Sentences with phrase «get taxpayer dollars»

fast forward 2 weeks, I get a letter from DSS saying that he lives there and I need to do this and that so he can get taxpayer dollars.

Environmentalists would have more effect in the long run if they would simply be honest instead of lying in order to get taxpayer dollars!

So this school isn't really a cyber school in the way we typically think, isn't it just getting taxpayer dollars because it — and the district that charters it — found a loophole?

Not exact matches

It creates an unfair advantage for the lumber industry, says Ali, which leads to «loss of innovation, loss of competitiveness, and... [the public] is not getting the best possible product they should be getting for their taxpayer dollars.»

Vancouver paid off its debt in 2014 by selling the village's luxury condos, but a recent report by Business in Vancouver shows that taxpayers got stuck covering hundreds of millions of dollars of debt.

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

In a democracy, you don't get to personally approve what your taxpayer dollars go to.

«These regulations have created an environment where students are not getting the nourishment they need, and food and taxpayer dollars wind up in the trashcan,» he said.

If you add up these employees — all of whom should have been able to respond to our repeated media inquiries — you get to $ 1,379,281.16, or well over a million taxpayer dollars.

But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

Mashing up Google Earth and with the companies, universities and nonprofit recipients of earmarks in the House Defense Appropriations bill (available from Sunlight and Taxpayers for Common Sense on EarmarkWatch.org), citizens can get a bird's eye view of where members of Congress are shipping our defense dollars, and zoom in close on recipients.

But on Thursday, the New York Times revealed that Peralta, along with colleagues in the IDC, got thousands of dollars in taxpayer money from the state after GOP officials submitted fraudulent paperwork claiming they were the chair of committees that were actually led by Republican senators.

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.

As a result, New York taxpayers won't get maximum value for their construction dollars, and thousands of non-union workers will be unfairly shut out of the competition for government contracts to build, overhaul and expand bridges, highways and other critical infrastructure.

So far, he's not getting any traction on that, but he said today that he will continue to advocate for using taxpayer dollars to fund campaigns to «remove the power of money» from the process and «keep access to the system available to everyone.»

«Of course Ben Walsh doesn't want to do that because his donor list is replete with wealthy developers who got millions of taxpayer dollar benefits from when he was (SIDA's) executive director.»

Finally: Pork opponents brace themselves for the annual «pig book»: CNN Congressional Correspondent Brianna Keilar gets her hand son the latest edition of an annual publication that takes a closer look at how Congress is using your taxpayer dollars.

«By raising the age of adult criminal responsibility to 18, New York can reduce crime, lower recidivism rates, save taxpayer dollars, and provide young offenders with access to services to help get them back on track,» the email states.

Candidates for the General Assembly will get their hands on nearly 12 million taxpayer dollars to reach voters in 2016, as planned, after public financing advocates fought back a threat at the state Capitol.

«The idea that taxpayer dollars can't be used for settlements is a real deterrent effect with officials but if right now if they think the government is going to pay if they get sued or if a claim is filed, that's a little different than if its coming out of your own pocket,» Smith said.

Eighty - six private agencies rake in millions of taxpayer dollars to help NYC's Administration for Children's Services care for New York's most vulnerable kids — and their CEOs get big bucks.

Throughout the campaign, Funiciello has used the factory, which GE has operated since 1946, as an example of the pitfalls of corporate welfare, the practice of using taxpayer dollars to subsidize corporations that Funiciello says give voters the shaft by pulling up stakes when times get tough.

STATEN ISLAND — One city agency under constant criticism from the Staten Island borough president for its late and expensive work got the OK to build a new office closer to its critic — at a cost of about half a million taxpayer dollars a year.

«I want to ensure that these dollars are well spent and that taxpayers are getting a return on these investments.

Tom DiNapoli: «Now that the economy has certainly been in a recovery mode, it's certainly not as strong as we'd like it to be in many parts of the state, I think now is a good time for us to look not only at this program, but at the various economic development dollars that we've spent over the past few years to see what kind of return we've been getting on those taxpayer dollar investments.

«My office is going to make sure that taxpayer dollars are being used appropriately and that proper controls are in place to ensure that all young New Yorkers are getting the quality education they deserve.»

Despite having taken more than four hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer - funded government salaries, Claudia Tenney has gotten more done for New York City than her upstate constituents.

The Bronx non-profit Regional Aid for Interim Needs also made out well, getting an earmark of $ 171,000, despite Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's finding last year that the group's management used taxpayer dollars as a personal «piggy bank.»

«All they've done is spend taxpayers dollars in an effort to subvert us from getting things that are clearly within the public's right to know.»

«What we've gotten is phony gimmicks and a marketing campaign that is fraudulent and that is wasting over $ 200 million dollars in taxpayer money.»

The billionaire hedge fund managers who give million - dollar donations to elite private schools and privatized charter systems want new taxpayer - funded subsidies for their private donations — tax breaks even bigger than they get now.

The full lineup of stories, columns and radio interviews can be found here» State and local economic development agencies in New York give away billions of dollars in subsidies to businesses every year but do little to assess what taxpayers are getting for -LSB-...]

«But a second problem that we've voiced concern about, which is sort of getting lost in the conversation, is that a lot of these are a bad investment of state taxpayer dollars.»

To get those clients, Silver funneled a half - million dollars in taxpayer funds to a prominent mesothelioma physician and directed the doctor to send clients to Weitz & Luxenberg.

In an interview Friday, Lavine repeated her criticism of Walsh for accepting campaign donations from developers «who got some really great deals, at the expense of millions of taxpayer dollars.»

The United States has «got to protect our rigorous peer review system and ensure that we only fund proposals that promise the biggest bang for taxpayer dollars... [And] make sure that our scientific research does not fall victim to political maneuvers or agendas that in some ways would impact on the integrity of the scientific process.»

They are not getting their fair share taxpayer dollars — the money goes to the cities, and also they are not getting their fair share of respect — people assume folks in small towns are ignorant and racist.

The Chinese government itself is concerned about getting a good return on the country's research investment as well as being able to assure taxpayers that science and technology dollars have been well spent.

«When we look at grant programs... the key is not the amount of the grant to begin with, but what we are getting for the taxpayer dollars,» he said, adding that he has supported research into particular diseases.

It's a complete waste of time and taxpayer dollars... and it prevents people from getting important work done.

And, we are told, the taxpayer will get 7.3 dollars back for every dollar spent in implementing Heckman's policy recommendations.

Colorado students who get into trouble after they are expelled from school cost state taxpayers millions of dollars a year, according to a new study.

One measure is «return on investment» (ROI), which tries to determine how much return taxpayers are getting for each dollar the state spends.

Get the most out of taxpayer dollars spent on education by eliminating redundant bureaucracies.

«Republicans are stacking the deck to protect the privatization industry that's spent millions of dollars to get them elected, instead of protecting kids, schools and taxpayers from these unaccountable profiteers,» Ross said.

Demissie went on to say that «ensuring transparency standards for all schools that receive taxpayer dollars and basic oversight for privately operated charter schools should be policies the entire education community and all Californians can get behind — not a reason to launch political attacks.»

Supporters of charter schools, which are funded with the taxpayer dollars that a local school district would otherwise get to educate a student, say the schools allow for innovative ways to teach outside the confines of the red tape found in traditional public schools.

«I don't think that solves the problem because you're still using taxpayer dollars for private education and I don't think there's a way to get around that,» said McColl.

Yet, early - childhood programs continue to get large amounts of taxpayer dollars, evidence be damned — something that is true of so many programs in Washington.

Although they claim to be «public» educational institutions, and are in fact funded with taxpayer dollars, no genuine public school would ever try or get away with the dubious education policies and practices that Achievement First engages in.