Sentences with phrase «of taxpayer funds»

One might well argue that this is a worthy use of taxpayer funds, but in the narrow context of determining the program's fiscal effects, it counts as a negative impact.

Why worry about the volatile land of derivatives and such when there are plenty of little bodies (and the continual flow of taxpayer funds) that will provide reliable and plump portfolios?

Nor has it increased voter turn - out — all things proponents of taxpayer funded campaigns say it would.

A candidate would raise a modest amount of money in small contributions of no more than $ 100 each and then dive into the honey pot of taxpayer funds.

So even though they account for just one in ten prisons and less than one in five prisoners, private prisons use nearly a quarter of taxpayer funding.

Not everyone thinks the distribution of taxpayer funds to the regions is a good idea.

Their proposal will also provide computer companies, software companies, testing companies and educational consulting companies with an even greater share of the taxpayer funds being spent on public education.

For teacher unions, their salaries are issues of taxpayer funding and state budgets, not private business negotiations.

A dollar - for - dollar credit operates less like a tax incentive and more like a direct transfer of taxpayer funds away from the public education fund and into private hands.

If done wrong, it could lead to the loss of taxpayer funds or even the compromising of student loan borrower information.

To be of the opinion that all government and all that government does is a waste of taxpayer funds is ridiculous.

Shulkin is one of several Cabinet officials who have faced ethics questions over misuse of taxpayer funds, with his relating to an expensive European trip.

Official designation gives the campaign access to a certain amount of taxpayer funding for operational costs, a Royal Mail free delivery to every voter, and two Referendum Broadcasts on the main television channels and radio stations.

(The new research presumably relied on nonfederal government funding, since Congress prohibits the use of taxpayer funds on research that destroys human embryos.)

Democratic lawmakers released a six - page letter detailing new allegations of «wasteful spending of taxpayer funds» by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Could it perhaps be that having become embroiled in «the largest science scandal in US history» and now being under investigation for «double - dipping» and the potential misuse of $ 63 million worth of taxpayer funded grants, Shukla feels somewhat less confident of holding the moral high ground?

In the midst of their budget slashing frenzy, Malloy and Wyman are actually increasing the amount of taxpayer funds going to Connecticut's privately owned charter schools.

Board Approves $ 485.5 m For SolarCity / RiverBend Without Getting Answers Today, the Public Authorities Control Board failed to do its job, which is to hold state agencies accountable before approving huge sums of taxpayer funds.

«The legal fees that are utilized to protect the town by retaining this firm come out of our budget, comes out of taxpayer funds,» Town Supervisor John Venditto said in response to a question from a resident at a Sept. 1 board meeting about approving $ 250,000 to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP in Manhattan for potential Singh - related litigation.

The governor has proposed legislation to create a uniform sexual harassment policy for government entities throughout the state and bar the use of taxpayer funds in settlements against harassing individuals.

The Commons public accounts committee will say on Wednesday that ministers have staked billions of taxpayer funds on the untested housing strategy and violated Treasury guidelines.

Anyone who watched the adjournment debate initiated by Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley last month on the subject of taxpayer funding of trade unions will be aware that it is a subject which arouses passion in politicians on all sides of the House.

The biggest recipient of the taxpayer funded program is Greensboro Islamic Academy, which by the end of fall 2014 had received $ 93,000 in public dollars.

The Governor has said he'll hold up the budget if he does not get total disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, and an end to the abuse of taxpayer funded expense accounts.

The objective evidence does not support spending millions of dollars of taxpayer funding on the D.C. private school voucher program.

The Espadas» defense lawyer, the Daily News reports, is claiming the men assumed their use of taxpayer funds from the Soundview Health Clinics they controlled — to pay for things like sushi restaurant tabs and birthday party pony rides — were legal because the expenses were approved by an accounting firm.

Malisa Rivera (l) and Marion Moses say state Sen. James Sanders demanded a cut of taxpayer funds meant for their urban - farming nonprofit.

Malloy who dramatically increased the amount of taxpayer funds diverted to charter schools and private companies.

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is under fire for his misuse of taxpayer funds during a trip to Europe.

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».

For Gordon Brown rejects the very idea that there should be alternative providers of taxpayer funded public services.»

«I certainly don't want any voters to learn the size of my taxpayer funded TARP bonus.

Horner came on the podcast to talk about the misuse of taxpayer funds with the stipend practice and urged the state Senate to reform the process.

Today the Prime Minister has been found by the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee to have inadvertently broken the rules relating to the sub-letting of taxpayer funded constituency offices.

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.

We saw success statewide when voters approved a constitutional amendment to strip elected officials convicted of felonies of their taxpayer funded pensions, a measure previously approved by both the Senate and Assembly.

The charter schools of Success Academy are public schools, paid for a combination of taxpayer funds and privately raised donations.

Statewide, 57 percent of New Yorkers support the idea of a taxpayer funded campaign finance system, (in other words, using public dollars to match donations to candidates while also lowering contribution limits).

ALBANY — The Ruben Wills indictment comes at a bad time for Gov. Cuomo, the Working Families Party and other advocates of taxpayer funding for political campaigns.

«Rather, it is a repeated tendency of the State to delay, blunt, or otherwise prevent us here locally from taking action when we see obvious signs of fraud, abuse or misapplication of taxpayer funds that is the problem.»

The state of Georgia has consistently incurred the expenditure of taxpayer funds to defend itself against ballot access lawsuits brought by candidates and political parties

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he wasn't surprised that his Moreland Commission investigating public corruption was split along partisan lines on the question of taxpayer funding for campaigns.

Critics say the city's payments to restore Reliant workers are a giveaway of taxpayer funds and possibly illegal.

JCOPE is the latest agency to launch an investigation into the allegation of nepotism and misuse of taxpayer funds against embattled Assemblywoman Rivera.

Public anger escalated last week after it emerged that an «actuarial deficit» in the second pension scheme will require an extra # 187m of taxpayer funding to plug the gap.

This expense, and the program's troubled history, has made the F - 35 the poster child for the Pentagon's mismanagement of taxpayer funds.