Sentences with phrase «tax dollar war»

Boehner should also address why he and other Republicans enthusiastically supported the unnecessary trillion tax dollar War in Iraq while the Vatican (and many other religious groups) opposed it because it violated Just War Criteria.

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«In addition to ending a key front in the racist war on drugs, regulating and taxing marijuana would generate hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue for our people and create important agricultural opportunities for our state,» Nixon said in the Twitter video.

Why is the market going up with unemployment so high, consumer debt outrageous, an environment where taxes must go higher, energy 5xs the norm, housing still depressed, access to credit stunted, expensive war expenditures, the Greece failure, a weak dollar, and slow economic growth?

I guess you prefer politicians that lie their way into a second war while we're still fighting the first without bothering to figure out how to pay for it, give no - bid million dollar government contracts to their profiteering cronies, then fail to oversee those contracts, leading to BILLIONS of tax dollars wasted.

Most of us were expecting to hear challenging words about our responsibility to end a brutal war, financed with our tax dollars, that was imposing suffering on the Nicaraguan people.

In regards the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and countless others, children (ours and theirs) are dying and tax dollars are going towards that.

My tax dollars go to wars I don't believe in.

The 46 per cent of our tax dollars earmarked for current operations buys the world's greatest military machine: troops, weapons, bombers, submarines, and the research and development to strengthen our war - making capability.

If you casually threaten nuclear war on twitter, or lie about crowd sizes and voter fraud, destabilize relationships with important allies, if you talk shit about Obama playing golf then spend millions of tax payer dollars EVERY WEEKEND to fly to Florida to play golf, if you share classified info with Russian ambassadors then the media should be hard on you.

With the enactment of the National Banking Act of 1863, during the American Civil War and its later versions that taxed states» bonds and currency out of existence, the dollar became the sole currency of the United States and remains so today.

Governor Cuomo has already spent part of his multi million dollar war chest on positive ads, touting his efforts to cap property taxes, promote the new Common Core learning standards, and clean up corruption.

Nixon added that legalizing pot use for non-medical reasons would end «a key front in the racist war on drugs» and generate hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue for the state through legal marijuana sales.

In addition to ending a key front in the racist War on Drugs, regulating and taxing marijuana would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for our people and create important agricultural opportunities for our state.

Legalizing and regulating the drug, as nine other states have, would stop «a key front in the racist war on drugs,» generate «hundreds of millions of dollars» in taxes and boost agriculture in New York, Nixon said.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

As veterans returned from World War II, federal tax dollars followed them to the college of their choice.

The next day we visited not only the Pima Air Museum but also took a bus tour of the Davis - Monthan Air Force Base, where — as the tour guide put it — some $ 35 billion of your tax dollars are stored in the form of row upon row of war birds safely cocooned for a day when they might be needed again.

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.

1971 Termination of gold / dollar convertability 1973 - 74 Oil crisis 1974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act 1979 Volcker appointed chairman of Federal Reserve 1980 - 82 Early 80s Recession 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 1987 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act 1989 - 92 End of the Cold War 1990 Budget Enforcement Act 1990 - 92 Early 90s Recession 1992 Presidential Election 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1994 Midterm Elections 1995 - 96 Government Shutdown 1997 Balanced Budget and Taxpayer Relief Act 2001 Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2003 Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2001 - present War on Terror 2007 - 09 Financial Crisis 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

«For most investments, much can go wrong, including numerous factors beyond an investor's control: the economy, the markets, interest rates, the dollar, war, politics, tax rates, new technology, labor problems, competition, litigation, natural disasters, fraud, dilution, accounting gimmicks, and corporate mismanagement.

I'm paying for wars... My tax dollars are going for art that I think is really stupid and boring and trivial.»

In addition to ending a key front in the racist war on drugs, regulating and taxing marijuana, would generate hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for our people and create important agricultural opportunities for our state.

Inflation (depreciation of the dollar), taxes, theft, and the end of the world as we know it, nuclear war etc., are still risks.