Sentences with phrase «more local tax dollars»

This bill would keep more local tax dollars in local public schools.»

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«We're confident the impact will increase with visitors purchasing more bottles to ship home, which will boost tourism and add valuable tax dollars to local and state coffers.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

The school superintendents said in a relatively high - tax state like New York, the highest - income taxpayers would be forced to pay thousands of dollars more per year in taxes if they are no longer able to deduct state and local income taxes.

Over a decade ago, New York State and local governments used more than a billion dollars» worth of tax breaks and other incentives to lure GlobalFoundries to Saratoga County.

The revenue generated by the travel and tourism industry translates to more than $ 500 in property tax savings for every county homeowner, while every dollar invested in tourism yields $ 32 in the local economy.»

Others, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, suggest spending more surplus dollars on economic development, so extra tax dollars would allow local governments to better fund infrastructure projects on their own.

The bill would have allowed charter schools to receive more federal and local tax dollars — as well as private grants — than to which they are currently entitled.

The goal is to create new markets and an additional layer of top down control funneling more tax dollars from local budgets.

Just like traditional public schools, charter schools are funded by local, state, and federal Tax dollars based on student enrollment, but they have the freedom to be more innovative while being accountable for improved student achievement.

Beginning in 2018, the legislature will rob urban and suburban school districts, mainly in King County, of about one billion dollars in «local levy» funds (paid for with property taxes of King County homeowners), change the name of this billion dollars to «state levy» funds and then spreads this money around to more rural school districts.

Of course, the problem is even where teachers have agreed to a wage freeze you have increasing costs — without additional state aid — those extra dollars will have to come from the local property tax which is much more unfair for the middle class than raising money through the income tax (assuming you don't let the millionaires off the hook like the Governor did).

This flips the norm established more than 35 years ago with Proposition 13, the landmark property tax limit, when the state became the school funding distributor as well as decider, largely dictating how locals could use the dollars.

While it remains unclear whether Governor Dannel Malloy's new education funding scheme includes a «money follows the child formula» that would force local districts to use local tax dollars to subsidize the privately owned and operated charter schools in their communities, the Governor's budget does shovel even more state taxpayer funds to the charter school industry.

Trap - and - kill, on the other hand, is more likely to rely entirely on local tax dollars.

In Illinois, which added more than 700 gigawatts of wind last year, wind farms have generated tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue for local governments and school districts, according to a recent Illinois State University study.