Sentences with phrase «how tax dollars»

Jason Bedrick of the Cato Institute explains how your tax dollars can be better used to educate your children and grandchildren.

Careful examination of how our tax dollars are spent, and guarding against hidden agendas that come with grants and donations, remain crucial, no matter who gives money or what the stated purpose may be.

Any taxpayer or parent can sit down in any school or college to see how their tax dollars are being spent.

Sunshine laws and public meetings allow citizens to have a say in how their children are educated and how their tax dollars are spent.

Bobby Rykard, Director of Performance Management --» School choice is relevant in my work because it empowers families by allowing them to have a voice in deciding what school their child will attend and how their tax dollars are utilized.

Not only do our extended family and community members get a chance to see all that we do to engage our students in the learning process, but they also see firsthand how their tax dollars are used to support their community's education.

Charter School: Funded through public tax dollars from money meant for traditional public schools, operates in the private sector, may be managed by for - profit charter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.

Worse, parents who have little say in how tax dollars flowing to public education are spent become discouraged from being actively involved in their children's academic development.

GCI recommends changes to the financial oversight of charter schools that it believes will safeguard the public's investment in education while providing transparency regarding how tax dollars are being spent.

DeScioli points out that the finding translates to many situations in which people need to divvy up resources such as family members dividing an estate, business partners dividing profits, citizens deciding how tax dollars will be spent, or nations dividing territory.

«However, billions of dollars in spending lacks key details that would better inform the public about how their tax dollars are being spent.»

«People will tell us that the projects have great merit and were evaluated on those merits, and have solid public benefit, but when you have that kind of a coincidental correlation it raises real issues in the minds of the public and undercuts their confidence in the objectivity of how their tax dollars are being spent.»

«Billions of dollars in spending lacks key details that would better inform the public about how their tax dollars are being spent,» the comptroller noted.

«Residents know what types of projects are most needed in their neighborhood, and participatory budgeting gives them a real voice in determining how their tax dollars are spent.

«Through participatory budgeting, my constituents were able to make real decisions about how their tax dollars were being spent, and I look forward to improving upon the process during the second year,» said Councilmember Eric Ulrich.

And it certainly needs to be transparent,» she said, arguing that New Yorkers deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent.

«I am pleased to be sponsoring participatory budgeting, an exciting way for people to be personally involved in how their tax dollars are spent,» said Councilmember Mark Weprin.

«This is a historic chance for residents across New York City to have a key role in deciding how their tax dollars are reinvested in their community,» said Council Member Mark Treyger.

Local residents know what their community needs and should be directly involved in decisions around how their tax dollars are spent.»

In other words, the people who pay taxes decide how tax dollars get spent.

«My constituents have loved the opportunity to vote on how their tax dollars are spent,» said Council Member Mark Weprin.

«This is a great chance for residents to get involved in their government and help determine how their tax dollars are reinvested back in our neighborhood.

This innovative process will give my neighbors a direct voice in how their tax dollars are spent on projects that will address community needs.

The State's citizens deserve to have confidence in how their tax dollars are spent.»

«It lets ordinary people directly decide how tax dollars are invested in their communities.

Despite the fact that many residents remain displaced after Hurricane Sandy, the people of Rockaway and Broad Channel still came out to vote and have proven that they want a say in how their tax dollars are spent.

To illuminate these issues, Rodier said he plans to produce a software that will allow residents to see how their tax dollars are spent proportionally and how that compares to neighboring towns, adding, «I will produce that software whether I get elected or not.»

We talk about how the COMIDA board should be filled, how tax dollars can be properly stewarded, and what questions are still unanswered.

I am certainly not in favor of that, but I too, understand that as part of our system of govt, I have little say in apportioning how my tax dollars are spent.

Find out how your tax dollars work!

Not exact matches

If you (a) forego 10 hamburgers to purchase an investment; (b) receive dividends which, after tax, buy two hamburgers; and (c) receive, upon sale of your holdings, after - tax proceeds that will buy eight hamburgers, then (d) you have had no real income from your investment, no matter how much it appreciated in dollars.

Depending on how they structure their donations, it will enable them to write off millions of dollars on their annual tax bills, potentially for the rest of their lives.

With this much public money on the line, monitoring how US tax dollars are spent in the recovery will be crucial to prevent waste, fraud, and shoddy work.

And how would the company's tax dollars contribute to the creation of affordable housing in the region?

I have no debt and I max out my Roth IRA, put at least 200 dollars into a 403b account (tax deferred) and I also have taxable accounts... how do you do it?

Operating margin measures how much profit a company makes on a dollar of sales, after paying for variable costs of production such as wages and raw materials, but before paying interest or tax.

How much you pay in federal income tax depends on a few different factors like your marital status, your salary, how many allowances you claim and if you have an additional dollar withholdiHow much you pay in federal income tax depends on a few different factors like your marital status, your salary, how many allowances you claim and if you have an additional dollar withholdihow many allowances you claim and if you have an additional dollar withholding.

It took four years to put this right, the government spending goodness knows how many tax dollars resisting a routine request for clearly justified leave that had been denied without rhyme or reason.

So, exactly how many of your tax dollars are being spent?

How about the tax dollars spent on Imam Rauf's «good will» tour?

His comment about «doing for the least» certainly suggests that, given a choice of how one's tax dollars were spent, he would want to help suport the poor and needy.

I guess you prefer politicians that lie their way into a second war while we're still fighting the first without bothering to figure out how to pay for it, give no - bid million dollar government contracts to their profiteering cronies, then fail to oversee those contracts, leading to BILLIONS of tax dollars wasted.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Of course «our» tax dollars and the welfare and he got college degree pay by us too everything free, but my kids pay student loans to go to college how sad the criminals get help and honest people don't, my kids work hard babysitting, delivering newspapers, washing cars, packing groceries, cutting grass oh that make me so proud of my kids!

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

Leaving aside how disturbing it is to find these Inception (2010) cells treated as a commodity, given their origin and use, why should the government — meaning you and me, through our tax dollars — be involved at all?

Few people know or care how much of their taxes go to something a huge a roads and highways... so why is it so bad to use some tax dollars in support of Matthew 25?

Joe: How about the fact that your constitution calls for the separation of church and state??? If churches want involved in politics then they need to cough up their share of tax dollars.

They complain about how government spends their tax dollars, but don't look at how charities spend their donations.

Funny, how do you think Mitt will cut the defecit as he stated he will cut taxes by 5 trillion dollars and increase military spending by 2 trillion over 4 years?