Sentences with phrase «gotten public subsidies»

Reached by phone, Parkash insisted his buildings are in good shape and that he has never gotten public subsidies or tax benefits.

21) New York: Community activists force Niagara Bottling to abandon its plans to draw off water from the City of Kingston's public reservoir and get public subsidies while doing it.

Not exact matches

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

Who exactly is getting the $ 7 billion in public tax breaks and subsidies handed out by various state programs and hundreds of local Industrial Development Authorities?

There are vast dark pools of public funds and subsidies getting handed out to businesses, non-profits and we — the tax payers — do not know who is getting what and why.

He points to a letter that Cuomo to former chair Audrey Zibelman, in her capacity as CEO of the Department of Public Service, directing her to open a proceeding on getting the state to 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 and providing the nuclear subsidies.

Heaney said taxpayers are not getting a good return for their considerable investment in major Buffalo Billion projects and that IBM has effectively said it's none of the public's business how it is using $ 55 million in subsidies.

Cuomo insults the legacy of his late father, liberal icon Mario Cuomo, by claiming that businesses paying the minimum wage «steal» $ 2 billion from taxpayers because their workers can get government subsidies, according to Empire Center for Public Policy President E.J. McMahon.

If signed into law, it would require employers who get substantial public subsidies to pay a minimum of $ 10 an hour.

If it's every party then the BNP could get a big public subsidy.

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

Hydro - Québec petitioned the Public Service Commission to allow large - scale and incremental new hydropower to get the same subsidies as new solar or wind projects but was rejected.

New Yorkers get very little in return for the $ 7 billion in public subsidies given out to corporations by our state's economic development programs in exchange for job creation projects every year.

The Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents the unions, argued that developers have a responsibility to provide good wages since they're getting public benefits, but the Real Estate Board of New York said at the time that the costs of doing so would be prohibitive to development — or would force the government to increase subsidies to help cover costs.

He went on to criticise the current government for not respecting theatre and said that any theatre that gets large public subsidies, such as The National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, should bring their prices down to become more accessible to future generations.

Let's get serious about our public schools, and stop throwing tax dollars at what doesn't work — private tuition subsidies.»

To get truly serious about addressing climate change, Washington must end the billions in subsidies going to the industry and move to keep fossil fuels in the ground by banning drilling offshore and ending the fossil fuel leasing program on public lands.

«It is not obvious to see how nuclear will be affordable without some form of public subsidy because the costs keep rising of building nuclear and getting rid of the waste,» he said.

[30] Epstein states his main sources of revenue vary «depending on what [he's] working on,» but in the «last year it's been a combination of public - facing (e.g., getting paid to write the book [The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels]-RRB- and giving speeches, a lot of which are to industry groups,» noting that he'd be willing to «work with anyone fighting for freedom — but not for subsidies.»

Alternatively, please show me where nukes are getting built without such a public subsidy.

That could be seen as a public subsidy for a company that sells electric cars to rich people that get a tax credit for their toy.

Projects sold to the public as planet - saving turn out to be vehicles for people with government connections to get their hands on taxpayer - funded loans and subsidies.