Sentences with phrase «public tax dollars into»

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Other Republicans say they fear that an expected multimillion - dollar media blitz from the state's powerful public - employee unions might panic some upstate senators into backing higher taxes, undermining Skelos» position.

«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

What was bizarre about the HCRA tax was that all this money, billions and billions of dollars flowing into the state and flowing back out again for more than 20 different public health programs by the early 2000s, almost none of it was on the books.

It is clear that these fat cats who want the public to bail them out like AIG and Goldman Sachs; or the Speyer deal with Stuyvesant Town and a whole host of other scams, are organizing because they fear losing their «special treatment» like a West Street Headquarters will a half billion dollar real estate tax exemption; or the tax credits for complex real estate deals that made Related into a financial and real estate behemoth without really doing much to improve anything... It bothers these dukes and barons that the city helps the needy.

By 2006, 21 other states and several local districts had begun similar programs, both to service homebound or other special - needs students and as an effort to lure home schoolers (and the tax dollars they represent) back into the public education system.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

She's someone who has used her inherited wealth and the wealth that she's married into to try to distort and reshape our laws to advance her personal views, which are that we should basically redefine public education to mean our tax dollars should be going to fund private schools, religious schools, that advance her worldview.

If taxpayers don't want to see more of their hard - earned tax dollars slip into the black hole that is public education, they certainly better.

We strongly object to having our tax dollars suctioned out of public schools, where those hard - won rights apply, and spent to lure families into fly - by - night private schools, where all of the federal special education rights and protections disappear, to be replaced by nothing more binding than a warning of «buyer, beware!»

and an overwhelming need for educrap to keep the tax dollars flowing into their greedy hands while experimenting on the poor kids stuck in public schools.

«A recent bipartisan poll commissioned by TSTA showed that Texans overwhelmingly oppose diverting tax dollars to vouchers and instead favor tapping into the Rainy Day Fund to increase spending for under - funded neighborhood public schools.»

Rachel Tabachnick, an anti- «Religious Right» blogger, wrote that voucher programs such as Jindal's «drain tax dollars from public into private schools, including into religious schools with fundamentalist curricula.»

All this money that Danny Boy and Pryor «need» for their dwindling school budgets and the damn thing is that all the big boys want is to leach our tax dollars out of the public schools into their profits and turn our public schools into «What's Left Academies».

In the coming weeks we'll dig even deeper into this absurd plan, but if you want to get a basic primary on how the education reformers are wasting our tax dollars, undermining the teaching professional and destroying our public schools, I urge you to start by reading — and then re-reading Wendy Lecker's great piece.

As I have stated before, it is time for all Indiana public school systems to stand up and share with local taxpayers the real value of where their tax dollars should be going, and that is into INDIANA PUBLIC SCpublic school systems to stand up and share with local taxpayers the real value of where their tax dollars should be going, and that is into INDIANA PUBLIC SCPUBLIC SCHOOLS!

A dollar - for - dollar credit operates less like a tax incentive and more like a direct transfer of taxpayer funds away from the public education fund and into private hands.

These programs already divert $ 125 million business tax dollars out of the general fund and into private and religious schools, leaving less money to fund investments in public schools that educate 90 % of Pennsylvania's children.

And since the tax payer dollars go into creating these briefing documents / summaries getting the greatest public good out of there creation serves the government and the public well.