Sentences with phrase «more taxpayer money on»

Both groups are broadly inclined away from conspiracy theories, with the exception being the only positive assent to the conspiracy theory that — «The claim that the climate is changing due to emissions from fossil fuels is a hoax perpetrated by corrupt scientists who wish to spend more taxpayer money on climate research».

Brian Leinhauser, Dual Language's solicitor, said he hopes the district does not expend more taxpayer money on appeal.

This would avoid wasting more taxpayer money on a failing initiative at a time when schools are struggling financially.»

Not exact matches

The alternative, issuing bonds and borrowing money, could cost taxpayers $ 4 million more because of interest payments on the debt, park officials have said.

But as is the Dems recklessly spend money on useless / worthless expenses and then come back to hit the taxpayer with more taxes.

Maude began and ended quite touchy - feely, but the meat of the piece fairly accurately represented what you might expect a Tory platform on the third sector to look like: we need a «rehabilitation revolution'to tackle unprecedented levels of reoffending, fuelled by addiction, illiteracy and family breakdown; the state consistently fails to get those who have never worked, lone parents, and those on incapacity benefit back to work; charities should be paid by results; and the third sector is means of saving taxpayer money and delivering services more efficiently and effectively.

More taxpayer money also will be spent on congressional security.

Under the previous government charities came to rely more and more on taxpayers» money, to the extent that parts of the voluntary sector practically became another arm of the state.

«The 2018 Proposed Budget builds on our strengths, addresses areas in our community that need attention, and returns more money to taxpayers» pockets.

Although, certain «elite» universities seem to strongly favour overseas students (mostly American), especially on postgraduate courses, no doubt because they are far more lucrative than home - based students (highly ironic, considering the recent funding outcry - more money from the taxpayer for the best tutors to tutor the wealthier overseas students).

* David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, spent more than # 10,000 of taxpayers» money on home renovations and furnishings, including a new # 5,700 portico at his home in Yorkshire.

The Empire Center's E.J. McMahon said an analysis of federal data on wages paid finds the law's interpretation is outdated and that New York may be paying more in taxpayer money than is necessary — up to 25 percent more for some projects in some regions of the state.

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.

The Mayor also proposed a plan for City Council to grant the city the power to sell Emergency Repair Program liens that exist on a property to a third party collector (see video above), who would then be in charge of collecting on the debt — saving taxpayer money from footing the bills for emergency repairs and possibly giving landlords more incentive to make repairs themselves.

According to Kindlon, more than $ 167,000 in taxpayer money had already been spent since February on outside attorneys hired to defend Soares in the civil lawsuit filed as a result of the DA's high - profile Florida steroids case.

It may shock many readers to learn that more than # 13 billion of taxpayer's money is spent on sickness and incapacity benefits for people of working age, as pointed out by minister for disabled people Mike Penning this week.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who once spent taxpayer money so he could go horseback riding with Vice President Pence, racked up more than $ 14,000 on government helicopters this summer.

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.

Last year, Malloy and his Republican opponent, Tom Foley, each received more than $ 6 million in taxpayer funds for his campaign, on the promise that each wouldn't accept state contractors» money.

There is simply no time for a Select Committee, even if a full set of members is nominated to serve on it, to conduct any meaningful inquiries... The reality is that this will be another talking shop that costs taxpayers more money at the time that they can least afford it.»

«So we're imposing additional costs on the communities that would have gotten these monies at a low interest rate, and their property taxpayers are going to have to pay more for the projects that they need to do.»

The board is divided on whether Ciminelli should be held more accountable for how it spent $ 1.4 billion in taxpayer money, but all members Monday agreed that the supplemental information requested in previous months by school board members Larry Quinn and Carl Paladino was not provided to the board early enough for a careful review.

Cuomo is just pissing away more of the taxpayers» money on another patronage appointment.

«I laugh at all those who turned up their nose at me,» said Shirley L. Huntley, a former state senator from Queens who spent 10 months in federal prison in Danbury, Conn. — the institution on which the women's prison in «Orange Is the New Black» is based — after pleading guilty in 2013 to stealing more than $ 87,000 in taxpayer money through a nonprofit she ran.

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

«Jeff Klein and his fellow Senate Democrats raised taxes on New Yorkers by more than $ 14 billion dollars the last two years, cost the state tens of thousands of jobs, took away billions in property tax relief from homeowners and spent taxpayer money like drunken sailors.»

It included sessions on how to make committees even more effective in how they oversee the spending of taxpayers» money.

David Davis The former shadow Home Secretary spent more than # 10,000 of taxpayers» money on home improvements in four years, including a # 5,700 portico at his home in Yorkshire, it was disclosed.

General Motors Corp. will soon report back to the government on the progress of its restructuring efforts, and many analysts believe the giant automaker will ask for more taxpayer money to help it weather the storm.

Federal research agencies have an obligation to explain to American taxpayers why their money is being used on such research instead of on more worthy projects.»

Principal Bob Isherwood would love to see more money spent on technology, but, he says, «When it is left up to local school boards and taxpayers, they rarely want to spend the money.»

While I absolutely agree that too much of our taxpayers» money is spent on stuff that isn't making our schools better, I couldn't disagree more with what Peterson identifies as fat.

A veteran of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, he now leads an investment group that specializes in raising money for businesses looking to tap into more than $ 1 trillion in taxpayer money spent annually on primary education.

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.

A couple of weeks ago, Edunomics Lab, a university - based research center that focuses on «exploring and modeling complex education finance decisions,» released a report in which it claims to have figured out a way to pay some teachers more without taking money away from other areas or sticking it to the taxpayer.

In addition, later this month Lim and Superintendent Ramon Cortines plans to ask the Bond Oversight Committee, a panel that advises the district on spending taxpayer bond dollars, for money to buy thousands more testing devices.

Second in a series on the attempt by Achievement First Inc. to collect even more money from Connecticut's taxpayers.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

Despite all the problems that have recently cropped up in the last year concerning the utter lack of accountability for private schools and for - profit managed charters receiving public taxpayer dollars, Speaker Corcoran seems intent on giving more and more money away to those who will line their own pockets rather than educate our children.

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

The government has been accused of wasting taxpayers» money on its flagship free school project after an investigation found more than half of new places were in areas they were «not needed».

Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, said in theory, the accounts provide parents with more flexibility because the money doesn't just have to be spent on private school tuition like in the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher program.

Some districts are asking for more money from their county commissioners, placing the burden of the General Assembly's unfunded mandate on local taxpayers.

All that and more plus guest host Murray Feldman from Fox 2 News, Detroit wonders when or if the American taxpayer will ever make money or break even on their investments in automakers.

See the 10 most common deductions taxpayers miss on their tax returns so you can keep more money in your pocket.

Since they are neither privately or publicly held and funded with taxpayer money they have been the slowest to react to the need for more stringent mortgage underwriting guidelines to lessen the chance of future defaults on each mortgage they issue.

The belief held by the Obama Administration seemed to be that IDR plans could save taxpayers money by preventing more borrowers from defaulting on their loans.

the idea that your credit score will drop has little bearing on «how badly you will hurt» when your interest rates, as a good, and honest payer, are «jacked up» to the sky... and your rate goes from 8 % to 19.9 % or higher fulfilling the banks lust for more profits off your back and the backs of other good, long - time reliable customers... these immoral acts, taking our TARP money from the taxpayers are payback for «your loyalty»... your credit score will recover... paying «usuary rates» just to keep «their card» and now their fees just to have their card even though you carry no balance is blackmail... close their cards and never do business with them ever again... slime...

By requiring lenders to hold back more money in their own reserves — to cover potential defaults, should markets correct and prices fall — OSFI is reducing taxpayer's risk at having to cover a shortfall and putting more responsibility on mortgage lenders.

While not commenting on those developments, studio founder Curt Schilling has shared that they're «not asking the taxpayers for more money.»