Sentences with phrase «take taxpayer money»

In addition, what about the governance of charter schools which take taxpayer money but deny taxpayer oversight and refuse transparency?

Ignore those privatizers who take taxpayer money and run, leaving betrayed parents and children in their wake.

De Blasio said again Wednesday that he would not take taxpayer money to pay his legal bills, although he has set aside up to $ 11.6 million in city funds for lawyers representing other city employees questioned by investigators.

You can't take taxpayer money and then use that taxpayer money to discriminate against the tax payer who is paying you.

It's not up to us to take taxpayer money and put it into that kind of competition.

Silver took taxpayer monies and with the power he had as speaker, directed it to a specific doctor who referred patients back to Silver and his firm.

Despite the group taking taxpayer money, the ERG has long refused to list its members — with Fernandes repeatedly declining to do so in what many described as a «car crash» Channel 4 News interview, hours after openDemocracy revealed that her organisation was funded by taxpayer cash.

It was great that he took our taxpayer money and funneled it to a researcher at Columbia in return for the Doctor referring all diagnosed patients to Sheldon's law firm.

Democrats oppose the proposal because they say it would hurt the education sector by taking taxpayer money away from already struggling public schools and giving it to private schools.

Nobody forced Baillie et al to take taxpayers money and to trudge miles over bogs and fields carrying chain saws.

Not exact matches

Taxpayers are taking the bait and losing significant amounts of money, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

But we stuck to it, and we were very pleased we didn't have to take precious taxpayer money.

Maybe what Jamie Dimon is hoping for is that the government will come down on cryptocurrencies and save him — just like they did in 2008 when his company took $ 12billion in US taxpayer bailout money.

Sovereign debtors must agree to IMF «conditionalities» in order to get enough credit to enable bondholders to take their money and run, avoiding haircuts and leaving «taxpayers» to bear the cost of capital flight and corruption.

The Conservative proposals take up a large part of the surplus but puts money in taxpayer's pockets, some more than others.

He says the New Jersey bank would «take money out of Wall Street and put it to work for New Jersey — creating jobs and growing the economy [by] using state deposits to finance local investments... and... support billions of dollars of critical investments in infrastructure, small businesses, and student loans — saving our residents money and returning all profits to the taxpayers.»

The private Wilmette Harbor Association may lose its lease to manage the North Shore marina, and its members are seething that a local Park District commissioner — who took part in private discussions and voted to spend taxpayer money to study the harbor — is making a private play to win the management contract.

The case against the park district, brought in a civil action filed last May by the Cook County state's attorney's office, alleges that park district officials improperly took office in the Southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

The state's attorney's office sued the park district last May, alleging district officials improperly took office in the southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

One of my colleagues, the comedian that he is, got into work early the next day, took a screen grab from the internet and proceeded to print out the image 20 times and plaster our office — a good use of taxpayers» money, ahem.

But he said the gist of the call was that Cuomo had created a commission to investigate public corruption by elected officials, and made specific mention of Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, alleging she has bilked taxpayers out of more money than «some of us take home in a year.»

We've got to stop problems caused by risk - taking here in the City of London spilling onto our high streets and putting taxpayers» money at risk.

And she believes it saves money when you take into account what she says is the indirect costs to taxpayers from the present big money donor system.

The city Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.»

Most of the new money would be paid by taxpayers who can no longer take advantage of former deductions.

One of her first actions upon taking office in 2010 was to use taxpayer money to purchase for her position a luxury SUV with all accessories valued at close to $ 60,000.

This is a victory for common sense, since it halts the prospect of some new body, or group being set at vast amounts of taxpayer's money to take evidence for a long period before reaching the conclusion that some bankers broke the law and others acted against the interests of their customers.

JAMESTOWN - The chairman of the Chautauqua County Democratic Committee is taking Sen. Catherine Young's (R - Olean) office to task for sending out campaign - style mailers using taxpayer money, less than a month before the General Election.

All municipalities that take HUD grants are being funded by taxpayer money appropriated by the Federal government which is now $ 17 trillion in debt.

They also wrote Cuomo that «producer - funded drug take - back programs save government and taxpayers money, fairly incorporate the true cost of managing these products in the purchase price, and provide a director financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies to reduce unnecessary prescriptions.»

«Cuomo likes to take control of a project, dump taxpayer money into it, and oddly enough, all the same people seem to be the beneficiaries of the contracts,» said GOP Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

But Flanagan said the change is complicated and taxpayers may not be pleased at seeing a drop in their income or take - home pay because more money would be taken out to cover the payroll tax.

To take hard - working taxpayer money and pour it into a system that's going to be expensive for taxpayers and at the same time a drop in the bucket for the overall costs, has led me to think that this is not the solution.

Because of an «unfit for purpose» system, their claims take years to resolve, wasting untold amounts of taxpayers» money as other bureaucrats and Johnson's hired gun lawyers fight them to the bitter end despite the mountain of evidence that Iraq is a death zone for gays.

«It is clear Martins cares far more about using money taken directly from the wallets of Nassau County taxpayers to campaign for himself than he does about ethics reform, which he has blocked at every turn in Albany.

For example, we have established a Green Investment Bank - which will take # 3 billion of taxpayers» money and use it to lever in several multiples of that from the private sector to build our green infrastructure.

Amid all this bad news and uncertainty, it's becoming increasing clear that Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a big risk with taxpayer money to build SolarCity a $ 750 million plant.

THE ELIZABETHTOWN - LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL BUDGET HEARING, BUDGET VOTE & BOARD MEMBER ELECTIONNotice is hereby given that a Budget Hearing of the inhabitants of the Elizabethtown - Lewis Central School District, Essex County, New York, qualified to vote at school meetings in the District will be held at the school on Tuesday May 8th, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of hearing the report of the meeting.Notice is also hereby given that the vote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (DST).

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

As a quid pro quo to the Power Authority taking care of George's friends and family club members, George, his oversight committee, looked the other way and abrogated his responsibility to not only the taxpayers of his district but to all Western New Yorkers by letting the Cuomo / Silver progressive establishment cartel, in two successive budget bills in 2011 and 2012, sweep $ 600,000,000 from the bank account of the Power Authority to the General Fund of the State of New York — monies that should have been used for the economic benefit of Western New Yorkers.

«I think campaign finance, $ 200 million, I'd rather take that money, put it into education and certainly many taxpayers throughout the state do not want to see that money going to individuals they do not support,» Skelos said.

However, questions remain: did Roj have the authority to direct COMIDA's lawyers to take action and ultimately, did Roj authorize the expenditure of taxpayer money to perform this cover up?»

«Instead of taking a stand on this common sense issue like a real leader, Larkin is wasting taxpayer money on a poll about it,» Broge said, attaching a copy of a December mailing from Larkin that posed 25 questions.

9/29 HHS Secretary Price is forced to resign over the nearly $ 1 million in taxpayer money he spent taking military planes and private jets, often to visit family and friends.

There is no basis for allowing them to take money from all taxpayers but then only use it in ways that support Catholic beliefs.

Construction is expected to take two years and is being paid for with a combination of taxpayer money, donations and asset - forfeiture funds.

«It's becoming increasing clear that Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a big risk with taxpayer money to build SolarCity a $ 750 million plant.»

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has asked councils to take a «good hard look» at their extensive land and property portfolios in order to save taxpayers money.

When I took office there was $ 4.3 million of taxpayer money conveyed by the Legislature to these agencies, with no oversight and no procurement process.

The priorities enumerated in the document are a clear indication of the type of independence that Johnson has promised since taking office, with a focus on «strengthening the social safety net, fighting for the middle class and handling taxpayers» money responsibly,» as Johnson put it at a news conference at City Hall.