Sentences with phrase «less taxpayer dollars»

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They also showed agreement, albeit to a lesser extent, with Flaherty's alternate proposal of an embedded capital tax, where financial institutions could convert debt to equity to aid the financial institution in the event of a crisis instead of using taxpayer dollars.

All known factors & risks when the city approved the project and funding plan, and all much less painful than asking taxpayers to fund a billion dollar arena on top of all of these costs.

In contrast there are other facilities that house less than 300 inmates, do not own their power plants, do not own their actual buildings (that's right the State leases them for tens of millions of dollars yearly with taxpayers money) on prime NYC real estate and are falling down around the people who work there.

Reducing recidivism means less crime, it means safer communities, it means fewer taxpayer dollars spent on incarceration.

«This transition is not only an opportunity to hit the ground running, it sets the tone for my administration and we must work to save taxpayer dollars and to do more with less,» he said.

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.

«Harry Wilson is the advocate for less risky, fixed income investments in the Pension Fund to protect taxpayer dollars.

Every dollar we spend in CHIPS is one less dollar the local taxpayer has to spend, so there's property tax relief and mandate relief.»

«The president and his Cabinet are working collaboratively to create a leaner, more efficient government that does more with less of taxpayers» hard - earned dollars,» the official said.

A recent Politico story found that taxpayers in 14 states are spending almost a billion dollars this year in tuition at private academies and religious schools, many of which teach fundamentalist religious doctrines like creationism in place of science, telling students that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and that humans co-existed with dinosaurs.

For property taxpayers, the savings that refunding bonds typically generate is less than $ 2 or $ 3 dollars per $ 100,000 of assessed value.

Financed with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, charters also were more likely to earn D's and less likely to earn A's, B's or C's than regular public schools.»

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

But the fact is that they don't have unionized faculty and staff so they can pay less... and yet these same teachers are put into the state's teacher retirement system which will cost Connecticut taxpayers tens of millions of extra dollars in the years to come.

A dollar - for - dollar credit operates less like a tax incentive and more like a direct transfer of taxpayer funds away from the public education fund and into private hands.

Connecticut taxpayers are paying Achievement First, Inc. millions of dollars and it is only now that they realize that students who are having problems need more, not less, class time?

Here in Connecticut, the Malloy administration is providing significantly less than 20 percent of the cost of implementing the SBAC testing program, meaning local property taxpayers are literally shelling out tens of millions of dollars for a test that is designed to fail their children.

This is an example of how No Kill can actually save taxpayer dollars, since the contract price is 15 % less than the amount the city had paid to run the shelter.

The Environmental Working Group summed it up succinctly: «the bill would give unlimited taxpayer dollars to farmers who are already enjoying record profits and less support to hungry kids who depend on federal assistance.»

we need MORE POINT OF USE solutions — efficiency, smart metering and renewable generation, and LESS Big Energy Monopoly solutions which kill off ecosystems, force us from our own land, divert our taxpayer and ratepayer dollars into building their infrastructure, then hijack us!

So the issues are very much broader than the trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars which the states are being forced to devote to the misguided effort to tear down fossil fuel plants and replace them with much more expensive and much less reliable wind and solar plants which will have no measurable impact on climate or anything else other than the profits of the solar / wind industries.

Jagadish Shukla, a George Mason University climate professor with a rare aptitude for snaffling millions of dollars in taxpayer funded grants but rather less of a skill — you suspect — when it comes to producing research of any damn use to anyone.

Kleine, Dunning and other members of the organization presented a report Thursday that highlights Nebraska's need for early learning programs that helps kids both academically and socially, helps cut crime and saves taxpayer dollars by keeping less people out of the system.