Sentences with phrase «spend more taxpayer money»

Both groups are broadly inclined away from conspiracy theories, with the exception being the only positive assent to the conspiracy theory that — «The claim that the climate is changing due to emissions from fossil fuels is a hoax perpetrated by corrupt scientists who wish to spend more taxpayer money on climate research».

Not exact matches

All gave taxpayers more money to spend and thus help boost the economy.

So the question is this, how can you claim you need more money when you can't tell the U.S taxpayer how much you estimate to spend?

He was as startled as anybody else at the way the election went, and it looks to him as if we are in for a lot more government spending and waste of the taxpayer's good money.

But as is the Dems recklessly spend money on useless / worthless expenses and then come back to hit the taxpayer with more taxes.

We are today investing more in building new road and new rail, including Crossrail here in this City, than at the height of the spending boom — because that is a use of taxpayers» money that gives a real economic return.

More taxpayer money also will be spent on congressional security.

* David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, spent more than # 10,000 of taxpayers» money on home renovations and furnishings, including a new # 5,700 portico at his home in Yorkshire.

While Mark has acted as the taxpayers» watchdog and called out wasteful spending and irresponsible actions, he has also lead the charge to make a more efficient county government by pushing for the creation of Erie County's prescription drug discount program and the adoption of electronic payments for vendors saving the County and those that do business with the County time and money.

The latest, a report in USA Today that he spent more than $ 200,000 in taxpayer money chartering flights as a senator, helps Republicans argue that he is more interested using his office to help himself rather than the public.

In her testimony, Katz said the controversy brought about by these reports illustrated the need for the Queens Library to become more open to the public about how it decides to spend its money, the vast majority of which is made up of taxpayer funds allocated to the Library by the City of New York.

Both Jepsen and Westby are planning on using the state's public campaign finance system, which would give each more than $ 812,000 in taxpayer money to spend on this election.

«People struggling to get to work yesterday morning will be appalled to see that under Labour union barons were being given thousands of pounds of taxpayers» money in expenses while spending millions more in secret,» Ms Patel said.

According to Kindlon, more than $ 167,000 in taxpayer money had already been spent since February on outside attorneys hired to defend Soares in the civil lawsuit filed as a result of the DA's high - profile Florida steroids case.

«As a result, we're spending less and returning to taxpayers more of their hard - earned money.»

It may shock many readers to learn that more than # 13 billion of taxpayer's money is spent on sickness and incapacity benefits for people of working age, as pointed out by minister for disabled people Mike Penning this week.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who once spent taxpayer money so he could go horseback riding with Vice President Pence, racked up more than $ 14,000 on government helicopters this summer.

The answer to operating a functional government isn't to ask taxpayers for more money, it is getting to work, making tough choices, improving efficiency and reducing spending.

«Given the fact that the state has spent more than $ 11 million in public money to settle sexual harassment claims, this legislative response is essential to protect hardworking taxpayers.»

Krissy's lawyer's time would have been more in the public interest if she had tried to stop Shelly Silver from spending taxpayers money to pay off a sexual harasssment case against one of the biggest slugs in the legislature, Vito Lopez.

The board is divided on whether Ciminelli should be held more accountable for how it spent $ 1.4 billion in taxpayer money, but all members Monday agreed that the supplemental information requested in previous months by school board members Larry Quinn and Carl Paladino was not provided to the board early enough for a careful review.

«I laugh at all those who turned up their nose at me,» said Shirley L. Huntley, a former state senator from Queens who spent 10 months in federal prison in Danbury, Conn. — the institution on which the women's prison in «Orange Is the New Black» is based — after pleading guilty in 2013 to stealing more than $ 87,000 in taxpayer money through a nonprofit she ran.

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

This would come in three parts: a contract with the unemployed («we will work with you but you must work with us»); a contract with the most vulnerable («this government and this party doesn't regard caring for the needy as a burden»); and a contract with the taxpayer (money will only go to those who deserve it, and there will be «no more spend and waste»).

«Jeff Klein and his fellow Senate Democrats raised taxes on New Yorkers by more than $ 14 billion dollars the last two years, cost the state tens of thousands of jobs, took away billions in property tax relief from homeowners and spent taxpayer money like drunken sailors.»

It included sessions on how to make committees even more effective in how they oversee the spending of taxpayers» money.

David Davis The former shadow Home Secretary spent more than # 10,000 of taxpayers» money on home improvements in four years, including a # 5,700 portico at his home in Yorkshire, it was disclosed.

The President now wants more money to fund more pet projects, when it is clear that his administration has not been responsible with the taxpayer dollars that have already been spent.»

It's time to take a closer look at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a government agency that spends scads of taxpayer money to achieve what private industry might be able to do more profitably and efficiently.

The candidates have offered what boils down to this choice: Either the government spends more to help families pay for college or it spends less to save taxpayers money.

Principal Bob Isherwood would love to see more money spent on technology, but, he says, «When it is left up to local school boards and taxpayers, they rarely want to spend the money.»

While I absolutely agree that too much of our taxpayers» money is spent on stuff that isn't making our schools better, I couldn't disagree more with what Peterson identifies as fat.

A veteran of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, he now leads an investment group that specializes in raising money for businesses looking to tap into more than $ 1 trillion in taxpayer money spent annually on primary education.

Proponents of Initiative 42 argued that the state needs to spend more on education; that schools are not receiving enough money from taxpayers and this is the cause of our public education woes.

Finally, school choice saves taxpayers money by preserving cost - effective, quality, nonpublic schools while encouraging public schools to spend more wisely and efficiently.

Furthermore, Warren expressed skepticism about DeVos» ability to oversee for - profit colleges, noting that «the very policies you have spent decades advocating for in elementary and secondary education — more free taxpayer money for private and for - profit education operators with virtually no strings attached — are the exact policies that have caused so many problems and harmed so many students in higher education.»

In addition, later this month Lim and Superintendent Ramon Cortines plans to ask the Bond Oversight Committee, a panel that advises the district on spending taxpayer bond dollars, for money to buy thousands more testing devices.

To stem the loss of students and the tax funding that follows them, Austin ISD spent $ 850,000 of taxpayer money — not to hire more teachers, improve curriculum or to develop better educational programs, but to pay for a marketing campaign.

The goal, Superintendent Tom Boasberg said, is to be more upfront with taxpayers about how Denver Public Schools spends its money.

Florida: Proponents of more accountability for how charter schools spend taxpayer money have an example of good practice to point to: Marco Island Charter Middle School.

This past legislative session, these charter school and education reform entities spent in excess of $ 500,000 successfully persuading legislators to cut their own district's public school funding, at the same time they were sending even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's charter schools, despite the fact that these private institutions have traditionally refused to educate their fair share of students who need special education services, children who require help learning the English Language or those who have behavioral issues.

The efforts of the task force will improve the services offered by state agencies, and spend taxpayer money more efficiently.

Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, said in theory, the accounts provide parents with more flexibility because the money doesn't just have to be spent on private school tuition like in the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher program.

When all the costs of an RAL are added up, taxpayers can be spending more than 10 % of their refund just to get the money a few days sooner.

«In fact the very policies you have spent decades advocating for in elementary and secondary education — more free taxpayer money for private and for - profit education operators with virtually no strings attached — are the exact policies that have caused so many problems and harmed so many students in higher education.»

Why is it that our taxpayer dollars are spent killing adoptable animals while breeders continue to breed puppies and an entire, money - making industry exists to bring more companion animals onto a planet already overcrowded with companion animals?

Shred this bill, and spend your time and the taxpayers money more wisely, or I believe you will be looking for another line of work come the next election.

I'll take a wild stab, and guess that talk of «declaring war on science» is some form of NewSpeak or Climatese for «changing the way taxpayers» money should be spent (or wasted, if you are of a more cynical frame of mind)».

If the SA government was serious about maximising SA's sustainable power it could spend taxpayer's money much more productively than on tiny «showcase» projects, for example by upgrading power transmission lines.

if you went to a cardiologist and there were no engineers, the cardiologist would tell you of an irregular heartbeat and say sorry there is nothing we can do.really an absurd arguement... keep talking about the money and remember: «The US Government has spent more than $ 79 billion of taxpayers» money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, blah blah blah and you know where this came from so i leave out the note peace, rich