Sentences with phrase «little cost to government»

Billions of pounds can be saved, at very little cost to the government: it's no wonder those in power are listening.

In order to stimulate the creation of a series of Canadian venture investment funds, at little cost to government, CATA proposes that the federal government borrow a page from the Israeli play book, with the structure proposed by VC expert Stephen Hurwitz6.

Not exact matches

While there is no evidence to suggest Katz was attempting to influence the Alberta PC party to contribute money to the arena project, even the faintest whiff of currying favour has killed what little chance there was for the government to share costs.

First, it was that the company paid little to no state and local government taxes and then it was that the e-commerce company was a «scam» which costs the US Post Office and therefore the American people, billions of dollars a year.

«Government usually costs a little bit more and takes a little bit longer to do these things,» Nield added.

These feel - good programs cost the federal government very little; total funding for the Healthier US Schools awards, which are supposed to go to 1250 schools, is just $ 2.5 million.

And even if the cost - benefit balance were to shift, the government (this Coalition or not) would, on principle, do little different.

And there's little correlation between the number of governments — Cuomo usually inflates the figure from around 4,000 to 10,500 by counting special districts — and cost.

The measure was among the proposals in Cuomo's $ 142.6 billion budget proposal designed to ease the cost of required spending on local governments, which some critics said offers too little to struggling local governments.

With each and every growing controversy, we have seen that the government's changes to the criminal justice system have been rooted in the panacea of cutting costs, with little regard to preserving the integrity and the fundamental principles of equality before the law and access to justice that sit at the heart of our legal system.

«With each and every growing controversy, we have seen that the government's changes to the criminal justice system have been rooted in the panacea of cutting costs, with little regard to preserving the integrity and the fundamental principles of equality before the law and access to justice that sit at the heart of our legal system,» he said.

(CNN)-- If Congress passes the COINS Act replacing the $ 1 paper bill for a coin, the U.S. government may be able to save billions in printing costs at the expense of a little more jangle in the average consumers» pockets.

There are countless things that we can do at all levels of government to reduce our costs with little harm to the average citizen.

Although Erie County has no control over any of these little governments, we can play a part in helping to reduce the tax burden they place on residents by developing cooperative agreements with them to cut the cost of duplicative services.

The study shows that the private sector, predominantly the employers and unions that sponsor work - related drug benefits today, would save between $ 6.5 - billion and $ 9.6 - billion annually with comparatively little increase costs to government.

It's a depressing job but John seems to take pride in tracking down the missing relatives and occasionally re-uniting families but the government sees little usefulness in his role and as a cost cutting measure, John is given his walking papers and a few days to tidy up his years of work and wrap his last case.

Mole added: «Given how little it would cost to switch the scheme to organic, the government shouldn't be putting our children's health at risk when there are other options available.»

It is often said that the federal government has little power when it comes to education reform because it kicks in less than 10 percent of the total cost of K - 12 education.

To determine the optimal level of a public policy program, voters and government officials must compare the marginal benefits and marginal costs of providing a little more of a little less of the program's services.

With the federal government under pressure to reform Canada's pension system so that retiring baby boomers and future generations don't fall into poverty, the paper by the think - tank's chief economist William Robson and Alexandre Laurin offers one way to ease the challenge facing seniors at little cost to Ottawa.

-- A growing number of affordable, long - range electric vehicles coming on the market — Ongoing policy - making commitment to those vehicles, even from a post-Brexit conservative UK government (the future is a little less certain on this side of the pond)-- Low cost, large - scale renewables and wide - spread energy storage — A wider range of non-car transportation options, including affordable, high - quality e-bikes — Internal combustion engines shall henceforth forever be known as the Suck - Squeeze - Bang - Fart engine

The bird and dung beetle losses that occur during logging are not trivial, and our results should not be used to suggest that, by logging primary forests, governments could gain huge financial profits at little cost to biodiversity.

The CIC's choice of the regulatory approach suggests that its real interest is not in reducing CO2 emissions quickly and efficiently but rather in prolonging its continuing and so far fruitless battle in the US to force government to impose changes that will cost everyone very dearly and accomplish very little.

Whenever a potential investment project has finances that rely on governments continuing to talk big but do little about climate change, the project risks becoming non-viable after all the costs of development are spent if the government subsequently starts to take climate change seriously.

«They showed the fuel cell could be improved, made more compact and powerful, at relatively little cost, and that the hydrogen economy was a long - term concept for governments to aspire to.»

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

Throughout this last section of the book, you'll learn about: 1) free online research tools and the most effective ways to utilize them, 2) how to cite check cases using online tools, 3) the wide assortment of information available at little or no cost from government websites, and 4) ways to conduct online docket searches.

Licensing the official content at little or no cost from governments should provide an opportunity for the commercial publishers to reduce costs while enhancing the authority of their content offering.

I know from my own personal experience that there are lots of things that lawyers can do to improve access to justice that don't need to wait for new rules of court, overhauled legislation, new triage processes and new social programs, that don't need to wait for the approval of the law society, government or the bench, that can be implemented now, at little or no cost to the individual lawyer.

There has been little comment from the government about how this increased cost will be paid for, particularly at a time when it is increasingly difficult for first - time buyers to get onto the housing ladder.