Sentences with phrase «grants of taxpayer money»

The quest for private donations without public financing can not match the overwhelming power of the small amounts needed to qualify for huge grants of taxpayer money.

Not exact matches

Hi Amy - I wish I could offer free services, but my small business is not supported by taxpayers or grant money of any kind.

Tenney says the $ 15 million gondola planned for the New York State Fair is an unnecessary waste of taxpayers» money, and she'll oppose granting the federal approval needed for the project.

The governor has said he'd prefer to set up a separate source of funding, not from taxpayer money, to pay for a matching grant system.

So, in 2005, Silver awarded Taub's research center a $ 250,000 research grant from an $ 8.5 million pool of taxpayer money established by the state Health Care Reform Act — which was disbursed at the speaker's sole discretion with no public disclosure, court papers state.

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.

Officials at local agencies receiving the grant money said that the funds paid for crime - fighting activities that would otherwise come from local taxpayers or, in this era of tightening budgets, not be funded at all.

Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer money he received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest money out of elections.

That year the pool of taxpayer money Silver used for the grants was eliminated, according to papers.

Under the state's Citizens» Election Program, gubernatorial candidates need to raise a quarter of a million dollars in donations of $ 100 or less with 90 percent of the money coming from Connecticut residents to receive millions in taxpayer - financed election grants.

Campaigners fighting to get their MPs to resign immediately - and spare taxpayers the cost of the resettlement grant - would not necessarily save money though.

• The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee in the House of Commons should monitor and report on higher education funding and provision each year, assessing the impact of changes on disadvantaged students, as well as mature and part - timers; • Better co-ordination between higher education ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to rationalise student funding policies across the UK; • An investigation by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into the impact of the latest changes to grants and loans, to ensure value for money for students and taxpayers; • Stronger evaluation of university spending of # 750m a year on outreach and access programmes to maximise their impact.

House Bill 1637 diverts taxpayer money to private and religious schools with no accountability or oversight, a clear violation of the New Hampshire Constitution, which states, `... no money raised by taxation shall ever be granted or applied for the use of the schools of institutions of any religious sect or denomination.»

I had to file a Freedom of Information request in order to get a copy of the paperwork on the Gates grant and what I received was only the partial information, because as Connecticut taxpayers will have learned from the Jumoke / FUSE fiasco, while charter schools consistently argue they are «public» when it comes to accepting money from the state, they are quick to claim that they are private institutions when it comes to transparency and accountability.

«Through government grants, taxpayers are footing a large part of this scheme's annual # 4m [US$ 7m] budget and they have a right to know their money isn't being spent greenwashing bad practice,» continued Picken.

The global warming pushers are well - funded because they have something to gain — billions of illicit dollars in grant money from the taxpayers, sale of «carbon credits,» book, TV and film deals and more.

The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer - funded government grants, and persuading people to send them money and invest in «ethical» stock funds.

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.

Ball, a long - retired geographer who is more famous for overstating his own credentials than for anything accomplished during his academic career, had accused Weaver (then a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) of bias and scientific incompetence — casting him as part of a politicized campaign to fleece Canadian taxpayers of grant money while overselling the dangers of climate change.

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.