Sentences with phrase «for public coffers»

Compare tax to the lottery, another form of wealth - pooling for the public coffers.

With mounting scrutiny over the sizzling hot housing market and the risks it poses for our public coffers, though, it's unlikely that Ottawa will step in to raise the cap again this time.

Not exact matches

And while no specific numbers have yet been revealed in the Trump budget outline for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Republican replacement plan for Obamacare already has that agency in the cross hairs — by promising to eliminate a government prevention and public health fund that puts a billion dollars in the CDC's coffers, the Washington Post reports.

The Miami Marlins baseball stadium agreement which involved almost USD500million initial public investment is set to be sold to a group for lessthan its value with the funds not going back to the public coffers.

As Michael Lesher, a prominent Orthodox critic of the shomrim puts it, «If the Nation of Islam were to set up a private force of Muslims, ostensibly to scour Harlem for «bias crimes,» would City Council members be heaping public money into its coffers?»

The taxpayer subsidy for Aetna spotlights how, while state and municipal budget constraints have forced cuts to social services and layoffs of public workers, lucrative corporate incentives continue to flow out of public coffers to politically connected companies.

Potential candidates for public advocate are state Sen. Daniel Squadron, City Council member Letitia James and Reshma Saujani, currently a deputy in the Public Advocate's Office — none of whom has Weiner's citywide name recognition or his deep campaign copublic advocate are state Sen. Daniel Squadron, City Council member Letitia James and Reshma Saujani, currently a deputy in the Public Advocate's Office — none of whom has Weiner's citywide name recognition or his deep campaign coPublic Advocate's Office — none of whom has Weiner's citywide name recognition or his deep campaign coffers.

You do not ever fight for a public national assignment with the sole hidden purpose of looting the coffers!

As she was approaching the threshold to qualify for more than $ 750,000 in taxpayer matching funds, NYC Public Advocate Letitia James» campaign coffers got a boost from her own staff and people connected to her consultants, records show.

Disgraced former Queens city councilman Ruben Wills cried like a baby as he was sentenced to two to six years in prison Thursday for looting public coffers, pleading for leniency and maintaining his innocence to the end.

As the September 12 primary elections approach and campaigns kick into high gear, a vast majority of candidates for the city's elected offices will have their coffers bolstered by the Campaign Finance Board's (CFB) public matching funds program, which matches eligible donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio.

But many of those programs propose to allocate all or some permits for free, depriving public coffers of revenue to help families living in poverty absorb the higher costs for food, water and electricity.

With public coffers strapped, many developed nations are looking for other funding sources.

Todd Ziebarth, vice president for policy for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, said he thinks states such as Washington are «in for a rude awakening,» when the federal education dollars don't flow into state coffers.

Under EITC, millions of dollars have been raised for public (yes, it helps public schools, too) and private education without diverting money from the state's education coffers....

A common refrain I hear in the course of my reporting and writing about school vouchers — a program that is set to take a large bite out of our public coffers in North Carolina in the months and years ahead — is that at the end of the day, it's the parents who should be the enforcers of accountability for this publicly funded effort to shift state money into private schools.

Leaders in both camps have been debating charter funding in North Carolina for years, particularly since a 2010 amendment by Democrats in the legislature denied charters access to certain funding sources, such as sales tax revenues, gifts and grants traditionally bound for public school coffers.

Bill Cobey, chairman of North Carolina's State Board of Education, has heard all about K12 Inc.'s California settlement, a purported $ 168.5 million pact with the state's attorney general amid long - running allegations that the for - profit virtual charter school operator inflated student test scores and attendance to drain more cash from public coffers.

And you can bet that movement will keep saying «yes» — and that the corporate media will continue to cheer them as heroes for saying «yes» — as long as public education money keeps being diverted into corporate coffers.

Complicating matters for public school finance directors and special education providers is a new voucher program enacted by lawmakers last year that, beginning this fall, will funnel money out of public coffers into private educational settings.

Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school companies...

«There is a tipping point for LEAs,» cautioned Cowell, explaining that in school districts where there are high concentrations of charter schools, students» educational experiences in traditional public schools could be compromised as funds are siphoned away from those budgets and into the coffers of charters.

Early in the twenty - first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series.

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.