Sentences with phrase «of taxpayer money down»

Obama refused to listen to experts and poured $ 535 Million of taxpayers money down the John.

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Transparency is the key to driving taxes down by exposing stealth taxes and leaving more money in the pockets of taxpayers, where it belongs.

State Sen. Shirley Huntley desperately tried to cover up the theft of $ 30,000 in taxpayer money from her «sham» nonprofit as a grand - jury probe bore down on her, sources claimed and documents indicated yesterday.

In contrast there are other facilities that house less than 300 inmates, do not own their power plants, do not own their actual buildings (that's right the State leases them for tens of millions of dollars yearly with taxpayers money) on prime NYC real estate and are falling down around the people who work there.

The idea behind Connecticut's public campaign financing system was that replacing major amounts of special interest money in the election process with taxpayer dollars would cut down on influence peddling and state corruption.

«I had a decision to make, whether to use per diems, taxpayer money, to use like every elected official with the exception of the governor, uses in Albany or use funds, my private campaign funds before making a more permanent decision down the road,» Duffy said.

Lord Adonis is calling for the resignation of transport secretary Chris Grayling for using hundreds of millions in taxpayers» money to bail out private rail companies — a decision which the former government infrastructure tsar says is symptomatic of a government that has «broken down» under the strain of Brexit.

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.

«Mr. Trump held a fundraiser down in New York City a few weeks back and did raise some money, but they have — I would use the word — «struggled» to raise the private funds needed to pay these individuals who are working on behalf of the taxpayers but not being paid by the government,» said Congressman Chris Collins, who has been an advocate for Trump since early in his presidential campaign.

«They're cutting down trees at taxpayers» expense, which is money you're not getting for your area, and second of all, we find that a protected Northern Rockies would contribute to mitigating climate change.»

Norquist says tearing down the Skyway could make life better in Buffalo, save taxpayers money and create all types of new development.

As a result, a mistrial is a very distinct possibility, and now Garcetti really is worried about his poll numbers, foreseeing a year's worth of work and $ 6 million of taxpayer money about to be flushed down the drain.

For the third time, a Florida court has struck down the state's best - known voucher program, calling it unconstitutional because it allows students to attend religious schools with taxpayer money — a violation, the court said, of the state constitution.

That all of this money has been squeezed out of us as taxpayers and the testing craze is a means for the oligarchs to funnel that money up to themselves rather than down into the classroom, where it rightfully should be going?

At least three of the charter schools will be using the taxpayer money to pay down debt on buildings that these private charter school companies own.

By holding back AIB's ability to return to profitability and rebuild its capital, this exposes taxpayers to the risk of having to inject even more money into the bank down the road.

-- tax carbon (simply a top - down government power grab, which achieves nothing regarding climate but hurts the most vulnerable plus the economy in general); — subsidize corn ethanol (not competitive, drives up the price of an essential food crop); — subsidize «green energy» development or manufacturing projects (too many Solyndras, too many political cronies getting taxpayer money to support basically uncompetitive projects).

Pulling down the stadium would waste a fortune in taxpayers» money at a time of unprecedented austerity.