Sentences with phrase «off public taxpayer»

Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (or what ALEC calls «educational savings accounts») work like school vouchers because they siphon off public taxpayer money for private and religious schools.

Not exact matches

Village officials hope making the payment will help stave off future downgrades, but the entire hotel boondoggle is already a prime example of a government's misguided priorities in public investment, which comes at the expense of taxpayers.

Only about 5 % of taxpayers choose the $ 3 check off for public campaign funding (which is about $ 23 million per year because there are about 150 million 1040 tax returns filed each year), but public television, radio, the NEA and the NEH might get closer to the 25 - 27 % percent participation that the check off got when it was started (bringing the take to perhaps $ 115 million a year), because their programming is probably more popular than campaign funding for politicians.

Fox will be genuinely missed among those of us who know all the good he has done for Westchester County and the many hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) in dollars he has saved the taxpayers by working his ass off keeping a close eye on public works projects.

Speaking exclusively to everyone, a spokesman for the Taxpayers» Alliance said, «This just confirms that the BBC are a bunch of pinko commies who spend their time setting fire to # 50 notes when they're not siphoning off public money to commission sympathetic programmes about immigrant paedophiles who probably vote Labour.»

Cuomo backs a system of public financing with a matching contribution that is not necessarily paid with taxpayer dollars, but an off - budget revenue source.

«What we're saying is any public employee that is receiving a salary from the taxpayer should not be left off the hook.»

She says if public campaign financing is to be partially funded by a taxpayer check off, for instance, it would need to be part of the budget now.

Krissy's lawyer's time would have been more in the public interest if she had tried to stop Shelly Silver from spending taxpayers money to pay off a sexual harasssment case against one of the biggest slugs in the legislature, Vito Lopez.

All this is code for, «We don't want to come off as selfish, so while we are still going to push for our typical me - first (and only) union agenda, we are going to try to deceive the public into believing that we really care about kids and taxpayers.»

Finally, it hurts the public, as taxpayer money is siphoned off for private gain.

... Democrats oppose for - profits making profit off public resources, but if [New York City charter network founder] Eva Moskowitz wants to pay herself a half - million dollar salary with taxpayer money, that's totally cool.

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

The vital CCEJF v. Rell Connecticut school funding lawsuit is the mechanism state officials could be using to increase state support for our public schools and thereby shift some more of the burden off local property taxpayers.

A good place to start reading about the climate conspiracy to divert public funds into the undeserving pockets of certain people living off the taxpayers is the Wegman Report to Congress.

The taxpayers and local governments also need to spend a huge sum of money to clean this trash off the streets and beaches to protect the health of public, avoid lost tourism revenue from filthy beaches, and prevent flooding from trash blocked in water and sewage drains.

Anyway, as a taxpayer I am entitled to point out when someone is screwing off, instead of doing the job the public pays them to do.

The four - page fact sheet released by her campaign offered only vague promises that her climate policy planks will ensure «that fossil fuel production taking place today is safe and responsible, that taxpayers get a fair deal for development on public lands, and that areas that are too sensitive for energy production are taken off the table.»