Sentences with phrase «gets more taxpayer money»

«LA Unified probably gets more taxpayer money than any other entity in the state, I'm willing to bet, and yet it's fine with us that they do whatever they want with it and we're just supposed to throw the money at them?»

The Florida Education Association, the teachers union, says the Republicans» goal is to expand the voucher program and get more taxpayer money into private hands.

Not exact matches

Maude began and ended quite touchy - feely, but the meat of the piece fairly accurately represented what you might expect a Tory platform on the third sector to look like: we need a «rehabilitation revolution'to tackle unprecedented levels of reoffending, fuelled by addiction, illiteracy and family breakdown; the state consistently fails to get those who have never worked, lone parents, and those on incapacity benefit back to work; charities should be paid by results; and the third sector is means of saving taxpayer money and delivering services more efficiently and effectively.

Changing withholding tables would result in taxpayers getting more money back in their paychecks immediately, instead of receiving a larger income tax refund.

«People struggling to get to work yesterday morning will be appalled to see that under Labour union barons were being given thousands of pounds of taxpayers» money in expenses while spending millions more in secret,» Ms Patel said.

«These officials laundered more than $ 2 million in taxpayer money through a complex bid - rigging scheme and thought they could get away with it.

The answer to operating a functional government isn't to ask taxpayers for more money, it is getting to work, making tough choices, improving efficiency and reducing spending.

«So we're imposing additional costs on the communities that would have gotten these monies at a low interest rate, and their property taxpayers are going to have to pay more for the projects that they need to do.»

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

The answers may determine how much local taxpayer money gets funneled into programs that may do nothing more than give the appearance of attempting to tackle drug problems.

Richard Watts, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «We are told that academies and free schools are subject to more financial scrutiny than council - maintained schools, yet we keep hearing that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money, which has been earmarked to make sure our children get a good education, is disappearing into the back pockets of those in charge.

Charter schools get taxpayer money but have more freedom than traditional public schools do to map out how they'll meet federal education benchmarks.

Lots of golfers and corporate types from ConnCAN and RI - CAN are anxious to get more charter schools and to see more public taxpayer money.

When all the costs of an RAL are added up, taxpayers can be spending more than 10 % of their refund just to get the money a few days sooner.

Taxpayers due a refund from the IRS now have more ways to save the money they're getting back from Uncle Sam.

That way we can stop wasting billions in taxpayers money on pseudo science and get on with more important things.

These idjiots are just trying to get more of the taxpayers money.

If the Turnbull Coalition government was to use taxpayer's money to reopen this old power station it would have to be one of the most unethical acts ever by an Australian government (at least since Liberal PM John Howard got Australia involved in the Iraq War) and Australia would be even more an international climate - inaction pariah than it already is.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

[18] First, there had to be taxpayers, like Cannon, who were willing to buy into the concept that they could maximize their tax deductions not just by giving money to charity, but by getting a receipt for more than they had actually given — that is, by making a profit from their charitable donations.