Sentences with phrase «tax dollars spent»

Local politicians who decry the tax dollars spent on the project recently claimed that its vacant space is not being leased to retailers, as promised, but is earmarked for government offices.

Arthur J. Rolnick of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis writes that, «Careful academic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent on early childhood development provide extraordinary returns compared with investments in the public, and even private, sector.

I guess it just depends how you want your tax dollars spent.

It is a lot easier to see the impacts of $ 10 / gal gasoline, or being forced to rely on public transportation, watching my energy bills double and triple or seeing tax dollars spent based on political concerns and not on sound business reasons (> 1/2 billion on Solandyra (sp?)-RRB-

Reducing pet homelessness means less suffering for stray and abandoned animals, as well as fewer tax dollars spent on caring for animals in need.

I would like to see my tax dollars spent in a more productive and humane way.

The more than $ 80 billion in U.S. tax dollars spent annually on the corrections system would be better invested in public schools.102 In order to redirect funding from prisons to schools, state policymakers must find ways to reduce their prison populations.

The study, which we co-authored, analyzed the public schools in Milwaukee that produced the best student outcomes per tax dollars spent.

This is a worthy goal but from then until now the achievement gap has only widened, even after all the testing, school closures and billions of tax dollars spent on educational reform schemes.

Or, it could be more vouchers gone wild — more tax dollars spent, less accountability.

It uses the collective bargaining process to influence the amount and destination of tax dollars spent.

No questions were asked about why the Department of Education didn't rely on mathematicians in the review of proposals for these programs, nor was anyone in the department ever questioned about the NCTM's education philosophy and the millions of tax dollars spent on texts that were the subject of fierce objections from 200 prominent mathematicians and scholars.

Of the public tax dollars spent on agricultural research, organic receives less than one percent of the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breeding.

Those who hold this view pride themselves on not taking any handouts and certainly refuse to offer them, viewing tax dollars spent on programs assisting those less fortunate as an instance of government overstepping its boundaries.

Moderate republicans who may want their tax dollars spent elsewhere are left little recourse.

I also do not want tax dollars spent to directly benefit ME.

I, for one, agree that I do not want my tax dollars spent on a clear violation of seperation of church and state.

How about the tax dollars spent on Imam Rauf's «good will» tour?

Tax dollars spent on foreign aid must achieve real results.

This year the Legislature will refocus its priorities and ensure that every tax dollar spent is done so appropriately,» said Majority Leader Lorigo.

For every tax dollar spent nationally on home visits, as much as $ 5.70 is returned to the community.

Prior research has demonstrated that high - quality home visiting programs are associated with better maternal and infant health, 1 enhanced school readiness for children, 2 reduced rates of abuse and neglect, 3 and higher levels of parent education and income.4 Home visiting is also a good investment; one rigorous research study found that for every tax dollar spent on high - quality home visiting programs, there is a return of more than five dollars due to reduced spending on health and welfare services.5

Not exact matches

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

The hospitals are funded by tax dollars, and clearly they don't want to be seen spending those dollars on things the public is likely to find dubious.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

This is because 50 percent of every dollar a professional service business spends is in employee salaries, not counting contractors or payroll - related costs like taxes and insurance.

Instead of being critical and coveting more equalization dollars, they need to constrain spending on entitlement programs that are no longer sustainable, and keep taxes low.

This seemed like a relatively painless way of doing it, since FSAs would allow them to save 25 or 30 in taxes for every dollar they'd have to spend.»

Instead of spending tax dollars on programs such as welfare, food stamps, Medicare and Social Security for some of the population, give an equal amount to everyone and be done with it.

Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.»

With this much public money on the line, monitoring how US tax dollars are spent in the recovery will be crucial to prevent waste, fraud, and shoddy work.

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

Over time, that adds up to trillions of dollars in increased future government spending — and higher taxes.

«Discretionary dollars for holiday spending are limited for the large pool of lower - and moderate - income consumers due to lack of wage gains this year coupled with the increased payroll tax.»

Under CBO's Alternative Fiscal Scenario — which assumes many of the 2017 tax law's expiring provisions and other temporary tax cuts are made permanent, the recent spending deal is extended so that most discretionary spending grows with inflation, and emergency funding for disasters is kept in line with its historical average — deficits will exceed the two - trillion dollar mark by 2028.

In the four decades that the current system for budgeting and spending tax dollars has been in effect, Congress has managed to pass all required appropriations bills on time only four times.

Additional stabilization from unemployment insurance, although smaller in total magnitude than that from the tax system, is estimated to be eight times as effective per dollar of lost revenue because more of the money is spent rather than saved.

The White House budget director came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump's budget, but the administration's allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year's tax cut rather than the trillion - dollar deficits contained in the new spending plan.

But states such as North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana get more than two dollars back in federal spending for every dollar in taxes.

Instead of hearing about billion dollar gun - registries or carbon taxes, we all get to spend four weeks talking about potholes and roads, garbage pickup, traffic congestion, and other issues that affect people literally where they live.

The legislature passed a deal early on Friday to raise spending by several hundred billion dollars, just two months after a $ 1.5 trln tax cut.

Almost needless to say, the government is spending tax dollars appealing this ruling.

If Sid were to grow his $ 549,000 RRSP at three per cent per year after inflation and were to spend all capital and income starting at 65 in the 25 years to age 90, he could withdraw $ 31,528 per year in 2018 dollars before tax.

He said the dollar faces a further slide if any Fed tightening is offset by a wider US deficit on the back of Donald Trump's big spending plans and tax cuts.

It took four years to put this right, the government spending goodness knows how many tax dollars resisting a routine request for clearly justified leave that had been denied without rhyme or reason.

Since every dollar you spend on taxes is one less you have to spend on your retirement goals, it makes sense to focus on your after - tax income.

This will mean every dollar you need to withdraw will be taxed, so you may have to withdraw $ 1.40 or more for every dollar you need to spend.

This begs the question: Why are tax dollars being spent on expensive emergency shelters when we know they are ineffective at combatting homelessness and addiction?

For example, one study finds that for each dollar spent lobbying for a tax break, firms received returns in excess of $ 220.