Sentences with phrase «more tax payer»

However other countries spend even more tax payer money on fossil fuel subsidies of various forms, including subsidising producers, tax credits, and keeping petrol artificially cheap.

No more tax payer dollars for you.

«Sadly, he seems oblivious to the state of affairs evidenced by his cynical efforts to give away even more tax payer dollars hobnobbing in Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood.»

Spending more tax payer dollars and resources on fighting over what to teach them.

broaden the tax base to rope in more tax payers into the tax net.

Not exact matches

Of course, these various rates mean individual tax payers could end up paying more or less.

Though only a small percentage of taxpayers have such high incomes, research suggests that high - income tax payers are more responsive to tax reforms that affect charitable giving because they have more income, more tax advisers, and more incentive to devote time to figuring out the after - tax price of giving.

Dividend income is tax - free for lower - rate tax payers in the UK, for instance, so you may find you «take home» more than you did when working!

It makes some crimes legal, and then harshly punishes other crimes, and then does nothing to help those who have been judged guilty, and in the process of trying to help them, only robs the tax payers of more money.

If just half of that was spent on rehabilitation instead of just churning out more hardened criminals I believe the incarceration numbers would plummet which would be great for the tax payers but terrible for the investors and owners of the private prisons.

I would argue that there is no moral principle that say I should have to be taxed more (of my hard earned and well saved / spent dollars) to support idiots who think they can spend spend spend and let good ole» uncle sam and the other hard working tax payers bail them out!

This drives the cost to the tax payer up much more than a universal health care program that would treat everyone fairly by private physicians and use the more expensive emergency rooms for emergencies as they were intended.

The more tax - payers «outside» school culture demand changes, the more those decision - makers elected by the tax payers will have to listen.

Six in ten say that families with a higher - rate tax payer, earning more than # 42,000 a year, should not be entitled to child benefits.

In a related development, the State's Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Mustapha Akinkunmi, urged citizens to continue to pay their taxes as at when due, since according to him, more facilities are being provided by government through the tax payers» obligation to government.

In a stark contrast to the current system, the tax payers do not have incentive to introduce ever newer and higher taxes that allow ever more rules and redistribution.

The concern is that borrowing from union pensions is so much more expensive than borrowing via bonds, that it is hard to see how the tax payer comes out ahead.

FPI joined the rally, where ordinary tax payers, elected officials, community organizations and labor unions called for a 0.5 % New York State tax on stock buyback trades, which would mean corporations using their federal tax cuts simply to benefit their shareholders would have to pay a small New York State tax on... (read more)

Theresa May's ministers, especially Jeremy Hunt, Justine Greening and Amber Rudd could do well to read Ken's chapters on how he took on the unions who were more concerned at protecting their privileges than the customer or tax payer — the BMA, the NUT and the Police Federation just to pick a sample.

On the speculation that Buhari was being treated with tax payers» money, Okorocha said: «If there is an announcer that President Buhari today lacks money to treat himself abroad, believe me, more than 20 million Nigerians will contribute for his health.

No more bloated tax - payer funded pensions.

Tyner called for a «living minimum wage» that would rise to $ 15 an hour by 2020 for companies employing 500 people or more; single - payer health care in New York state; a tax system that would reduce the burden of school taxes on property owners; and the legalization of small amounts of recreational marijuana for adults.

Sitting at a meeting with one or more of them is excruciating to see the utter waste of tax payer $ on people and projects totally disconnected from any real community initiative.

«People who are very wealthy, particularly payers of capital gains tax, people on very high incomes who get substantial income relief under the income tax system should pay more, in order that poorer people and indeed people on middle incomes are lifted out of tax altogether.»

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

And that money will enable the county to pursue foreclosure action against more delinquent property tax payers, overall, than it has in the past 15 years.

«It can not be considered efficient if the Coalition Government writes off more than # 160 million of tax payers» money and yet, at the same time, persists with a policy of creating academies and free schools that are both expensive and unwanted by the public.

«For me, the fact that we are able to extend the property tax cap, that we are providing some relief to our property tax payers despite the fact we could've done so much more with significant mandate relief,» Assemblyman Bob Oaks said on the floor.

This year, more than 200 county jobs were funded but left vacant at one time costing tax payers.

According to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Habib Haruna, the governor, while inaugurating roads in Epe and Kosofe local government areas, said tax payers deserved more praise for the projects.

His hopes are that the proposal will protect tax payers, should there be more incidents like this in the future.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

Mr. Cuomo and lawmakers should look at his ideas — his Green New Deal plan to boost employment through sustainable energy jobs; to raise the minimum wage; to develop an even more progressive tax system; and to promote a statewide, single payer health care program.

It's also worth noting that a rainbow coalition held together by the SNP and Plaid votes would probably get English people (who consistently vote Tory on average) angry enough to leave the union... as things are, I think it is the case that there is more support for Scottish independence in England than there is in Scotland, partly because of the West Lothian question, partly because the Barret formula is (rightly) seen as subsidizing the Scots with (quite a lot of) English tax payers cash...

And that money will enable the county to pursue foreclosures against more delinquent property tax payers, overall, than it has in the past 15 years.

The expansion of this bill will ensure that tax payer subsidized developments work for even more New Yorkers and we applaudMayor de Blasio for it.

He also wants the state to enact a single - payer universal healthcare system, which would lower over health care costs by more than $ 50 billion annually while ending the need for counties to use the property tax to pay for Medicaid.

Progressive Taxes and Revenue Sharing to end the fiscal crises of our local governments and schools, Tuition - Free Public Colleges and Universities, Single Payer Health Care, $ 15 Minimum Wage, Public Banking, Union Co-ops, a Ban on Fracking, a Climate Acton Program scaled up to meet the crisis, and more.

«[explicative] the American tax payer,» Hill's character says when faced with doing what's right or making more money.

This means, unfortunately, there is likely to be millions more of tax payers money that's been inappropriately spent.

That return underlines what incredible value the Foundation delivers for the tax payer, all the more remarkable when compared to other countries where all the costs of improving school sports facilities have to come from the public purse.

She added: «We hope that LocatED will behave more responsibly with tax payers» money when purchasing land and buildings for the new schools that we need.

With only 175,000 students throughout the state, the legislature agreed that a merger would be more efficient and would benefit students, parents, schools and tax payers.

American tax payers are going to oppose this after seeing the mistakes that this program... Read More

Instead, if truely gifted children can not be accommodated in local secondary schools, then as HR tax payers I would be more than pleased to educated them in the private sector with assisted places grants.

They conveniently ignore the fact that the SBAC test has cost Washington state tax payers more than $ 300 million to implement.

Because of the new federal relief which allows the $ 10,000 deduction, however, this option is likely to be much more attractive to tax payers, causing states to lose a portion of their taxable base.

Charter schools are classified as public schools and funded by Missouri tax payers; however, they operate more like private schools.

In 1999 charter schools were given the OK to open in the St. Louis and Kansas City Public School Districts; since then Missouri tax payers have sunk more than $ 620 million into twenty - one charter schools that failed.

Now I understand that it would be bad business to highlight the weaknesses of the organization, but if what's good for TFA is bad for the country's education system then it is quite irresponsible for TFA not to give the whole story so legislators can make informed decisions about, for example, whether or not to spend millions of dollars of tax payer money to bring more TFAers to their districts.