Sentences with phrase «tax dollars granted»

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they can bid on dead people, half the money goes to the family, half to pay off the debt, and then let them spend all their tax - free dollars and grant money on paying us back in a wasted effort.

Another is in gov grants to religious organizations,, that's OUR tax dollar, again not separation.

Run off our tax dollar (grant money).

Mike Adams, executive director of the Park District, said the district would be able to get about $ 16 million in financing, but must seek the remaining amount using tax increment financing (TIF) dollars and / or grants.

GlobalFoundries, which has racked up Empire Zone tax benefits estimated at up to $ 586 million (in addition to a $ 665 million cash grant from the state and other perks) built a multibillion - dollar chip fab in Saratoga County that now employs more than 3,000 people.

During my career, I have secured over 20 million dollars in grants, maintained the lowest Town and sewer tax in Rockland County.

According to the economist, the total cost of infrastructure from loans, grants and taxes from 2009 to date, is less than 7 billion dollars.

The legislation approved Wednesday seeks to require more transparency and accountability for programs that amount to billions of dollars a year in tax breaks, business grants and loans.

granted Riley's limited liability company, Syracuse Community Hotel Restoration Company 1, millions of dollars in property tax breaks to redevelop the 93 - year - old building, which contained pipes and wiring installed during the 1920s.

Under Walsh's leadership, the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency granted Riley's limited liability company, Syracuse Community Hotel Restoration Company 1, millions of dollars in property tax breaks to redevelop the 93 - year - old building, which contained pipes and wiring installed during the 1920s.

Speaking at a public lecture titled, «The State of the Ghanaian Economy — A Foundation of Concrete or Straw», chaired by Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Dr. Bawumia revealed that, the total cost of infrastructure from loans, grants and taxes from 2009 to date, is around 7 billion dollars, whereas government has borrowed in excess of 39 billion dollars.

While the entire system of grants, subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives need to be reformed, a line item that needs to be looked into is funding for energy research, which accounts for 9 billion dollars.

Six out of seven members of the Hempstead Town Industrial Development Agency resigned this week after they were criticized for granting millions of dollars in tax breaks to the owners of the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, Long Island.

Only three legislators voted against giving Brega nearly $ 4 million dollars to wash the buses and raise County taxes by 4 % — Democrat Meyers with Republicans Carey and Grant.

ALBANY — Lawmakers for months demanded Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo give them a bigger role in dispensing billions of dollars in economic - development aid and also insisted on more transparency in selecting projects for big tax breaks and grants.

Smith has also repeatedly questioned NSF's ability to choose the best science and has flagged dozens of NSF grants as frivolous uses of tax dollars.

The funding comes from donations made by individuals and businesses who receive a 75 - cents - on - the - dollar tax credit when they give to scholarship - granting organizations statewide.

«Yet Republicans insist on giving tax breaks to the superwealthy while shortchanging programs like Head Start, No Child Left Behind, student loans and grants, and other education initiatives by billions of dollars.»

Rather than reallocating dollars slated for education, supporters proposed to give tax credits to individuals and businesses that donated money to nonprofit organizations providing low - income students with scholarship grants to attend private schools (see Table 1).

And finally, the Colorado Education Association (CEA) charged that district schools shouldn't have to share local tax dollars, since charters didn't share the unique funding they received through grants, donations, and charter - specific federal funds.

The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help families send their children to the schools of their choice.

In speeches, mailings and multi-million dollar TV ads, they've battled over teacher salaries, property taxes and federal education grants...

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

During this reauthorization process, NSBA has worked closely with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to advocate for a modernized education law that affirms the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

Senate lawmakers approved a bill Monday evening that would allow charter schools to receive more tax dollars and private grants than to which they are currently entitled — and some of that money could be for services that charter schools may not be providing to students.

During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

The bill would have allowed charter schools to receive more federal and local tax dollars — as well as private grants — than to which they are currently entitled.

Senate lawmakers approved a bill Monday evening that would allow charter schools to receive more tax dollars and private grants than to which they are currently entitled — and some of that money could be for services that charter schools...

One key difference, however, is that the Barefoot - Hise proposal would order traditional school systems to share myriad funds currently not accessible to charters, including gifts, sales tax dollars and federal grants and reimbursements, at least one pool of which is used to offset the costs of school lunch programs, even though many charters do not participate in such programs.

Extra funding granted to provide a new home for the hole in the water tax dollars are poured into.

Careful examination of how our tax dollars are spent, and guarding against hidden agendas that come with grants and donations, remain crucial, no matter who gives money or what the stated purpose may be.

This bill provides a dollar - for - dollar tax credit for individuals and corporations that donate to «Scholarship Granting Organizations» (SGOs) that provide vouchers for low - income students to attend private schools.

Assurances from House leaders that their bill would grant most Americans so much tax relief that they would not need those benefits ring hollow as analyses show that various provisions in the bills could result in $ 1.6 trillion dollars of tax INCREASES on middle class earners over the next decade.

In a bid toward fairness, proponents of a bill that would funnel more tax and grant dollars to charter schools say that funds spent on each child's public schooling should stay with that child — wherever she attends school.

In Florida's tax - credit program, businesses receive a dollar - for - dollar credit when they donate to nonprofit scholarship - granting organizations.

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

The outreach and education is funded by grants and donations, and local tax dollars take care of the basic operating costs.

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.

Every time a government grant (or loan guarantee) is awarded in any context we should be told two figures: the amount in dollars — and the number of taxpayers whose annual taxes will be required to pay for it.

The company also has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants and tax credits to offset the cost.

This piece of legislation removed the dollar - amount cap for solar thermal systems (and also paved the way for commercial systems installed in 2009 and 2010 to receive a grant instead of the 30 - percent tax credit, outlined below).

The problem is that the IPCC, the Climategate liars, Algore, and the rest — especially those making millions of dollars peddling this rubbish non-science, and those receiving government (i.e. tax) grants to prove manmade global warming — put forward nothing but propaganda, faked or skewed data and the kind of simple slogans that the uninformed public can understand.

by Jeff Stier Heartland Institute A pair of foreign research organizations have gotten numerous grants for work of unclear value As Democrats and the scientific establishment howl over President Trump's proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Congress is investigating whether that agency misspent U.S. tax dollars to fund two European cancer -LSB-...]

So far, though, most objections to the giant solar projects planned for the Southwest have been washed away by a tsunami of money from Wall Street, lured to invest by billions of dollars in federal grants, tax credits and loan guarantees and a fast - track regulatory approval process.

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.

On the other side you have the NFL, a leviathan - sized entity that takes in $ 9.5 billion dollars annually and whose commissioner Roger Goodell makes $ 30 million / year but which somehow is granted non-profit status and is exempt from paying federal taxes.

Home visiting dollars are drawn from a variety of state sources — including general revenues, tobacco settlement funds and taxes — and federal streams, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Maternal Child Health Block Grant and Medicaid.

The new law includes tens of billions of dollars in other assistance through a variety of programs that impact real estate, such as commercial real estate tax credits and grants for low - income rental housing.