Sentences with phrase «of federal taxpayer»

But the essential problem is identical: an enforced «consensus» causing billions upon billions of federal taxpayer dollars to be spent on worthless research that is then used as a basis for coercive government policy.

These elites live and work in the D.C. micro-climate warming bubble that is a direct result of federal taxpayer asphalt, steel, concrete and airports with very hot jet exhausts, which in combination have produced a rapidly warming urban heat island (UHI).

Doyle also urged the Wisconsin congressional delegation to lead the fight to repeal a federal law that bars the use of federal taxpayer money for experiments that destroy human embryos.

If Quebec's economy minister Jacques Daoust followed through on his promise (and there's no reason to think he didn't), within minutes of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing his new cabinet on Wednesday, Daoust commenced the latest shakedown of federal taxpayers on behalf of Bombardier.

I'm not sure a poll of federal taxpayers and parents would find the time and effort spent by these employees on the journal article — which I personally viewed purely as a form of reputational damage control — to be a worthy use of these funds when other aspects of our meal program are in clear need of improvement.

President Bush wrote that this was why in 2001 he pushed for NCLB's accountability - through - testing as a performance audit of the spending of federal taxpayers» dollars.

Not exact matches

The ostensible goal of the individual AMT is to prevent wealthy taxpayers from paying little to no federal tax.

Taxpayers» strategy in late 2012 that aimed at avoiding federal income tax hikes in 2013 produced a 10.8 % jump in state personal income tax collections in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the same period the previous year, researchers found.

However, most donors don't take a deduction for their charitable contributions: Federal data show that in 2016, taxpayers claimed $ 57.55 billion for their donations, with most of the deductions going to higher earners.

One of the major problems with Australian politics at both the state and federal level is taxpayer funding of election campaigns.

A study that analyzed tax data from 2012 to 2016 found 17 percent of taxpayers faced a federal tax bill.

«We're not going to increase the cost of internet service; we're not going to impose more taxes on Quebecers, on taxpayers,» he said during a visit to a Montreal community organization to promote this week's federal budget.

Admittedly, it takes a rather mundane $ 135,055 of individual annual income to make it into the top federal tax bracket in Canada, as opposed to more than US$ 400,000 in the U.S. Taxpayers who fall below that U.S. threshold are, generally speaking, better off south of the border.

Kevin Gaudet, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, laments EDC's growing influence.

Between 2010 and 2012, taxpayers in the Peach State claimed about 36 % of all federal tax deductions for easements — despite having only 2.5 % of the nation's land under easement, according to a May 2017 report that Looney, the former Treasury official, published for the Brookings Institution, where he's now a senior fellow in economic studies.

Although most high - income taxpayers claim a SALT deduction, the federal individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) limits or eliminates the benefit for many of them.

A federal agency that insured more than half of all loans for first - time homebuyers last year may soon look to taxpayers to shore up its dwindling finances.

As Paulson, Geithner and the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, raced to bail out banks and companies like A.I.G., Bair resisted, fearing that they were being overly generous by putting the interests of bondholders over those of taxpayers.

There is only one taxpayer and it is extremely important that Parliamentarians and Canadians fully comprehend the implications of federal actions, not only on federal finances, but on the provincial finances as well.

Taxpayers who pay federal taxes on Social Security can subtract the taxed benefits out of their taxable income on their Maryland tax return.

Nebraska Child / Dependent Care Credit — available to taxpayers with AGI less than $ 29,000, equal to between 100 % and 30 % of the federal credit

I'm not sure how Obama thinks he can smooth this one by all Federal taxpayers outside of the State of Illinois (which itself is running something like an admitted $ 21 billion budget deficit).

What's overheating is the amount of «conforming» mortgage debt underwritten by the Federal Government on behalf of taxpayer.

Keep in mind, the majority of education tax breaks are designed for taxpayers who are single filers or who use the «married filing jointly» filing status on their Federal return.

In 2013, the Walton family received $ 8 billion in tax breaks, $ 6.2 billion of which came from federal taxpayer subsidies handed to them because employee wages are so low.

Taxpayers would lose the ability to deduct their state and local property and other taxes from their federal taxes, a break used by about 44 million people (or 30 percent of tax filers.)

and Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the federal watchdog agency to research and report on the economic subsidy that too - big - to - fail banks receive as a result of actual or perceived taxpayer support.

In other words, Quebec and federal taxpayers are being asked to pony up to protect the financial well - being of the family, which, incidentally, received approximately $ 150 million in dividend payments from Bombardier over the last decade, even as the company has yet to repay all the money its borrowed from the federal government in the past.

Consider a single taxpayer with a federal marginal income tax rate of twenty - eight percent with $ 150,000 of taxable income.

But given that the tax bill severely curtails the state and local deduction for most if not all individuals, many more taxpayers could take advantage of state - level initiatives that essentially reclassify state and local tax payments as federal charitable contributions.

Despite strong support for sending federal Conservatives to Ottawa, Alberta is now a much more progressive and moderate province than it was 20 years ago, when a young Mr. Kenney was roaming the halls of the Legislature as the spokesperson for the taxpayers federation.

«AIG received a taxpayer backstop of $ 185 billion and had to be taken over by the Federal government.

Kleck just learned that almost immediately after the publication of his study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that receives more than $ 11 billion of taxpayer money every year, conducted its own study of the matter.

Each of those four banks also have an outsized presence on Wall Street; each of them received taxpayer bailouts during the 2008 crash; each received secret, below - market interest rate loans from the Federal Reserve during the crisis; and three of them (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank) are currently holding tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives within the insured banking subsidiary — meaning there would be a forced taxpayer bailout if the derivatives blew up the bank.

As the Trump administration rolls back the greater regulatory scrutiny the for - profit college industry has faced during the last several years, it is private equity that stands to benefit the most, posing continuing dangers to students, taxpayers, and the integrity of the federal financial aid system.

From a tax perspective, readers may want to know that there is something that federal tax code calls the passive loss limitation rules that prevent taxpayers from offsetting passive losses against other forms of income.

Under House Bill 2014, introduced by Representative Mark Finchem (R - Tucson), Arizona taxpayers will simply back out all precious metals «gains» and «losses» reported on their federal tax returns from the calculation of their Arizona adjusted gross income (AGI).

According to Politico, late Monday night, the Department of Education told a federal appeals court that a court order blocking its ability to send any newly defaulted student loan borrowers to its hired debt collectors has cost taxpayers more than $ 5 million in lost collections since

Responding affirmatively in a letter to the editor published the next day, NAHB Chairman Kevin Kelly said that Rep. Carney's House bill to maintain a proper federal role in housing would encourage the private market to take a greater role in the mortgage marketplace and provide stability and liquidity for homeownership while limiting taxpayer exposure in the event of another downturn.

This taxpayer will generally get to deduct 20 % of his or her business income before calculating how much is owed in federal income tax.

(if you want to make a donation, make the check out to the USA Federal government i.e. us taxpayers whose contributions to disasters like Haiti and Ja - pan far exceed those of the «non-profits» and we do so without all the «Jesus Saves» mumbo jumbo.)

She has also advocated for ending the pro-life Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1976 and passed in some form ever since, which prevents taxpayer funding of elective abortions through federal programs like Medicaid.

«Federal taxpayer subsidies are helping pay for over 1,000 health plans that cover abortion on demand, and [last week's] Supreme Court decision underscores that only Congress can put a stop to that,» said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

«This decision again demonstrates the need for enactment of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which would permanently prevent taxpayer subsidies for abortion - covering health plans, both in ObamaCare and in other federal health benefits programs.»

The underlying assumption is that tax exemption is a public subsidy, a form of federal financial assistance, and that other taxpayers must make up the taxes not exacted from an exempt entity.

Bush even draws attention to the unique difficulties that present itself to the federal government as a democratic body that represents a constituency with diverse moral worldviews and that therefore has a «duty to exercise responsible stewardship of taxpayer funds».

She praised Trump «for protecting the conscience rights of American taxpayers and prioritizing federal funding for organizations that protect life over those that take it away.»

As for their salaries, the «operation of the program» is funded through (a) federal reimbursement, which is derived from taxpayer dollars and (b) cash payments from district parents who can afford to pay for all or a portion of their children's meals.

But if Congress increases reimbursement rates without reforming the use of federal funds in school food budgets, the end result could be significant costs to taxpayers coupled with little improvement in the quality of meals served.

And in that context, why shouldn't the federal government make those meals as healthful as practicable, especially since the consequences of poor childhood nutrition — obesity, obesity - related diseases, health care costs, lack of military readiness — are all borne in part by taxpayers?