Sentences with phrase «made against the taxpayer»

Not exact matches

The president's comments on the matter came during a town hall event in Maryland, when a questioner who identified herself as an atheist pressed Obama on statements he made as a candidate in 2008 suggesting he was against permitting discriminatory hiring among faith - based organizations backed by taxpayer dollars.

Kudos to the League of Women Voters of Chicago and its president, Edna Pardo, for their stand against the preposterous notion that taxpayers should subsidize profit - making sports enterprises.

The NYT reported that Silver had used an undisclosed amount of taxpayer cash to settle a claim made against Lopez before these two staffers» complaints were referred to the ethics committee.

Andrew Cuomo made a potentially important semantic argument in defense of embattled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's handling of a sexual harassment claim against a Democratic assemblyman that resulted in a six - figure taxpayer payment.

Schulz, who has waged court battles against the SAFE Act gun control law, pork barrel spending and tax policies, believes Silver should reimburse taxpayers for the money he authorized in 2012 when the payment was made to two staffers who said Lopez harassed them.

Weprin stood on the steps of City Hall Sunday with driver - safety group New Yorkers Stand Against Insurance Fraud to urge Albany to make Alice's Law a reality and save taxpayer money in the process.

It's examining sexual harassment charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and how some initially secret payments were made, using taxpayer money, to alleged victims.

Other taxpayers will do the wrong things: they will enter the underground economy and become tax evaders, making it difficult for legitimate business owners to compete against those who don't pay taxes.

Even if the legislature does make a new law to protect Oklahomans, they may find themselves hopelessly tied up in court against big agricultural companies and conglomerates who are happy to waste taxpayer money on frivolous litigation while their companies continue to rake in huge profits at the expense of ordinary Oklahomans.

This shifts energy costs from ratepayers to taxpayers, but it also makes it easier for coal to compete against other forms of energy, including renewable energy like wind and solar.

This dumping of subsidized commodities destroyed the ag production capacity of other countries (third world farmers could not economically compete against the US taxpayer) making them completely dependent on imports of US ag commodities.

14) March 2, 2012 The Virginia Supreme Court rules in the University of Virginia's favor in the Mann case, with the majority finding that the university is not a «person» as defined in the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (FATA), and therefore the Attorney General has no authority under the Act to make civil investigative demands (CIDs) of the university.

No firms gain more by dragging out litigation than the big firms because they have the clients with the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of capitalization who can afford, with the help of the taxpayer, to pay the astronomical fees they charge for as long as it takes to take on similar corporations similarly represented, or to squash the little guy (which is why FCT has McCarthy's on retainer and Stewart has Borden's on retainer — the given real estate file / title insurance claim is small potatoes but the title insurers make it dead obvious that if you sue them, you will up against a Big Firm.

Steven Porter was recently made partner and is leading a series of judicial review challenges brought by taxpayers against HMRC regarding payment notices for the clients» involvement in tax avoidance schemes.

Normally I am against taxpayers subsidizing infrastructure for new business, IE: Costco or Walmart, which must be made up by local ratepayers but this case is different.

It allows taxpayers to receive a credit against federal income taxes for making qualified investments in community development entities (CDEs) which are domestic corporations or partnerships that act as vehicles for providing loans, investments or financial counselling in low - income communities.