Sentences with phrase «siphon public taxpayer»

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Speaking exclusively to everyone, a spokesman for the Taxpayers» Alliance said, «This just confirms that the BBC are a bunch of pinko commies who spend their time setting fire to # 50 notes when they're not siphoning off public money to commission sympathetic programmes about immigrant paedophiles who probably vote Labour.»

Opponents of voucher programs argue that they siphon essential funding from already meager public - school budgets to other schools and at their worst are unconstitutional, as they can use taxpayer - funded vouchers to benefit religious schools.

What Opponents of School Choice Say: School choice «siphons» money from public schools at the expense of kids and taxpayers.

Critics, including many Democrats and teachers union leaders, say that vouchers threaten to destroy public schools by siphoning money to private schools that are not accountable to voters or taxpayers.

Finally, it hurts the public, as taxpayer money is siphoned off for private gain.

«When Secretary [Betsy] DeVos's own Department's independent research office tells her that siphoning taxpayer dollars into private schools has a negative impact on students, it's time for her to finally abandon her reckless plans to privatize public schools across the country,» Democratic Senator Patty Murray, the ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, said in a statement.

She funded efforts in Michigan to siphon funds from students in public schools, allowing for - profit companies to operate schools with taxpayer money and no accountability.

Opponents of school choice frequently claim that vouchers and scholarship tax credits «siphon» money from public schools and increase the overall cost of education to the taxpayers.

Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (or what ALEC calls «educational savings accounts») work like school vouchers because they siphon off public taxpayer money for private and religious schools.