Sentences with phrase «losing taxpayer money»

And now they're complaining about losing taxpayer money to support their particular, or peculiar, view of the cosmos?

But those solar investments are going south, losing the taxpayer monies in the process as we discussed here and here.

Not exact matches

Taxpayers are taking the bait and losing significant amounts of money, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

The money, of course, comes ultimately from he very taxpayers and consumers who stand to lose the most from this systematic annihilation of the nation's fauna.

The private Wilmette Harbor Association may lose its lease to manage the North Shore marina, and its members are seething that a local Park District commissioner — who took part in private discussions and voted to spend taxpayer money to study the harbor — is making a private play to win the management contract.

«It's an example of taxpayers» money being lost and this loss of taxpayer money follows on the heels of the CityTime losses.

HM Revenue and Customs lost up to # 1.74 billion of taxpayers» money in tax credit fraud, error and overpayments, according to official figures published yesterday.

Preston said some of the purchases were for items she lost during the flood, but she repeatedly insisted she did not use town or taxpayer money.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is investing $ 750 million of taxpayer funds and the hopes of a community desperate for an economic recovery in a company that is losing money, weathering two federal investigations and facing, by its own admission, an uncertain economic future.

There were no details about whether or not Dare has reimbursed taxpayers for the monies lost on Gateway Commons and / or his historic foreclosures.

He argued the giveaway could be triggered by a share price threshold, preventing the taxpayer from losing too much money after the 2008 bailout.

Schumer says one way or another, the taxpayers will foot the bill for money lost to the proposed cuts.

In the Commons Steve Webb, a welfare minister, said that the increase in the personal tax allowance, which would be worth # 5 a week to basic rate taxpayers, would more than compensate for any money they might lose from in - work benefits being capped.

11.06 am: Alan Duncan, the international development minister, told Sky that many parents who will lose out from the abolition of child benefit for higher - rate taxpayers do not really need the money.

The New York State Pension Fund, and the taxpayers who have to backstop it, have lost billions of dollars because Tom DiNapoli made risky investments on Wall Street in an attempt to meet an unrealistic return expectation that any private sector money manager in America — except maybe Bernie Madoff — would know is a fallacy.»

Earlier this month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo paid a visit to the centerpiece of his upstate economic development strategy: a massive, still - unfinished «gigafactory» taxpayers spent $ 750 million to build and equip for SolarCity, a money - losing company with a foggy future.

Without an attached hotel, the convention center, which requires a $ 2 million annual taxpayer subsidy, will continue to lose money, he said.

The book reveals how commercial banks that ostensibly lost money on bad loans to Third World governments in reality lost very little because, since 1982, Northern taxpayers have contributed between $ 44 and $ 50 billion in tax relief on bank provisions and «losses».

The consortia don't want to lose members, and they certainly don't want to have to explain why they got $ 330 million of taxpayer funds if the market was going to produce something states wanted and without government money.

Vallas has spent millions of dollars of taxpayer's money fighting and losing in court.

According to Integrity in Education, $ 100 million (ballooning in the past year to $ 200 million) in taxpayer money was lost, misused, or wasted in just 15 of the 42 states that have charter schools.

In in 2008, Forbes reported that «when students abandon the blackboard for the flat screen, their schools lose up to 70 % of the taxpayer money that attaches to them (Randall, 2008).»

Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Government is going to lose $ 170 billion of taxpayer money over student loan programs in the next ten years.

And if they lose, well again, their mistakes are paid with other people's money (i.e. taxpayers) and more often than not the executives not only keep their jobs but still end up with enormous bonuses.

Not only does it cost money to the taxpayers, the borrower's wages can be garnished, they can lose benefits, and it negatively impacts their credit history.

· Getting lost dogs home reduces stress on the owner and the dog, and · Reduces work for staff at shelters / animal control facilities and rescues, which · Saves taxpayers» money for animal care, and · Opens up cage and kennel space for truly homeless dogs.

In response to this decision, Khan has commented that it was his «duty to ensure taxpayers» money was spent responsibly» and that he was «very angry that London taxpayers have now lost tens of millions of pounds — committed by the previous mayor on a project that has amounted to nothing».

Given that the polar bear listing was a response to a suit the feds were in the process of losing badly, I'd say the Alaskan governor is just going to waste the taxpayers money.

The resulting report looked into the amount of money lost to taxpayers from leaks during careless gas drilling on federal lands.

The taxpayers and local governments also need to spend a huge sum of money to clean this trash off the streets and beaches to protect the health of public, avoid lost tourism revenue from filthy beaches, and prevent flooding from trash blocked in water and sewage drains.

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.

In other words, this is what Solyndra's loss of $ 500 million in taxpayer funds looks like compared to the money taxpayers have lost on failed military projects and experiments.

A conservative taxpayers» advocacy group lost its bid yesterday to force five major tobacco companies to reimburse the federal Medicare program for money spent to treat smoking - related illnesses.

In addition, the government may charge financial services companies a fee to help taxpayers recover some of their investment if the government loses money on the securities.

When they lost money, we the taxpayers covered their losses.