Sentences with phrase «of taxpayer money»

She said such audits are also a waste of taxpayer money since the city is already eager to hire women and minorities.

I'm all for more efficient use of taxpayer monies when it comes to education!

But hey... we're only paying these out - of - state consultants a million dollars of our taxpayer money so maybe we deserve the «B» team.

They believed farmers should be paid a great deal more of the taxpayers money for solving a problem that they don't believe exists.

To the average voter, it appears to be a way of making a real difference to people's lives without spending huge amounts of taxpayer money.

Clear - cut fraud and misuse of taxpayer money!

Especially since it's roughly a billion dollars worth of taxpayer money.

As a doctor, he never accepted a cent of taxpayer money because he believed it was wrong.

But it is the duty of government to make difficult choices about priorities and to get maximum value for every pound of taxpayer money it spends.

That year the pool of taxpayer money Silver used for the grants was eliminated, according to papers.

This will direct millions of dollars a year of taxpayer money to much needed investment in infrastructure.

This is a pure advocacy article written by someone in a PR shop defending the allocation of taxpayer money to a hedge fund that doesn't need the money.

And the three banks which were in receipt of taxpayer money are all now performing well and on course to pay that investment back in full.

The quest for private donations without public financing can not match the overwhelming power of the small amounts needed to qualify for huge grants of taxpayer money.

It will take time and sensible application of taxpayer money.

This is just a big waste of our taxpayer money.

This program is an inefficient use of taxpayer money, costing more to operate than will potentially be saved.

When it comes to investing such a substantial amount of taxpayer money, the expectation that updates and reports will be provided in a timely manner should be higher than ever.

Over the last two years the HPSD has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on lawsuits trying to stop the popular charter school from expanding to 8

Huntley was arrested last month on charges of covering up the theft of taxpayer money earmarked for the Long Island non-profit she founded.

3) BSL is such a huge waste of taxpayer money by spending animal control resources, kenneling spaces, and legal services time defending the law by focusing so many resource on dogs that WERE NOT A PROBLEM.

Billions of taxpayer money wasted on wind turbines and solar power.

The change comes as members of the British Parliament are under fire for spending huge sums of taxpayer money through their public accounts on such expenses as cleaning a moat and having light bulbs installed in their homes.

With free tuition, that dropout rate can be expected to go considerably higher, meaning a great deal of taxpayer money spent would be flushed down the drain.

QUEENS — State Sen. Shirley Huntley was arrested Monday on charges of covering up the theft of taxpayer money earmarked for Long Island non-profit she founded, according to sources and reports.

«I had this mental image of a lot of bureaucrats who had never worked with stress situations before, throwing a lot of taxpayer money at it, making the problem worse, wasting a lot of money,» Wilson said.

My office's partnership with the Comptroller is designed to combat such corruption, and we will continue to work tirelessly to protect every penny of taxpayer money during these challenging economic times.»

Today, Connecticut is dumping $ 100 million dollars of taxpayer money into charter schools every year with little to no oversight and the governor's proposed budget contains funding for an additional four.

Looks like Howie Hawkins ran his grocery store into the ground squandering millions of taxpayer money on another bad, ill - advised upstate development project.

«We're confident,» Stefan Friedman, a Genting spokesman, said, «that once New Yorkers understand that Genting is proposing to pay for — without a dime of taxpayer money — the biggest convention center in the country, creating tens of thousands of jobs and generating untold billions of dollars in revenue for the state, support for this project will be robust.»

Catering with a Flair was at the center of allegations by state investigators of misuse of taxpayer money at the fairgrounds, including criminal charges against the fair's former director.

The school industry is huge, and Dell wants more of taxpayers money, but there is nothing in particular about these tablets that make then more fit for school or education than any other tablets.

«It's an example of taxpayers» money being lost and this loss of taxpayer money follows on the heels of the CityTime losses.

A now - bankrupt solar energy company flushed half a billion dollars of taxpayer money down the toilet — after President Obama said it was a poster child of the new green economy.

For us it's not a question of taxpayer money which — based on your comments — is the situation in the US.

«Probably millions of dollars of taxpayer money going to research the issue and they come up with a qualitative maybe there's an issue there?

It's crucial this year that we send a message to Barney Frank and all the other gleeful, shameless spenders of taxpayer money in Washington that enough is enough.»

The campaign released two government - funded mailers from Martins's office, calling it an abuse of taxpayer money.

Still, the latest report totally contradicts alarmist forecasts about surging temperature increases that have served to justify massive expenditures of taxpayer money around the world.

On Tuesday, three taxpayer advocates from Clarkstown — blogger Michael N. Hull, Thomas G. Nimick, and failed 2011 GOP supervisor candidate Ralph Sabatini — served the Town of Clarkstown, the town board and Supervisor Alex Gromack with a lawsuit asking for return of taxpayer monies allegedly squandered through wasteful political patronage appointments in the Town Attorneys Office.

On Tuesday, three taxpayer advocates from Clarkstown — blogger Michael N. Hull, Thomas G. Nimick, and failed 2011 GOP supervisor candidate Ralph Sabatini — served the Town of Clarkstown, the town board and Supervisor Alex Gromack with a lawsuit asking for return of taxpayer monies allegedly -LSB-...]

(Bloomberg)-- Fannie Mae will request an infusion of taxpayer money for the first time since 2012 because of an unintended but anticipated side effect of the corporate tax cut signed into law in December.

«My office's partnership with the comptroller is designed to combat such corruption, and we will work tirelessly to protect every penny of taxpayer money during these challenging economic times.»

In February, Ms. Huntley pleaded guilty in state court to falsifying evidence in a bid to cover up the theft of taxpayer money from another nonprofit organization.

But in some ways that's the most amazing thing of all about this extraordinary affair, which must surely represent the biggest peacetime waste of taxpayers money in history, the biggest scientific scandal in history, and the most extravagant and widely promulgated lie in history: the sheer brazenness of these tricksters» enterprise.

(Don't even get me cranked up again on the scandal of Head Start, an old and iconic federal program that's well - targeted on needy little kids and spends a great deal of taxpayer money on them, but does not have academic standards, an organized preschool curriculum, or any real accountability for the results it delivers.)

Although Republicans have tried to paint recipients of the federal loans as incorrigible wasters of taxpayer money, a number of established blue chip firms also received much more financing from the same program to advance their own electric vehicle technology, among them Ford and Nissan, which got $ 6 billion and $ 1.4 billion respectively.