Sentences with phrase «federal taxpayer subsidies»

«Federal taxpayer subsidies are helping pay for over 1,000 health plans that cover abortion on demand, and [last week's] Supreme Court decision underscores that only Congress can put a stop to that,» said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

In 2013, the Walton family received $ 8 billion in tax breaks, $ 6.2 billion of which came from federal taxpayer subsidies handed to them because employee wages are so low.

Not exact matches

and Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the federal watchdog agency to research and report on the economic subsidy that too - big - to - fail banks receive as a result of actual or perceived taxpayer support.

«This decision again demonstrates the need for enactment of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which would permanently prevent taxpayer subsidies for abortion - covering health plans, both in ObamaCare and in other federal health benefits programs.»

The underlying assumption is that tax exemption is a public subsidy, a form of federal financial assistance, and that other taxpayers must make up the taxes not exacted from an exempt entity.

A multi-billion-dollar sugar fortune propped up by taxpayer subsidies and federal price floors.

The Congressional Budget Office says that federal subsidies for manufacturing and purchasing EVs will cost taxpayers around $ 7.5 billion through 2019.

Meantime, he should phase out taxpayer subsidies over which the Administration has some control — for example, increasing the fossil industry cost - share for federal research and development and bringing U.S. royalty and lease rates up to the levels charged by other nations.

The conclusions challenge a cornerstone of Labor's climate change policy as the federal government pours taxpayer funds into wind projects using direct subsidies, a planned $ 10 billion investment fund and renewable energy targets.

According to the Wikipedia article on wind power generation in Iowa, the industry is subsidized by a one cent per KwH tax credit, plus property and sales tax breaks for generation facilities and equipment, plus unenumerated but presumably meaningful support by taxpayers of other states in the form of federal subsidies.

A study by the Beacon Hill Institute, a free - market think - tank associated with Boston's Suffolk University, lists a sharp drop in tourist spending among the economic costs the project would impose; it would not be viable at all without a vast subsidy from state and federal taxpayers, the report argues.

The author apparently assumes naively that the huge federal subsidies for wind facilities (which merely shift cost from «wind farm» owners to taxpayers and electric customers and hide them in tax bills and monthly electric bills) are not a part of the true costs.

Increasing Federal subsidies would further burden taxpayers.

ALEC states, however, that federal, state and local subsidies pay for at least 30 % of solar power equipment and «often much more», and that every increment of solar power increases overall taxpayer burdens to pay for the subsidies.

* Taxpayers who end up bearing the burden of taxes escaped by wind energy developers who take advantage of generous tax shelters (including federal production tax credits and accelerated depreciation), similar tax shelters provided by some states, property tax exemptions, and direct subsidies.

While the USDA payment was chicken - scratch in the world of federal subsidies, grants and loan guarantees, it shows how risky to the taxpayers such federal programs are.

Any patent created by a tax exempt organization like a University, federal department (like the Dept of Energy), or any other non-profit that receives a taxpayer subsidy, should be off - limits to trolls.