Sentences with phrase «tax dollar support»

MacManus, in a written response to the senators, defended USAID's work without responding to their concerns about U.S. tax dollars supporting Soros's causes and their call for a State Department review into those funding decisions.

I AM sick and tired of MY tax dollars supporting an overcrowded prison system.

Turtleguy, I guess you had better get your minion out to purge any and all displays of religious items in every tax dollar supported museum across the nation.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

Once they get laid off due to out - sourcing, why should our tax dollars support them with freebie welfare and health care?

I also oppose the idea of my tax dollars supporting candidates I do not personally support or agree with.»

Not only do Americans value education after high school, many of them — of both political stripes — are willing to have more of their tax dollars support it.

And you don't want your tax dollars supporting it.

Tax dollars supporting school choice is hardly subversive or new.

Without this access, our students ignore thousands of dollars of content their parents» tax dollars support.

Without this access, our students ignore thousands of dollars of content their parents» tax dollars support.

Not exact matches

Yes, this means we (just like you) pay our taxes dollars to support public education to the tune of $ 13092 per child on average and private education to the tune of $ 7567 per student on average.

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.

Further, I've got to pay tens of thousands of dollars in extra taxes to support this great country of ours!

Bill, it's not so much that anyone would be «forced» to go to the concert, it's tax dollars being spent in support of one religion's recruitment drive.

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

No government support went to the construction of the National Cathedral, no tax dollars at all... all private donations.

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

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.

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.

As financial supporters of UNICEF (through our tax dollars), we are asking that UNICEF lends its support and considerable influence to the Guatemala 5000 initiative.

Then maybe people would take it more seriously and we wouldnt have these religious nuts having 5, 10 or even 20 children like the Duggers that the rest of society has to support through our tax dollars.

At least, I can choose which ministries I want to support with my money... I don't get to choose which wasteful programs my tax dollars are wasted on... It's just a hunch, but I'm willing to bet that you are a tax taker and not a tax payer... and I mean income tax not sales tax, car tax, and other nominal taxes.

I would argue that there is no moral principle that say I should have to be taxed more (of my hard earned and well saved / spent dollars) to support idiots who think they can spend spend spend and let good ole» uncle sam and the other hard working tax payers bail them out!

The REAL freeloaders are the Republican Conservatives that suck away government tax dollars to support their pseudo-Christian values.

While it may well be tax dollars which support institutional and community care and all the other manifold responses to human need on the part of our society, the inherent motivation derives from Christian understanding, and the policy and guidelines reflect a basic Christian concern, Regrettably, there is no direct ratio any longer — the gears do not engage smoothly!

One method of emphasizing our disgust over selective abortion is to ensure all countries we support with our tax dollars have signed the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development who have agreed to «eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl child.

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?

Few people know or care how much of their taxes go to something a huge a roads and highways... so why is it so bad to use some tax dollars in support of Matthew 25?

I hate that my tax dollars have supported this for years.

It's not fair that my tax dollars are used to support an organization that won't hire me on the basis of my religion.

If you call persecution hearing or seeing one of the few atheists in America make a claim that your God doesn't exist, what would you call it if they tried to add «God doesn't exist» to our coins, tried to get your kid's to stand still each morning at the start of class for a moment of silence in honor of Darwin or Dawkins, tried to get more tax dollars to support their work of spreading the good news that there is no God and demanded that our President must be Atheist to get elected.

Because each of Illinois «958 local school districts has the ability to set its own property tax rate, and because each has a different base of local property value on which to collect taxes, there is a wide variance in the tax rates and dollars that support local elementary and high schools.

In turn, families will receive interventions that meet the highest levels of evidence for preventing child maltreatment, and they and the public can be confident that the programs they participate in and support through their tax dollars have the greatest potential to improve child and family well - being.

Dean Bostrom, executive director of the Park District, responded that residents are showing their support for the center because no tax dollars would be used to pay for it and because it would not be located in «their back yard.»

«Those are costs that could be considered a hidden tax on people who pay utility bills across New York to support the state budget with dollars that are flowing through the New York Power Authority,» said Deputy State Comptroller Bob Ward.

Also at noon, the Coalition for Affordable Homes lobbies members of the state Assembly and Senate to support bills A7406 / S648 that would create a tax on real estate speculation, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol, Albany.

Lander was one of the first councilmembers to bring «participatory budgeting» to his district, (now going into its seventh year) giving residents the power to decide which projects to support with their tax dollars.

At both original trials, testimony highlighted how the company viewed its massive donations as a cost of doing business with politicians who supported multimillion dollar tax breaks from which it benefited.

I do not believe that bailing out this casino with people's hard - earned tax dollars is the appropriate way to go about addressing this issue, especially given the fact that there are other gaming facilities with video lottery terminals who continue to struggle as a result of casino decisions and have not received the same level of support now being requested.

He has focused on legislation and policy changes to support affordable housing, protect the environment, promote economic and social justice and a more humane society, prevent gun violence, create a fairer and more open political process, and provide for greater accountability in the ways government provides services and spends our tax dollars.

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.

Keeping with the Labor Day messaging, Mr. Bermudez passed along a SEIU 1199 mailer supporting Ms. Rivera earlier today with an attached statement declaring, «The clear violation of trust in misappropriating our tax dollars that has lead to FBI and Attorney General investigations should give 1199 the message that a pro-labor voting record should not be the only consideration for Democratic voters.»

Democrats who dominate the Assembly support public campaign financing, while Republicans who control the Senate say it's an unwise use of tax dollars.

SCHUMER: I'm supporting David Yassky for Comptroller because he's got the honesty and integrity that we need to root out government waste and watch every tax dollar.

Why should my tax dollars be spent to support them in prison?

«Your dollars, your taxes, may be going to fund someone's campaign who may have the complete opposite ideological views than you do and your dollars are going to support that,» O'Mara said.

Tkaczyk is also criticized for supporting the Dream Act, which provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, with a flier saying she «voted to use your tax dollars to give illegal immigrants free college tuition.»

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.

Poll after poll shows that these taxpayers strongly support the SALT deduction and oppose having their tax dollars finance the large tax cuts for companies and people who don't need them,» said the group's co-director, Bob Chlopak.