Sentences with phrase «more public taxpayer»

Lots of golfers and corporate types from ConnCAN and RI - CAN are anxious to get more charter schools and to see more public taxpayer money.

Not exact matches

France's mostly taxpayer - funded public pension system may do better at ensuring every retiree is sufficiently funded (for now), and America's mostly private pension patchwork may be more sustainable into the future, but our hybrid system of individual -, employer - and government - funded benefits ranks high on both criteria, sufficiency and sustainability — «which is uncommon,» says Morin

The standout line being that Ontario's taxpayers had paid $ 8 billion more using alternative financing procurements than if the public sector could manage projects successfully by itself.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Yet privatisation has in general failed to improve the level of services provided to consumers while costing the taxpayer far more than alternative public schemes (see for example Warwick Funnell, Robert Jupe, and Jane Andrew, In Government we Trust).

But he said the gist of the call was that Cuomo had created a commission to investigate public corruption by elected officials, and made specific mention of Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, alleging she has bilked taxpayers out of more money than «some of us take home in a year.»

Only about 5 % of taxpayers choose the $ 3 check off for public campaign funding (which is about $ 23 million per year because there are about 150 million 1040 tax returns filed each year), but public television, radio, the NEA and the NEH might get closer to the 25 - 27 % percent participation that the check off got when it was started (bringing the take to perhaps $ 115 million a year), because their programming is probably more popular than campaign funding for politicians.

One proposal released Wednesday by Cuomo's tax department would create one or more state - operated charitable funds to receive taxpayers» contributions for healthcare and public schools.

Fiscally conservative groups including Unshackle Upstate argue against public financing for elections as nothing more than «labor's latest effort to enhance their political influence at the expense of taxpayers.»

The latest, a report in USA Today that he spent more than $ 200,000 in taxpayer money chartering flights as a senator, helps Republicans argue that he is more interested using his office to help himself rather than the public.

The GOP has long maintained that a matching small donor plan using public funds is a waste of the taxpayers» money, and would only lead to more annoying robo - calls.

In her testimony, Katz said the controversy brought about by these reports illustrated the need for the Queens Library to become more open to the public about how it decides to spend its money, the vast majority of which is made up of taxpayer funds allocated to the Library by the City of New York.

Both Jepsen and Westby are planning on using the state's public campaign finance system, which would give each more than $ 812,000 in taxpayer money to spend on this election.

HARTFORD — State officials said Monday that public campaign financing awards to candidates for 2014 will total more than $ 33 million — a record amount for Connecticut's taxpayer - funded election system.

Outside spending on the contest between Malloy and Republican Tom Foley has reached $ 15 million — more than the combined amount that Malloy and Foley are getting from Connecticut's taxpayer - paid - for public campaign finance system.

The report called for more government action to take account of litter and littering behaviour in the design of Britain's public spaces, based on research that an intelligent approach to designing public spaces can reduce littering at no extra cost to taxpayers.

«It worries me that whenever the Garden Bridge Trust runs into financial trouble, the Department for Transport releases more taxpayers» money before construction has even started,» said chair of the Committee of Public Accounts Meg Hillier MP.

«Taxpayers have the right to expect a more considered and controlled approach to public spending than the department has so far displayed,» public accounts committee chair Margaret Hodge said.

«We need additional disclosure and more transparency, but the abuses that took place in the Liu campaign and in countless others which received public matching funds make it increasingly clear that we don't need taxpayer - funded political campaigns.»

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James burned through nearly all of the more than $ 750,000 in taxpayer matching funds in a lopsided race against a poorly funded opponent — spending $ 500,000 on a single Election Day expenditure, public recordsPublic Advocate Letitia James burned through nearly all of the more than $ 750,000 in taxpayer matching funds in a lopsided race against a poorly funded opponent — spending $ 500,000 on a single Election Day expenditure, public recordspublic records show.

Traditional public employee pension programs in New York State have become unaffordable for taxpayers — while denying workers the ability to choose more flexible approaches to retirement planning.

«The last thing we want taxpayers to feel is that we're dipping into their pockets more and more and not enhancing public safety,» Abrahams said.

And as taxpayers across the state get even more used to the protection provided by the cap, it will become a taller political order for public employee unions and local governments to riddle it with loopholes, as they've been trying to do.

«Given the fact that the state has spent more than $ 11 million in public money to settle sexual harassment claims, this legislative response is essential to protect hardworking taxpayers.»

As she was approaching the threshold to qualify for more than $ 750,000 in taxpayer matching funds, NYC Public Advocate Letitia James» campaign coffers got a boost from her own staff and people connected to her consultants, records show.

Krissy's lawyer's time would have been more in the public interest if she had tried to stop Shelly Silver from spending taxpayers money to pay off a sexual harasssment case against one of the biggest slugs in the legislature, Vito Lopez.

We'd be hazarding our precious low interest rates on a change of course that would put those rates up in the full knowledge that any extra billion pounds of public spending would be wiped out by billions of pounds more in higher interest costs for families, businesses, and taxpayers.

Both candidates want to make permanent the property tax cap, but Kaminsky sometimes seems more concerned about shoring up public union support than about taxpayers.

The comptroller is the sole trustee of a $ 184 billion pension fund for more than 1 million public workers and retirees, with the taxpayers on the line to cover shortfalls.

Research from The TaxPayers» Alliance notes that strikes are now fifteen times more likely in the public than private sectors.

This kind of casual attitude to spending taxpayers» cash undermines faith in the public sector and is yet more evidence of how under Labour the Audit Commission forgot that its job was to protect the public purse.»

Setting a clear cost ceiling for public service pension schemes - the proportion of pensionable pay that taxpayers will contribute to employees» pensions - with automatic stabilisers to keep future costs under more effective control;

He told MPs yesterday: «I think when people will see it, they will see it is fair: fair to the public sector, people in the public sector will get a much more generous pension than is available in almost any part of the private sector; but it is also fair to the taxpayers.»

Taxpayers will realize that they are paying more for public services that have not improved.

And the New York City public schools, rather than extracting and then wasting more of the taxpayers» money, may be forced to finally move beyond «lack of money» excuses and attempt to implement real, research - based reforms.

In public education, the elimination of agency fees would shift more power to states, school boards, parents, and taxpayers.

Similarly, in our recent report on pensions in the state of Illinois, we noted Illinois taxpayers are now contributing more toward teacher pensions alone than for all of the state's public colleges and universities combined.

Moreover, the program has been found to save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars every year because the private sector educates students more economically than does the public sector.

Rising affluence has turned more Brazilians and Chileans into taxpayers, which increases pressure on the government to provide better public services and to meet citizens» demands.

The pity is that private schools may be even more vulnerable to such faddism than public schools that are accountable to taxpayers and elected officials.

Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues - paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class desire for taxpayers to underwrite the routine child - care needs of working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.

«Since this program saves taxpayers money and the legislature will need to appropriate more funding to return these students to the local public schools, which will lead to increase costs to the local district; the legislature should instead provide the funding for the scholarship program to allow parents to choose schools they believe will best educate their children,» Duplessis added.

If taxpayers don't want to see more of their hard - earned tax dollars slip into the black hole that is public education, they certainly better.

Charter schools get taxpayer money but have more freedom than traditional public schools do to map out how they'll meet federal education benchmarks.

Despite occasional taxpayer revolts, the United States has a history of spending more and more each year on public education.

The statement concludes: «There is no reasonable rationale for using taxpayer funds to build more charter schools until and unless the federal government provides resources to build and renovate our traditional public schools, especially in underfunded and overcrowded urban districts, proportional to the number of students currently enrolled in them.»

As more white students left the public system, white taxpayers became reluctant to raise property taxes to fund their public schools.

CCER's political agenda includes more taxpayer funds for charter schools and support for the incredibly unfair «teacher evaluation» system that is designed to denigrate and undermine Connecticut's public school teachers and the teaching profession.

If Californians don't become more informed and demand public access to teacher's contract negotiations — and in fact all public employee contract negotiations — they will continue to let the special interests have their way while the taxpayers get to pay and pay and pay.

Proponents of Initiative 42 argued that the state needs to spend more on education; that schools are not receiving enough money from taxpayers and this is the cause of our public education woes.