Sentences with phrase «gets taxpayer money»

These tests are administered to all schools that receive funding from the government — if a school gets taxpayer money, the students have to complete the test.

I don't understand why faith based groups are getting taxpayer money to begin with.

De Blasio shouldn't get taxpayer money to pay his legal bills until the city controller certifies he racked them up as part of his job as mayor, according to civil rights attorney Norman Siegel.

The City Council dished out nearly $ 147 million for pet projects throughout members» districts, including a grant to a dysfunctional medical center in Queens that even Mayor Bloomberg's agencies doubt should get taxpayer money.

«A lot of these banks got bailouts, they got taxpayer money, and the assumption was that they would be flexible, they would be amenable to allowing people to modify their mortgages and that this would ease the rate of foreclosures and help people remain in their homes,» he said.

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

Public schools, in contrast, get taxpayer money no matter what, and require seemingly endless political, bureaucratic, and legal combat to hopefully — just hopefully — get improvements made.

And having said that...... Now let's try to get our taxpayer money back for this embarrassing farrago of nonsense these so - called «scientists» have foisted on us.

-- tax carbon (simply a top - down government power grab, which achieves nothing regarding climate but hurts the most vulnerable plus the economy in general); — subsidize corn ethanol (not competitive, drives up the price of an essential food crop); — subsidize «green energy» development or manufacturing projects (too many Solyndras, too many political cronies getting taxpayer money to support basically uncompetitive projects).

Not exact matches

Trump, promising to leverage taxpayer money into $ 1 trillion in road, bridge and waterway improvements: «Taxpayers deserve the best results for their investment, and I will ensure that this is what they get.

That essentially means the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction — the office that, for a decade, has sought to nail down what US taxpayers actually get for the money spent in Southwest Asia — can't do its job.

«It's very hard for European leaders to say to their taxpayers: «That money of yours that we told you we would get back, well I'm afraid it's gone,»» says Jonathan Loynes, chief European economist at Capital Economics.

Amazon's faux competition will lure one otherwise enviable place into handing over a huge amount of its taxpayers» money to a fabulously wealthy corporation for something that place could have gotten for free.

Sovereign debtors must agree to IMF «conditionalities» in order to get enough credit to enable bondholders to take their money and run, avoiding haircuts and leaving «taxpayers» to bear the cost of capital flight and corruption.

Most of these deals go through a privatized economic development agency called JobsOhio, which doesn't require as much transparency as a public agency about what taxpayers are getting for their money.

«If you're looking at the scorecard, there's one for three senators that returned money to the taxpayers of Canada that was improperly claimed,» MacDougall said, adding that «the overarching imperative was to get that money returned, as it now has been returned.»

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

To get the refund money, taxpayers must file a 2014 federal income tax return by this year's tax deadline, April 17.

So if taxpayer money is your concern, I think you've got it wrong.

People get fired for doing that all the time so if you are religious, it is ok to waste taxpayers money instead of doing your job.

All you are really arguing about is who is going to get the taxpayer's money.

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.

Deering is a public high school, and Craig was unsure of the best way to get money to provide the sports hijabs as part of the uniforms, because that would mean using taxpayer money for religious garments.

«With money getting so tight in government, the only way to go is to pool resources and share facilities so the taxpayers only pay $ 1 instead of $ 3 for the same services.»

But it is the duty of government to make difficult choices about priorities and to get maximum value for every pound of taxpayer money it spends.

One of my colleagues, the comedian that he is, got into work early the next day, took a screen grab from the internet and proceeded to print out the image 20 times and plaster our office — a good use of taxpayers» money, ahem.

You're just, the government is not getting as much of their money as they put in but I don't see it as taxpayer money at all,» he said.

«The department's unacceptably poor management of this programme has wasted time and taxpayers» money, with a staggering # 600 million spent in four years just to get to the first stage of business case sign - off.

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.

We've got to stop problems caused by risk - taking here in the City of London spilling onto our high streets and putting taxpayers» money at risk.

In his latest statement on getting better value for money from taxpayers» spending on politics David Cameron has written for the Belfast Telegraph about politicians sitting in two legislatures:

In terms of getting better value for taxpayers» money the most important next step for David Cameron is to strengthen his commitment to reduce the number of MPs.

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.

«The process of the taxpayer getting its money is going to be longer and slower than we hoped in the past because the economy is recovering slower and the regulatory picture has changed,» the chief executive said.

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.

The House will have noted that, for the second time, the Secretary of State was unable to give my hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (David T.C. Davies) the guarantee that he seeks that extremists have not got their hands on taxpayers» money.

Let's see which officials have been getting rich at the taxpayer's expense - and whether they're worth the money.

He revises it down to # 10 billion, but says his objective remains to get all the taxpayers» money back.

LITRG's guide is available from the Group's website via the link: http://www.litrg.org.uk/News/2011/2011-repayments The guide includes: An explanation of who will be getting letters from HMRC Guidance on how to check if HMRC's calculations are accurate Information on what to do if you think the calculation is wrong or incomplete, or you do not understand it Information about how to claim money owed from previous tax years Examples of the letters taxpayers could write in response to receipt of a tax calculation Additionally, a question and answer guide on the 2011 PAYE reconciliation process is available on the website of the Chartered Institute of Taxation: http://tinyurl.com/taxqa2011 LITRG Chairman John Andrews said: «Taxpayers receiving letters from HMRC need to check their calculations carefully — even if the letter says they are getting taxpayers could write in response to receipt of a tax calculation Additionally, a question and answer guide on the 2011 PAYE reconciliation process is available on the website of the Chartered Institute of Taxation: http://tinyurl.com/taxqa2011 LITRG Chairman John Andrews said: «Taxpayers receiving letters from HMRC need to check their calculations carefully — even if the letter says they are getting Taxpayers receiving letters from HMRC need to check their calculations carefully — even if the letter says they are getting a refund.

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.»

When Albany city officials got wind of the plan, they urged lawmakers to reconsider, fearing it would hurt the city's already tight finances — they'd have to borrow money to make the payment earlier, costing city taxpayers $ 100,000.

To help taxpayers get around that, Cuomo wants to make employers pay state taxes on wages rather than tax individuals on the money they earn.

«The problem is not only just for convenience facts but this has got to be costing the taxpayers a lot of money to be having several different primaries,» Zellner said.

... It's important the public is assured that someone accused of stealing taxpayer money, that politics will never get in the way.»

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.

This extra money they would produce will never make it to us working taxpayer, either someone on public assistance (that is cheating to begin with) or gov» t officials will get it Wake up NY ers it all about the rich getting richer!!!!

Responding to the Rich List, the Local Government Association criticised the Taxpayers» Alliance for singling out individuals and pointed out the taxpayer «gets very good value for money» when compared with comparable salaries in the private sector.

«I can quite understand why a Liberal Democrat would want to go ahead with that because they don't believe in financial management and are keen to get rid of taxpayers» money,» he said.

Where it gets muddled in day to day context is that people of course abuse those privileges that taxpayers pay for essentially, which allows the other side to say, see we could have spent the money better.