Sentences with phrase «give more taxpayer money»

«Wages are flat - lining and living standards are falling, and Mr Turnbull's only solution is to give more taxpayer money to big business and the banks.

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All gave taxpayers more money to spend and thus help boost the economy.

However, the health secretary also showed an awareness of the concerns raised in Sir Derek's report, which warned more must be done to tackle rising obesity and give taxpayers value for money.

We are today investing more in building new road and new rail, including Crossrail here in this City, than at the height of the spending boom — because that is a use of taxpayers» money that gives a real economic return.

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Both Jepsen and Westby are planning on using the state's public campaign finance system, which would give each more than $ 812,000 in taxpayer money to spend on this election.

The Mayor also proposed a plan for City Council to grant the city the power to sell Emergency Repair Program liens that exist on a property to a third party collector (see video above), who would then be in charge of collecting on the debt — saving taxpayer money from footing the bills for emergency repairs and possibly giving landlords more incentive to make repairs themselves.

«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.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

What we need to do is introduce real reforms into both to make them much more effective and thus give taxpayers far better value for money.

«Given the fact that the state has spent more than $ 11 million in public money to settle sexual harassment claims, this legislative response is essential to protect hardworking taxpayers.»

It gives us the opportunity to invest that money more wisely and return the majority of it back to taxpayers.»

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.

Unshackle Upstate, in a report titled «Money for Nothing,» says giving taxpayer money to candidates will only create more opportunities for corruption and aMoney for Nothing,» says giving taxpayer money to candidates will only create more opportunities for corruption and amoney to candidates will only create more opportunities for corruption and abuse.

Albany, NY - New York state would give even more taxpayer money to movie and television studios that film in Upstate New York under the budget up for a vote in the Senate and Assembly.

There is, of course, the reality that it is more affluent taxpayers that have the money to donate and that incentives to them drive up the dollar totals of charitable giving.

This off formula funding tends to distort the equalizing aspects of the school aid formula and give more money to property wealthy districts and their taxpayers.

Government is too big and too bureaucratic, and our goal as members is to promote ideas that rein in government overreach, give more money back to taxpayers and promote stable, growing economies.

While he proposed cutting money for public schools and shifting even more of the costs of public education onto the backs of middle income property taxpayers, Malloy wanted the legislature to give him even more money so that his corporate education reform industry associates could open up two more charter schools in Connecticut.

Apparently Governor Malloy's new plan not only over looks these existing taxpayer - funded subsidies but he is calling for significantly more money to be given to Achievement First and other charter schools.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

Rather than giving Connecticut charter schools even more state money, state officials should be withholding funds until charter schools fulfill their legal duty to their students, parents and the taxpayers of Connecticut.

Despite all the problems that have recently cropped up in the last year concerning the utter lack of accountability for private schools and for - profit managed charters receiving public taxpayer dollars, Speaker Corcoran seems intent on giving more and more money away to those who will line their own pockets rather than educate our children.

The study found that if non-teacher hiring had matched student growth, that would save more than $ 800 billion in taxpayer money - enough to give an $ 11,000 permanent raise to every public school teacher in the country.

Reclaiming this time and money will put more money in the taxpayers» pockets and give them more time with their families.

meanwhile, china builds coal - fired power stations by the week, while australia demonises coal & wants to shut down its own & give away more taxpayer money for expensive solar, wind & other unworkable, unnecessary CAGW «solutions»!

We know that an inordinate amount of taxpayer and consumer money has been poured into these industries and it would be quite sad if more grants, subsidies, cheap loans or bail outs were given to them.

If I am given a steady supply of money from taxpayers I am sure that I can tinker with my model so that in I can produce even more precise predictions for the next decade - in about 12 years» time.

For more on the $ 7 billion per year in taxpayer money currently being given away to the oil, gas, and coal industries to extract on public lands, see our recent report: «Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands.»

Still considering giving a billion dollars of taxpayers» money to Adani to open a new coal mine, pushing for keeping the Liddell coal - fired power station open five years more than its owner, AGL, intended, and criticising the SA Government's achievment of 52 % renewable electricity as «idiocy».

[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.

How long will it take taxpayers to teach government simply to give us the money — or let us keep more of the money — and we'll decide what to do with it.