Sentences with phrase «government with taxpayer money»

70 % subsidized by our government with taxpayer money.

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Under this hypothetical policy, governments transfer money directly to taxpayers to encourage spending, a handout funded by issuing bonds with a coupon of zero and no maturity date, which central banks buy.

Alberta's premier threatened trade retaliation against British Columbia for standing in the way of the pipeline, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau hinted that he could complete the project with taxpayer money, and BC's premier dug in his heels, recommitting his government to defending the coast from the risk of an oil spill.

Why are all of these governments protecting their taxpayers while the Conservatives are forcing Canadians to pay for an untendered contract with borrowed money?

The banks should be nationalized, at least temporarily, and every person and institution involved (otherwise known as the elite banksters and politicians who served and supported the government and «quasi» government decisions) in each of the bailouts and heists of the taxpayer's (i.e. the «common» mans) money, should be divested of their personal assets and earnings and put in a stockade for public viewing, smack dab in the middle of Wall Street, to be pelted with rotten vegetables.

The Alberta Liberals are calling on the NDP government to make changes to electricity pricing, to save consumers money and deal with taxpayers» looming liability related to power - purchase arrangements.

«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.»

«Tioga Downs» expansion will foster hundreds of new jobs and spur much - needed economic development in the Southern Tier, plus generate millions of dollars for public schools and local governments — with all private money and zero taxpayer dollars,» Commission Executive Director Robert Williams said in a statement.

«With the second consecutive on - time budget, major reforms to save taxpayer money, and a commitment to make New York's schools the best in the nation, Governor Cuomo is making New York's government work again, and making New York the comeback state,» Clinton said.

With this budget, New York will face fiscal realities and make essential reforms in order to better manage our government and save money for taxpayers.»

Winchester's actions emerged after Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, clashed with Paul Coen, chief executive of the Local Government Association, accusing councils of being reckless with taxpayers» money.

With such huge sums of public money at stake a Conservative government will make sure we have the professional financial controls the taxpayer has a right to expect.

Schumer says he and other members of Congress are battling for the federal government to help local governments and taxpayers deal with aging water and sewer lines by making more money available.

Called Open New York and culled from his list of campaign promises, the initiative aims to «harness technology to show how taxpayer money is being spent, showcase the great resources of the state, and foster productive engagement with government,» Cuomo promised in his prepared remarks.

While Mark has acted as the taxpayers» watchdog and called out wasteful spending and irresponsible actions, he has also lead the charge to make a more efficient county government by pushing for the creation of Erie County's prescription drug discount program and the adoption of electronic payments for vendors saving the County and those that do business with the County time and money.

«For me, whenever a government agency or legislator or reporter wants to know where taxpayer money has been spent, I don't have a problem with any type of investigation or oversight.»

«Any assurances given about our future relationship with the customs union and the single market would go to the very heart of the Brexit negotiations, revealing whether the government is intending to stay within either, or whether you intend to negotiate a patchwork of carve - outs, subsidies and sectoral arrangements, which will create winners and losers and may cost the taxpayer colossal amounts of money,» he said.

«We need to start consolidating services either with the county or the private sector looking at ways to cut costs within the city government to save the taxpayers money.»

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.

«My administration will continue looking for ways to save taxpayers» money across all sectors of our government, and asking companies that do business with the State to find new efficiencies and lower their costs is a critical part of the process.»

Saving public money is apparently the entire raison d'etre of this government, but while Grayling bleeds cash with his overstuffed prisons, there's no investigation of how to spend taxpayer money most effectively.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who once spent taxpayer money so he could go horseback riding with Vice President Pence, racked up more than $ 14,000 on government helicopters this summer.

• How can Iain Duncan Smith justify the bedroom tax where the poor are forced, through lack of appropriate housing, to live in a house with bedrooms they do not need, when government ministers are allowed to use taxpayers» money to buy houses in the capital which also have an excess of bedrooms they have no need for?

The NDC MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said the possible recall of Parliament to ratify the 1998 and the 2015 defence cooperation agreements the country signed with the US is the manifestation of a confused government and a waste of taxpayers» money.

Turnbull also argued that Democrats deserve credit for saving taxpayers money by fighting to renovate, rather than replace, the county Government Center, and that Jeff Berkman — a Middletown legislator who preceded him as minority leader — had pushed with Middletown's Democratic mayor, Joe DeStefano, to extend the county's Heritage Trail through Middletown.

We must send people with fresh ideas and fresh perspectives to state government to objectively address the rampant corruption, stop wasting taxpayer money, and prioritize the programs that our citizens desperately need, like prevention, treatment and recovery funding to address the growing heroin and opioid epidemic.»

Shadow secretary of state for local government Eric Pickles said: «Local residents will be outraged at cash being stuffed in the pockets of electorally - challenged Labour politicians, and Labour's unpopularity in the polls being rewarded with taxpayers» hard - earned money.»

The Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has started a scheme of offering modest rewards - such as shopping vouchers - for DCLG civil servants who come up with innovative, thrifty ideas that saves taxpayers» money.

«For a government official though, it shows he's more concerned with having a «Deluxe VIP Interior» than saving taxpayers» money.»

This would come in three parts: a contract with the unemployed («we will work with you but you must work with us»); a contract with the most vulnerable («this government and this party doesn't regard caring for the needy as a burden»); and a contract with the taxpayer (money will only go to those who deserve it, and there will be «no more spend and waste»).

The wound is a state government that spends too much money, and has for too long with too little performance for the taxpayer; that is causing businesses to leave the state.»

«BOST is a public company financed with taxpayers» money and therefore has the responsibility to ensure that it does not engage in suspicious deals that lead to avoidable revenue losses, both to itself, government and consumers,» ACEP added.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

All the bullets and fistfights eventually lead to a high - stakes poker game in which the super sleuth, with the backing of the UK government and the watchful eye of their beautiful treasury officer Vesper (Eva Green), puts taxpayers» money on the line in the hopes of breaking up Le Chiffre's evil network.

If you supply us with your taxpayer ID at a later date, we can not return the withheld tax money because we do not retain it — it is passed on to the government by law.

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members.

But with today's sophisticated technology coupled with the federal government aggressively seeking revenues for the nation's coffers, the CRA is ramping up its search, and going after tax money and taxpayers everywhere.

Until we limit our dear government's power to encourage the private sector to borrow money until it chokes, we need something that enables timely reduction of debt in TBTF (too big to fail) institutions, delevering them with minimal impact to taxpayer and the rest of the economy.

The announcement on the part of the Department of Education fulfills one of President Trump's campaign promises to pull the government out of student loans and streamline programs with an eye toward saving the government and taxpayers money.

The Federal Government bialed out your company with taxpayer money, so why cant You bail us out by just dropping this stupid notion that we need flood insurance.

Numerous Canadians expressed outrage that the Alberta government would spend taxpayers» money on a disingenuous act of greenwashing to support a project that will largely benefit corporations without creating much in the way of employment or economic activity in America, a project that comes with significant environmental risks that will be borne by Americans (in the case of the inevitable spills) and the rest of the world (in the case of increased greenhouse emissions).

More than seven years later, the initiative has been quietly suspended amid problems with some of the equipment — and acknowledgements by city officials that taxpayers will probably lose money on the deal and never realize the energy savings that Daley touted, the Better Government Association has learned.

However, this carnage is being covered up by self - serving and / or politically motivated government agencies, wind industry lobbyists, environmental groups and ornithologists, under a pile of misleading studies paid for with more taxpayer money.

«But this is a government - sponsored event, and he is being paid with taxpayer money.»

That position jibes with that of many conservative Republicans who say governments shouldn't use taxpayer money to pick energy technology winners.

The UK tried that earlier with the PV grants system in the Low Carbon Building programme — but the level of demand for grants was such that it overwhelmed the relatively small scheme, and there were limits to how much more taxpayers money the government felt it could provide.

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.

But because the unaffordable legal services problem now means that the majority of Canada's taxpayers must deal with their legal problems without lawyers to help them, it's now politically very ill - advised for any government to take more of their tax money to provide more free legal services to poor people, even though it's the law societies» decades - long inaction that has caused the problem.

Steve discussed the benefits of fighting traffic tickets with a Trial by Written Declaration and how it saves the government and the taxpayer time and money.

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.