the likelihood of dropping out, from 16 % for those not suspended to 32 % for those suspended just once (Balfanz, 2013), the high number of students suspended, as presented in this report, should be of grave concern to all parents, educators, taxpayers, and policymakers.

As Mayor of Stamford Malloy was even one of the original plaintiffs in the critically important CCJEF v. Rell court case, a lawsuit that seeks to throw out the unfair and unconstitutional school funding formula and replace it with one that meets the requirements of Connecticut's Constitution and would be better for Connecticut's schools and taxpayers.

As charter schools and their advocates push even harder for more taxpayer funds so they can open more charter schools, State Education Commissioner Pryor will play a vital role as the State Department of Education acts on seven new charter school applications that would create spaces for another 1,600 studentAs charter schools and their advocates push even harder for more taxpayer funds so they can open more charter schools, State Education Commissioner Pryor will play a vital role as the State Department of Education acts on seven new charter school applications that would create spaces for another 1,600 studentas the State Department of Education acts on seven new charter school applications that would create spaces for another 1,600 students.

Families for Excellent Schools is the corporate funded, New York based, charter school industry lobbying group that bused in students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston, last year, to attend a rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

As most of Connecticut's local property taxpayers are being asked to pay more to preserve their local schools, and Connecticut's taxpayers are being asked to pay more to invest in Connecticut's most troubled schools, leave it to Mayor Finch and the majority Democrats in Bridgeport to sneak in an end of the year cut to their own schools... even after the state and its taxpayer's bailed them out of their school budget deficit last year.

Due to the details of the APPR regulations, district funds must be funneled to staff development and outside scoring even as New York State taxpayers» precious dollars are funneled to testing companies and other vendors.

Due to the details of the APPR regulations, district funds must be funneled to staff development and outside scoring even as New York State taxpayers

An even more important, but unresolved issue, is how Perry can even replicate Capital Prep Magnet School in Bridgeport and Harlem when federal copyright laws and Hartford Board of Education policies appear to make it clear that the concepts, materials, curriculum, policies and procedures that Perry has said he will be using in his charter schools actually belong to the Hartford Board of Education and the taxpayers of Hartford and do not belong to Perry or Perry's private company as he claimed in his Bridgeport and Harlem charter school proposals.

The majority of the money flows through to Hartford's two largest charter school management organizations (Jumoke and Achievement First) and even the money going to the Board of Education is restricted in such a way as to force Hartford and Connecticut taxpayers to devote even more resources to the charter school industry.

Even if a taxpayer can claim the significant other as a dependent, this would not qualify the taxpayer for head of household filing status.

Heath goes on to say «a taxpayer can designate a property as their principle residence for up to four years even if they are renting it, but they can't simultaneously designate another property that their spouse owns as that family's principle residence.»

«Even if the business doesn't make much money, it may enable a taxpayer to claim expenses they're going to incur anyway as tax deductions.»

The end result is painful for students in transition and it will probably be even more painful for taxpayers as loan forgiveness options are put forward.