Sentences with phrase «paid by politicians»

Labour - side boutiques see the attention being paid by politicians to their clients as a blessing and a curse.

Accordingly, most American businesses aren't that concerned with the corporate tax rate of 36 percent and the lip service paid by politicians to reduce it.

But equally mind - boggling now are the implications of the price we are being asked to pay by our politicians to meet that threat.»

Not exact matches

The group of politicians who were allegedly paid by Manafort were known as the Hapsburg Group, a reference to the famous Austrian imperial dynasty.

JBS, which paid $ 1.5 billion from Moy Park two years ago, is near completing an asset sale plan unleashed by the Batistas» admission to bribing 1,893 politicians in Brazil.

Lately, the sheer volume of buybacks has prompted complaints among academics, politicians and investors that massive stock repurchases are stifling innovation and hurting U.S. competitiveness — and contributing to widening income inequality by rewarding executives with ever higher pay, often divorced from a company's underlying performance.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

You're better off actually doing something to oust those religion hucksters and GOP politicians (bought and paid for by big corporate, bank, and insurance interests) from the policy making aspect of our society.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

It doesn't feature on the «scorecard» of spending commitments because the amount is relatively low, but it promises to bump local politicians» income by exempting them from having to pay income tax and national insurance contributions (NICs) on their costs getting to the local authority.

This fundraising email specifically affects tourism by paying for ads in airports, where they not only reach tourists (and the tourism industry) directly but also have a ripple effect: «we've found that ads in airports are unusually affordable — and that by warning tourists about a state's anti-woman policies, we can generate tons of local media coverage and put tremendous pressure on politicians to back off.»

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

We don't need a tax - and - spend politician bought and paid for by unions.

The issue of an MP claiming expenses for a mortgage that has already been paid off really does matter to people, and politicians can not defend extra-marital affairs by pretending that the public isn't interested.

«Convicted politicians should not grow old comfortably, cushioned by a pension paid for by the very people they betrayed in office,» Bharara said.

Lord Moonie was fast - tracked by government appointments watchdog the advisory committee on business appointments to work with Sovereign Strategy, a Labour donating lobbying company which ignores a voluntary code of conduct not to pay or employ politicians.

Posted 22 July 2012 Tory donor pays back # 2m to taxman (Mail on Sunday) These and other related scandals tarnish politics, and all politicians, by association.

: «Voters in senate district 40 are sick of corrupt, pay - to - play politicians like Jose Felix Diaz who are owned by the special interests that buy them.

«Action by the Liberal Democrats within the UK Coalition killed off any suggestion of regional pay within the UK, but now Welsh public sector workers face a new threat to their pay and conditions from Labour politicians in our town halls.

Plaid Cymru, Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians demanded this funding be made available solely from central government in addition to the block grant already paid to the Welsh Assembly by the UK Treasury, and the chief reporter for Wales on Sunday newspaper Martin Shipton stood as a single - issue candidate demanding «Match Funding now».

-- Johanna Cervone, spokeswoman for the Florida Democratic Party: «Voters in senate district 40 are sick of corrupt, pay - to - play politicians like Jose Felix Diaz who are owned by the special interests that buy them.

Mr. Silver also stood out in financial disclosure reports that showed him to be one of the largest earners of outside income among New York State politicians, reporting that he had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by a law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg.

Pretty easy to spot TEAPublican paid trolls — they go by names like Billy, Jane, Moe, etc and (1) never respond to my critical remarks about Democratic politicians, and (2) only respond during their 9AM to 3PM shift.

They say they will step up efforts to close campaign donation loopholes that benefit politicians and companies, and will press for more independent government ethics monitors and tighter restrictions on Albany's long pay - to - play culture by individuals, groups and corporations with business before the governor or Legislature.

These trials have churned up voluminous details about schemes in which politicians or their relatives were paid by special interests with extensive business before New York government.

Vince to Osborne: #minimumwage rate has «got to be set by Low Pay Commission & politicians of all parties have got to respect that» @itvnews

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

The money made by politicians on fees for consulting companies doing business with the state and the pay - to - play system of private campaign financing have to be ended with a full time legislature and full public campaign financing.

«Convicted politicians should lose pensions paid for by taxpayers they betrayed,» Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara tweeted about the ruling.

Salaries for politicians are due to increase by 1.4 % in April, taking their pay to # 76,011 at a time of public sector austerity

The common - sense principle is a simple one: Convicted politicians should not grow old comfortably cushioned by a pension paid for by the very people they betrayed in office.»

4FRI contractor pays a visit to D.C. politicians The announcement of the final EIS comes as the CEO and vice president of the private company that was awarded the contract, Good Earth Power AZ LLC, travels to visit with congressional leaders and the Forest Service in Washington, D.C., this week, according to a newsletter sent out by the company yesterday.

But respondents were opposed to vouchers, or using tax dollars to pay for private school tuition, a policy increasingly promoted by Republican politicians.

Social Security now forces Americans to pay 12.4 percent of their income into a vast Ponzi - scheme totally controlled by 535 sitting politicians.

I am saddened yet again that a politician is bought off by lobbyists and that it's the mighty dollar that matters, us citizens be damned because it's starting to be that the lobbyists run the country and the citizens just pay for it!

While there are many politicians willing to pay lip services to curbing CO2 emissions, I have yet to see any meaningful action by Congress.

It is possible for people to see how life as we know it and the integrity of Earth could be put at risk in these early years of Century XXI by economic powerbrokers and their bought - and - paid - for politicians, whose idolatry of economic globalization rules the world now.

but of course you'll listen to «experts» such as washed - up weathermen, hack UK politicians, and «scientists» bought and paid for by Big Oil.

Should politicians and others in public office, also paid by the public purse, condone such examples of obvious misconduct (by staff and bureaucrats in the University) indicates they are party to an even larger problem the nation faces — the deliberate incremental loss of freedom and liberty.

These industries, their paid up politicians and the people that deny the facts accepted by scientists around the world for the «Man made» effects on our climate have but one agenda: Keep the money flowing in no matter what!

Books should be written by scholars, not high paid politicians, layers, and lobbyists!

As detailed by a 2014 report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), manufacturing jobs in the US are now in the bottom half of all jobs in terms of pay, despite significant public subsidies and bailouts and widespread assumptions among politicians and the public that manufacturing is the backbone of the middle class.

That means we should stop paying attention to anything ever said on this topic by Al Gore, the Prince of Wales, politicians of every hue (including the UN's Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon), and a long list of celebrities ranging from filmmaker James Cameron to musician Sheryl Crow.

We could be financing our politicians instead of thinking we are getting away with something clever by letting vested interests pay for them.

An «advertisement» for the IPCC CAGW message, «paid» for by the politicians of this world with funding from the taxpayers.

Of course he has an agenda, all politicians do and I should have gotten to go to Africa too since my tax dollars paid for it, the ice caps on Kilimanjaro are back by the way.

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

The «Green Foundations» collectively have staffs of thousands, their senior officials are paid EXTREMELY well (by the standards of the average worker), they travel all over the world attending conferences, staying at the finest hotels, eating in the finest restaurants, and drinking the finest wines, their collective budget is multiple billions, they contribute millions to progressive politicians, they lobby furiously, yet they make nothing and sell nothing.

«Where say on pay has been implemented, it's been implemented as a legislative response by politicians to a public outcry.