Sentences with phrase «supported by tax dollars»

They are generally supported by tax dollars and dog licenses and their programs are limited by government budget allotments.

There will always be people who will pay for convenience just as there will always be those who want to spend nothing at a public library supported by their tax dollars.

So a man with several baby mama's (or the baby daddies if a woman) who didn't marry them, and likely is being supported by tax dollars (and many bragged about this), but someone like me who supports myself and doesn't have kids isn't?

But to use public land supported by tax dollars is ont alright.

Not exact matches

As an aside, those who believe that the province should simply «take back Translink» as a crown corporation (or similar) should understand that in practical accounting terms this would also involve taking on Translink's multibillion dollar debt (supported as it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit rating.

The concern is tax dollars being spent to support a recruitment drive by one specific religious group on a military installation.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

JK If you're talking about public schools, schools supported by everyone's tax dollars, please explain to me why my tax dollar would go to promote the belief in a god that I don't believe is real?

Tedisco also became the first Capital Region lawmaker to sign the «Clean Conscience Pledge» (photo attached) sponsored by Common Cause NY to support real ethics reform that includes closing the LLC Loophole for campaign finance reform, full disclosure in how legislative leaders spend tax dollars, and limiting outside income for legislators to reduce conflicts of interest.

Cuomo's idea to shift some state and local tax payments owed by individuals to a payroll tax paid by employers so many New Yorkers don't lose thousands of dollars under a new federal tax law is supported in concept by many tax policy experts.

Instead, the release cites McDonald's support last December of a «3 billion dollar tax increase even though his campaign pledge was not to support taxes,» and his backing of a recent attempt to «weaken the tax cap» by allowing school districts to bond out pension costs.

An independent expenditure committee that supports tax credits and has been funded by individuals such as financier Roger Hertog and Walmart heiress Alice Walton had spent nearly half a million dollars backing Cabrera as of Aug. 29.

Anyone who is even thinking about supporting the New York City Democrats would be well served to remember what they did the last time time they controlled our entire state government ---- enacting 124 different tax and fee increases totaling $ 14 billion, overshooting the budget by billions of dollars and pitting one region of the state against another.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's idea to shift some state and local tax payments owed by individuals to a payroll tax paid by employers so many New Yorkers don't lose thousands of dollars under a new federal tax law is supported in concept by many tax policy experts.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

In a new survey, which was commissioned by American Federation for Children and conducted by Beck Research, 63 percent support «giving parents the right to use tax dollars designated -LSB-...]

In addition, the challengers say using tax dollars to pay tuition at religious schools is barred by the Constitution's prohibition against compelling a person to «support any place of worship... against his consent,» and its ban on using state funds «for the benefit of any religious or theological institution.»

There has been wide support among education and business advocates for extending and even increasing the sales tax — viewed by many as a crucial step toward restoring hundreds of millions of dollars of education - funding cuts following the 2008 recession.

While the bill is supported by some 20 unions, who say that it would help the children of their members, the New York State teachers» union staunchly opposes it, calling it a backdoor voucher program that directs tax dollars to private schools.

In a new survey, which was commissioned by American Federation for Children and conducted by Beck Research, 63 percent support «giving parents the right to use tax dollars designated for their child's education to send their child to the public of private school which best serves their needs.»

The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

This is all part of the massive, multi-million tax - payer dollar teacher evaluation processes started by our Commissioner of Education, our governor, and our state legislators and fully supported by statisticians employed by the state and assessment - making companies.

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

Either we support public schools governed by our elected neighbors or we let state governments dole out tax dollars to parents to shop for schools.»

The idea is for Mayor Frank Jackson to gain greater support for a levy by having charter parents also supporting it in return for a share of the tax dollars raised.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

Admittedly, public libraries are usually tax - dollar supported, but academic libraries are funded by grants, endowments, and the users» own direct tuition dollars.

It should be noted however that samples sent to veterinary universities and research laboratories are obtained at no cost to researchers who are in fact supported by grants, donations, and tax dollars based on budgets which include procurement of samples.

Before spending millions of dollars on a major - league baseball stadium, Orange County commissioners want to know whether the fans will support a team and whether businesses are willing to pay some of the costs.Today, commissioners will consider spending $ 40,000 to research those questions and to find out how much of the county's resort tax money would be needed to build a stadium if Orlando wins a major - league franchise.The 17 - week study would be conducted by Public Financial Management Inc., a Philadelphia financial consulting firm.

The Pet Overpopulation Fund receives no taxpayer dollars and is supported by the purchase of spay / neuter license plates, a check off box on the Oklahoma income tax form and special events such as Pawsitive Steps.

The cost of travel and the loss of productivity is troubling, since most climate scientists either work for the government or are supported by government grants, and it is our tax dollars being wasted.

Meanwhile, the dollar is supported by Fed December hike expectations and the prospect of tax cuts from the Trump administration.

This is a result of the dollar rally, supported by brighter GDP growth expectations in the US, President Trump's tax reform and a declining demand for safe havens amid investors.

University support for patent trolls is especially disappointing because many of the innovations that come from academia are funded by public tax dollars.

How else can ORE hook naive folks into this business, to thus enable a constant flow of their tax / dues dollars into your coffers in support of your comfy salaried positions of righteous authority than by painting pictures of «Superstar» wealth in the naive cannon - fodders» wide - eyed minds?