Sentences with phrase «public subsidy for»

That could be seen as a public subsidy for a company that sells electric cars to rich people that get a tax credit for their toy.

What you are saying is the public library will give up it's mission of public subsidy for providing information to people who couldn't afford it on their own.

The most common form of public subsidy for «school choice» has been the rapid rise of the charter school industry.

Why make the taxpayers give a public subsidy for campaigns when truckloads of outside money can be given to the party committees?

3 The Lib Dems called for «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees», a cut in the number of government ministers, a four - year, fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dem negotiators called for a «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees» (a watered - down version of their manifesto pledge to phase out tuition fees over six years), a cut in the number of government ministers, a four year fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

It was a gigantic and permanent public subsidy for commercial broadcasters, since the frequencies were (and according to the Supreme Court, still are) acknowledged to be common public property.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

The editorial proclaims that Baltimore land is great for new development because «all of the potentially messy fights about public subsidies for infrastructure have already been resolved.»

In fact, it appears that the costs of the public subsidies for the Delaware North project would far outweigh the benefits to the community.

These public subsidies for poor quality care must not be tolerated.

More public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor's «former» Charter School Management Company

It concluded: «Despite over a billion dollars in public subsidies for private schools since the programs» inceptions, there is no central reckoning of administrative or programmatic expenditures by either SOs or the private schools that voucher students attend.»

2) National / Indiana: In what may be the first crack in the dike supporting excessive public subsidies for privatized roads, Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner Karl Browning says the state should stop committing to «availability payments» that support «public private partnerships.»

on More public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor's «former» Charter School Management Company

They have long had private profits with many public subsidies for years.

To support Destiny, join the call and demand that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) end public subsidies for trash - burning incinerators.

October 11: IMF and World Bank — Actions calling for a stop to public subsidies for dirty energy companies

Many Western European countries are cutting back on such «renewables» because of popular opposition to the increased costs and financial problems caused by large public subsidies for «renewables.»

Along the same lines, the governments of emerging economies won't also be able to sustain high public subsidies for clean technologies, as some Western European nations have.

The solution, if there is one, is either to (i) provide greater public subsidies for legal aid / community clinics to serve a broader range of Ontarians or (ii) change the regulatory environment to allow for the cheaper provision of «routine» legal services by paralegals (this latter approach, I suspect, would go over like a lead balloon amongst my fellow lawyers).

So much of our health policy (including massive public subsidies for the private health insurance industry) has served to reinforce rather than undermine the inverse care law (which was coined in 1971 and holds that «The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.

In an age of dwindling public subsidies for affordable housing, NOAH is gaining currency as affordability pressures escalate across the United States and commuting times and costs rise for a growing percentage of Americans who can not afford to live near where they work.

Not exact matches

Second, the Israeli public bears the cost of sourcing, transporting, and cleaning water; there are no government subsidies for water.

«To reduce the threshold of innovative entrepreneurship, the government provides appropriate financial subsidies for rent, broadband access and public software for new businesses,» said John Rhee, general manager of the Los Angeles office for UBTECH, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen City that makes humanoid robots for the home.

Finally, if your venture helps local economy and employment you should also consider public business innovation centers for easier access to governmental subsidies such as rent and tax breaks.

Instead, Singapore is focusing on public transit — S$ 20 billion ($ 14.7 billion) for new railway infrastructure and $ 2.9 billion on upgrading existing train lines, as well as another $ 2.9 billion on bus contract subsidies over the next five years, according to LTA.

Ending public subsidies would roughly cut overall party funding by 42 per cent for the Liberals, 56 per cent for the NDP, the Greens by 61 per cent and a whopping 77 per cent for the Bloc.

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

Amazon has already sopped up various public subsidies around the country, totaling $ 613 million for 40 of the 77 warehouses, like the one on Broening Highway in Baltimore, it built between 2005 - 2014.

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Mr. Kenney, chanting the mantra of «choice,» appears to be committed to increasing that public subsidy while cutting education funding for most Alberta schoolchildren.

This year, the oversight board proposed eliminating subsidies for public housing and nutritional assistance in schools in order to pay back Wall Street creditors.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

If they want cheap places where they can express their religion, let them seek it in the «free market» and quit trying to force the government to pay for their private activities through subsidies, tax exemptions, resources like schools, public property of all sorts, or anything funded by government monies.

This is a fiscal worship by which Islam requires the well - to - do to care for the needs of the poor and to pay a subsidy to maintain public benefits like hospitals, educational institutions, and a defense force.

In public, Rubio argued for welfare reforms like wage subsidies to «pursue reforms that encourage and reward work.»

It involved the problem of free public transportation for students attending parochial schools, and it also involved the possibility of parochial students receiving various forms of Federal subsidy for such things as school lunches and textbooks.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

The sports authority issued the tax - backed bonds that paid for the $ 432 million public share of the stadium's revamp and provides $ 5.1 million a year in subsidies to the Park District for Soldier Field operations and ongoing facilities upgrades.

«We're pleased that they continue to say that fruits and vegetables in general are important,» said Robert Guenther, vice president of public policy for the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, who would like federal help with marketing produce rather than subsidies for growing it.

Heastie pointed to the Republican support for a subsidy aimed at bolstering upstate nuclear power plants, which is expected to add roughly $ 2 to the average utility bill as a sign some GOP lawmakers are open to tacking on more fees or taxes to help pay for a broader public benefit, such as preserving jobs.

In 2016, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo directed the New York Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer - financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against natural gas.

The savings come from reduced costs for public assistance to low - wage workers — in effect a taxpayer subsidy to large low - wage employers — and increased tax payments by workers benefiting from the wage hike.

The taxpayer subsidy for Aetna spotlights how, while state and municipal budget constraints have forced cuts to social services and layoffs of public workers, lucrative corporate incentives continue to flow out of public coffers to politically connected companies.

Today three guests join Susan Arbetter to analyze the subsidy issue: Jim Heaney, Founder, Editor and Executive Director of Investigative Post, Ron Deutsch, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, and EJ McMahon, Founder and Research Director of the Empire Center for Public Policy.

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

Yes, libertarians would be against tax subsidies (that pay for public schools), but that isn't the question at hand.

And George Osborne expects me to deliver our agreement on nuclear power, which is that there is an important place for new nuclear stations in our energy mix as long as there is no public subsidy.