Sentences with phrase «on taxpayer support»

While the District continues to develop alternative non-tax revenue sources, such as grants, donations and sponsorships, it still relies on taxpayer support: property taxes comprise about 52 % of District revenue.

But it's worth noting that whatever Tesla's growth potential, at the moment the company is heavily reliant on taxpayer support.

Not exact matches

Flaherty supports the proposal, arguing in an April letter to his G20 counterparts that embedded contingent capital would «force the costs of excessive risk - taking to be removed from taxpayers and placed on to the right people — shareholders and subordinated debt holders — thus improving market discipline.»

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.

Just nine years after the repeals, Citigroup was on taxpayer life support, receiving the largest banking bailout in U.S. history.

And the European Central Bank's support of the largest banks and bondholders at the cost of domestic taxpayers has imposed monetary deflation on Eurozone countries, reminiscent of America's 19th - century deflation before and after the Civil War.

President Obama seems likely to change the government's policy on the subject soon, and begin for the first time to support embryo - destructive research with taxpayer dollars.

Dreihaus, part of a group of Democrats that supported a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion yet — when this provision failed to pass — still voted in favor of the final health care reform bill, argued that, given his pro-life beliefs, the ad amounted to defamation.

The campaign fights such «license to discriminate» bills on the state and federal level and builds support for the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, a federal bill prohibiting child welfare agencies that receive taxpayer funds from discriminating against LGBTQ youth or prospective foster and adoptive parents.

From supporting taxpayer funding of abortion - inducing drugs under the HHS mandate, to advocating for abortion on - demand for any reason, Senator Gillibrand is part of the all - out assault on Life, conscience, and religious liberty.»

If Making Tax Digital is to proceed as planned, and on time, then the Government must make sufficient resources available to ensure that high quality education and support is available to every taxpayer who needs it.»

«While I support helping middle - class families afford the rising cost of a college education, I'm very concerned that this proposal will put an unfair burden on hardworking taxpayers that have paid for Albany's tax - and - spend culture for far too long.»

«This means it has committed to spending up to # 10bn on supporting Help to Buy without establishing whether it represents the most effective way of using taxpayers» money to achieve its objectives.

Cox said Gillibrand's explanation for her «no» vote — that the deal doesn't provide sufficient relief to the middle class and is fiscally irresponsible — doesn't ring true based on some of her past votes, including her support of preserving taxpayer funds to thw now - defunct ACORN (Schumer opposed that one).

The effects this bill will have on New York taxpayers will cost them more, and I can not support it.

New York State imposes the highest burden in the nation on property taxpayers for support of Medicaid.

«They say they support free speech, yet they attempted to disrupt a hearing and prevent members of the Elections Committee from taking testimony on the City's taxpayer - funded election system.

Thus, government is putting in place the necessary blocks, such as the issuance of a national ID Card, a National Digital Property Addressing System, and the use of a Tax Identification Number to access key services, to broaden the tax base and reduce the tax burden on the estimated 1.2 million taxpayers supporting a population of about 27 million.

Filmmaker Steve Cowan posted full transcripts of his interviews with Cuomo and Maffei on the film's website, which include Maffei's observation he supports public campaign finance «because it means the only people we'll have to worry about in our day are the taxpayers and constituents in our district, and that's what we're supposed to do.»

Since New York State is reluctant to provide local support, hiring additional workers will allow us to both better serve the taxpayers and ease the immense burden on our staff,» said Kearns.

«They want to focus on Washington instead of the fact that she supported the use of taxpayer money to cover up sexual harassment and abuse in the State Assembly, she approved of seating Hiram Monserrate in the State Senate even though he slashed his girlfriend in the face and caused a wound so deep it required 20 stitches to close and she wrote the law that sent $ 373 million in Westchester's state school aid to New York City.»

«I am honored to have the support of Senator Schumer, who has been a steadfast champion for Nassau County taxpayers on the issues that affect us the most,» Curran said.

I won't support any tax increase on the already - overburdened taxpayers of Erie County,» Lorigo told WBFO News.

«We spend between # 500 and # 800 per taxpayer on the cost, the direct cost of family breakdown that we all pay for by supporting people who are in difficulty,» Mr Duncan Smith told BBC News 24.

Since New York State is reluctant to provide local support, hiring additional workers will allow us to both better serve the taxpayers and ease the immense burden on our staff.»

Responding to the report on behalf of the charities, Centrepoint Chief Executive, Seyi Obakin said: «The positive outcomes for the study participants are testament to the targeted support that well - funded homelessness services can provide to tackle homelessness, with long - term benefits to the taxpayer.

It will hope to persuade ministers by pointing out the taxpayer spends # 4 billion a year on in - work support for low earners.

There's also some pushing back on the polling of public financing and the point Republican lawmakers make when saying taxpayers don't support public dollars going toward political activities.

I am proud to support Terry Gipson and look forward to continuing to work with him on protecting Hudson Valley taxpayers,» DiNapoli said.

Please recall — local taxpayers vote on (and support) school budgets put before them for approval despite NY State walking back it's historical level of support for local districts!

O'Brien, a Rochester - area Democrat, meanwhile, is creating a ballot line centered around upstate taxpayers in order to highlight his support for the state's cap on property tax increases.

Maloney also supported giving Congress taxpayer - funded health care for life, while voting against efforts to stop Congress from flying first class on our dime.

The new Chair of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has today urged the Government to provide greater support to help taxpayers on low incomes engage with and understand the tax system.

Still, he supports the Faso - Collins component of the Republican bill, citing the financial strains on county taxpayers.

[29] Reed focused on bringing attention to wasteful government spending and supported budget amendments that saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating government funding for projects, including a sewer system in Tijuana, Mexico.

«Professor Teachout supports higher taxes on energy and she rejects New York's property tax cap, which protects taxpayers from runaway spending increases,» said Dain Pascocello, spokesman for the Faso campaign.

Teachout, on the other hand, does not support the property tax cap, which saved taxpayers $ 2.5 billion in 2015 and she advocates for a new tax on energy, which would cost residents on average of $ 1,700 a year.

But then, he's got bigger troubles: He's awaiting trial on separate corruption charges in Manhattan federal court, where he's charged with illegally using a nonprofit group — one that he had supported with taxpayer contributions as a City Council member — in his political campaigns.

We have been consulting on how to ensure those who come to the UK as family migrants are supported without becoming a burden on the taxpayer...

The Legislature will be voting on the recommendations later this year and while I will not support the proposed increases, I want to ensure that you, the taxpayers, are involved in this important process.

I want to know if they support Trump's ban on Muslims and the building of a useless wall at the cost of billions to U.S. taxpayers.

«I know personally I don't believe taxpayers should be paying for campaigns or individuals» campaigns who they may not support,» Skelos told me on June 19.

The district doesn't plan on cutting checks to taxpayers, instead planning on allocating a portion of the fund balance to support programming.

Senate Republicans, while opposing the DREAM Act, which would allow taxpayer - funded state tuition assistance programs to be used on the colege kids of illegal immigrants, support the education tax credit that would provide a benefit for those who donate to private and public schools.

Speaking to the Financial Times, Mr Osborne said that a Tory administration would support a new levy on banks — so long as it could be agreed by G20 countries — to protect the taxpayer from the costs of a future crisis.»

At the top of the list: those swinging the scythe on other people's jobs, support and services will have to be unimpeachable in their own use of taxpayers» money.

In a Laconia Daily Sun editorial supporting Hassan, former New Hampshire Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Fernald noted that New Hampshire residents consume electricity from out of state, meaning that state taxpayers would still have to pay for the program via carbon fees on utilities bills if it left the program.

Dependent on the kindness of governments Industry leaders are frank to state their life support comes from taxpayers.

This written justification is intended to affirm NSF's determination that a project is worthy of taxpayer support, based on scientific merit and serves the national interest.

g. Clearer commitments are needed to ensure all public money (including aid money raised from taxpayers) is spent on public education and is not supporting or subsidising for - profit provision in any way.