Sentences with phrase «same taxpayer dollar»

Not exact matches

Whether income exceeds the threshold by $ 1 or by $ 999, the credit falls by the same $ 50, so earning a few more dollars could make a taxpayer worse off.

In March, he was criticized for allowing AIG to pay out $ 165 million in bonuses to the same employees who caused the firm's $ 170 billion bailout with taxpayer dollars.

«Bill Larkin and John Bonacic should be ashamed of themselves for bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by claiming both a regular salary and pension at the same time,» Orange County Democratic Chairman Brett Broge said.

«The advocates who were so verbal and litigious during my tenure as a spokeswoman for city government are now so completely in bed with these failing leaders, they don't dare do the same negative press or file lawsuits which cost city taxpayers millions of dollars,» she wrote.

«I believe that New York City, although larger, although having a unique set of circumstances, if we're one state, then we're one state, and we should be under the same guidelines to save our taxpayers dollars,» said Senator Kathleen A. Marchione, a Republican from Saratoga County.

The war of words between County Executive Steve Levy and Presiding Officer William Lindsay came to light the same day that Newsday reported that Levy's wife Colleen West owns two court reporting firms that do business with at least seven entities that have received millions in taxpayer dollars from the county.

Keep in mind that Cuomo has been expressing support for using taxpayer dollars to fund campaigns for years now — at least since he was running for governor in 2010 — but has not yet expended significant political capital to actually achieve that goal the way he did with similarly controversial issues like same - sex marriage (a supposed non-starter with the Senate Republicans) and Tier 6 (particularly unpopular with Democrats in both houses).

Public authorities are not subject to the same oversight as state agencies, which allows for «backdoor spending,» or the spending of millions of taxpayer dollars without traditional checks and balances.

In the Manhattan federal corruption case, Howe has admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from developers and from rigged bids on state contracts linked to the upstate Buffalo Billion economic - revitalization plan — at the same time he was working as a consultant to the taxpayer - funded program.

The appointees «will focus exclusively on rooting out abuse and fraud by public officials so that New Yorkers can have confidence that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely and everyone is playing by the same set of rules,» he said.

«I didn't want to use taxpayer dollars for this and so there was a precedent for other elected officials before me who used resources the same way that I did,» he said.

Critics of the idea of a new convention often point to the expected cost to taxpayers — Benjamin said the cost of the»67 convention, if adjusted for inflation, would be $ 47 million in 2015 dollars — as well as the possibility that the cast of elected delegates would be dominated by the same politicians and special interests that dominate the Capitol during the course of regular business.

«It is just more of the same from someone who is attempting to distract from the fact that he is accused of racism and has already spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on failed lawsuits.»

Each of my decisions is preceded by the same question: «Is this the best way to spend taxpayer dollars?»

«It is the responsibility of elected officials to use taxpayer dollars in a manner that leads to the best return on investment for those same taxpayers.»

«At the same time, I believe in being frugal with taxpayer dollars.»

Their reports are an effort to hold charter school operators (private companies that receive taxpayer dollars to manage a school) accountable to the same financial and transparency standards as public schools.

Vos said the ability to convert public schools to independent charter schools makes the bill «tougher on the choice schools and charter schools than it is on public schools,» but said the measure's goal is to ensure all schools receiving taxpayer dollars are treated the same way.

Roughly the same dollar amount was reduced in the public schools» budget to anticipate the number of students that would be leaving the public school system to attend private schools with taxpayer - funded vouchers.

At the same time, however, the new «Opportunity Scholarship Program,» as it is formally known, includes virtually no standards of accountability for how the state's taxpayer dollars are being spent.

At the same time we are defunding public education, how long will it take before taxpayers are paying a billion or more dollars a year for a statewide voucher system that supports unaccountable private and religious schools?

And of course, at the same time, the taxpayers are shelling out fewer education dollars.

But the fact is that they don't have unionized faculty and staff so they can pay less... and yet these same teachers are put into the state's teacher retirement system which will cost Connecticut taxpayers tens of millions of extra dollars in the years to come.

At the same time that Governor Dannel Malloy is instituting the deepest cuts in Connecticut history to Connecticut's public schools he is diverting more than $ 110 million dollars a year in taxpayer funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

The use of the dollars are not transparent or accountable to taxpayers the same way public schools are held accountable for student achievement, fiscal responsibility, and child safety.

When coupled with the fact that there is no transparency or accountability in terms of how charters spend taxpayer dollars are the very reasons why we need to put the brakes on charter expansion and require them to serve the same student populations and be just as accountable as traditional public schools.

The sheriff said he wanted to test - drive it for the Sheriff's Office and save taxpayers travel expenses at the same time.Orange County auditors were critical of the no - paperwork loan arrangement with Ford, which sells several million dollars» worth of vehicles to the Sheriff's Office each year.

Say you're a B.C. taxpayer now earning $ 80,000 a year and go on to enjoy exceptional financial success, eventually retiring on the same $ 80,000 (in today's dollars).

At the same time it is proposing spending an additional five billion dollars of taxpayer's money, on top of all the existing subsidies, to support the dying coal industry.