Sentences with phrase «federal taxpayers spend»

Not exact matches

I'm not sure a poll of federal taxpayers and parents would find the time and effort spent by these employees on the journal article — which I personally viewed purely as a form of reputational damage control — to be a worthy use of these funds when other aspects of our meal program are in clear need of improvement.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Aaron Schock, R - Ill., has repeatedly spent taxpayer and campaign funds to rent aircraft that are not certified charter services, despite House rules and federal law that generally prohibit the use of private aircraft for official and campaign use.

Opening arguments began this week in the federal corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., and his son Pedro Gautier Espada, who are accused of using the Soundview Healthcare Network as «their own taxpayer - funded piggy bank» by funneling more than $ 500,000 from the organization and spending it on cars, spa treatments, and other personal luxuries.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a $ 168 billion spending plan that he said held echoes of the darkest days of the recession, necessitating a raft of ideas to raise revenue and counter a new federal tax plan that he warned could devastate some taxpayers.

And then (this part is new and part of Paladino's pre-primary media blitz), the focus turns to the «former liberal Congressman Rick Lazio,» who «voted for higher taxes and increased federal spending» and «took a $ 1.6 million bonus from a huge Wall Street bank getting a $ 25 billion - dollar taxpayer - financed bailout.

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The SALT cap also will increase the effective cost of State and local government services at the margin; each new dollar of State and local government spending will cost New York taxpayers more than under previous federal law.

«I laugh at all those who turned up their nose at me,» said Shirley L. Huntley, a former state senator from Queens who spent 10 months in federal prison in Danbury, Conn. — the institution on which the women's prison in «Orange Is the New Black» is based — after pleading guilty in 2013 to stealing more than $ 87,000 in taxpayer money through a nonprofit she ran.

ALBANY — The taxpayer - funded tab to deal with a federal probe of state lawmakers» outside pay, which on Thursday resulted in the arrest of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, has surpassed $ 1.6 million, spending records show.

The citation was intended to ridicule often unusual - sounding scientific research that Proxmire deemed nothing more than wasteful federal spending «fleecing» taxpayers.

But candidates may have to revise their ambitions and spending plans in the wake of the $ 700 - billion federal fiscal bailout, which promises to put a massive dent in taxpayers» pocketbooks.

«Rather than inject politics into this process, our discussion today should instead concentrate on how to safeguard the often unexpected process of discovery inherent in scientific inquiry, while ensuring that federal dollars spent on research remains completely and fully accountable taxpayers.»

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

Districts, of course, can also seek operating levies from local taxpayers to boost revenues beyond what the state affords them, while charters depend entirely on state and federal per - pupil allocations and whatever they can raise from philanthropy (see Figure 1 for current spending estimates).

When President Bush released his spending plan for fiscal 2007 last week, his administration simultaneously unveiled a new Internet site that officials say is aimed at making sure taxpayers know how well, or how poorly, federal programs are working.

President Bush wrote that this was why in 2001 he pushed for NCLB's accountability - through - testing as a performance audit of the spending of federal taxpayers» dollars.

Taxpayers pay for only about 10 percent of all K — 12 education spending nationwide, but lawmakers have argued for years that federal requirements are disproportionate to the federal contribution.

He once spoke movingly about the virtues of NCLB, calling it «an effort to end decades of failed federal education policy that allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be spent without insisting on results for students» But that was before Boehner had to corral a caucus full of Tea Party - backed freshmen.

Still, one thing's clear to me: it's screwy for federal taxpayers to spend 12 times as much on school turnarounds ($ 3 billion) as charter start - ups ($ 250 million) when the latter appear to be four times more likely to succeed than the former.

The largest federal expenditures on children and families, ignoring Medicaid, CHIP and the education system, are through provisions of the tax code that are tied to a taxpayer's income, number of dependents, and the amount parents spent on the care of their children.

That is why most states and the federal government choose to spend taxpayer dollars on «targeted» preschool programs open only to low - income families.

According to the latest federal data, for example, Oklahoma taxpayers spend approximately $ 7,800 per K - 12 student per year, and employ 1 teacher for every 16 students.

K12 also spends taxpayer money lobbying state and federal officials.

«This bill will pave the way for a House - Senate conference to discuss both reforming how taxpayer dollars are spent on federal infrastructure programs, and also meaningful solutions that would address high gas prices and create jobs by permanently removing government barriers to American energy production.»

Canada's federal Conservative Party of Canada, at least, had the good sense not to spend (more) taxpayer dollars shilling for Big Oil.

An editorial at Investors Business Daily put it this way: «Taxpayers pay for this research, which is being used to justify massive new federal spending and regulation.

An «omnibus» spending bill to fund the federal government through October 2015 throws up roadblocks for the Obama administration's climate agenda, namely by blocking taxpayer dollars from going to the United Nations global warming fund.

On the premise of fighting climate change, the Obama Administration has positioned the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, vehicles, and oil exploration, and taxpayers are being forced to spend billions of extra dollars in an attempt to transition to a carbon - free economy.

U.S. taxpayers help fund the IPCC, having contributed $ 10 million in 2015, [9] in addition to the $ 22 billion spent within federal agencies.

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.

But the essential problem is identical: an enforced «consensus» causing billions upon billions of federal taxpayer dollars to be spent on worthless research that is then used as a basis for coercive government policy.

Of course, my tiny bit of distrust will not affect climate science directly, but as a citizen, voter and taxpayer I will oppose the climate change agenda, I will seek to have its funding reduced, and I support criminal investigation of climate scientists who take federal funding but do not comply with FOI requests and accountability for how those funds are spent.

A conservative taxpayers» advocacy group lost its bid yesterday to force five major tobacco companies to reimburse the federal Medicare program for money spent to treat smoking - related illnesses.

The office's math: Halting federal funds to Planned Parenthood would shrink spending by $ 520 million in the short run — but, over the first decade, it would cost taxpayers an additional $ 650 million.

Beyond these out comes, home visiting services are proven to reduce federal and state spending over the long term, saving taxpayers money.

Each year, the federal government spends billions of dollars on disaster relief to flood victims — all at taxpayer expense.