Sentences with phrase «tax dollars work»

Find out how your tax dollars work!

It's a win - win - win as we build our infrastructure, enhance and diversify our workforce, and keep our local tax dollars working in Erie County.»

Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz said, «This local law keeps our county tax dollars working right here in Erie County, investing in county construction projects as well as in our workforce.

Not exact matches

Now is the time to make smart year - end tax decisions so you can keep more of your dollars working toward your financial objectives.

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.

If you travel for work much, just keep all your receipts, get serious about updating your tax spreadsheets, and don't let any dollar go unaccounted for.

Everyone who works hard wants to be self - sufficient, but until companies pay a living wage «your tax dollars are subsidizing McDonald's (mcd), Wal - Mart (wmt), and Macy's (m),» Crawford told me, adding that she hopes to bring about improvements not only for herself but for those she has met along the way.

When your entire paychecks derive from other peoples» work, and the government is always standing in the shadows, ready to bail out your profits with the tax dollars of actual workers, you're not a «risk taker» — you're a parasite!

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.

Still, we might reasonably look askance at a company that works so assiduously to squeeze every last dollar out of the tax system.

We believe it really is A Better Deal, that we should be working together in a bipartisan way to create growth that will reduce the deficit, generate good - paying jobs, and do so, again, in a bipartisan, transparent way instead of having trillions of dollars» impact on our economy with this GOP tax scam bill that was done in the dark of night, and, again, in a way that is not transparent, bipartisan, or good for America's working families.

If you work with a CPA before you sell a large asset, your CPA can come up with strategies to minimize your taxes and potentially save you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Family - Friendly Tax Reform - This plan would save thousands of dollars for working - class and middle - class parents and cut taxes on investment income.

And I am sure it is paid for by my hard work and tax dollars...

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.

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

Of course «our» tax dollars and the welfare and he got college degree pay by us too everything free, but my kids pay student loans to go to college how sad the criminals get help and honest people don't, my kids work hard babysitting, delivering newspapers, washing cars, packing groceries, cutting grass oh that make me so proud of my kids!

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!

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.

We'd get a healthier work force, less people filing for bankruptcy due to medical debt and less tax dollars going to pay hospital bills for people who can't or won't afford it.

Also, if I was working and we were paying for childcare, we could claim that cost and reduce our tax burden (you can pay for childcare with pretax dollars.)

Tranter began working at Friends of the Parks in 1980, around the time that the federal government sued the Chicago Park District for spending an unfair amount of tax dollars in powerful, white neighborhoods instead of minority communities, she said.

Heller wants park officials to work with the city to use Tax Increment Financing dollars to make his vision a reality.

2001 FRAC helps lead anti-poverty and anti-hunger groups in obtaining tens of billions of dollars in refundable tax credits for low - income working families with children in federal tax legislation.

Now Charlie King was «HAND PICKED» By «Cover UP» Cuomo before that he was working for Al Sharpton and the Action Newtork that financial records are a mess, and they owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes.

Each year, Erie County invests over $ 30 million in tax dollars for public works construction projects across the county.

This is a wise investment of tax dollars that will help rebuild our region's infrastructure while at the same time providing living wage construction jobs for people who want to work,» said Buffalo NAACP President Rev. Mark Blue.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.

This is an assessment from our intelligence agencies, no less... your tax dollars at work.

New Yorkers can't afford to spend tax dollars on programs that don't work.

The town's Democratic committee is looking for a successor to Gerard Terry, who resigned last week as party chairman after Newsday reported he had collected $ 1.4 million in federal and state tax debts while receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public work.

«Through hard work and innovation, I have returned over 30 million dollars to county tax payers - a record surplus - to help keep property taxes stable.»

Major trust issues between New Yorkers and the elected representatives controlling their tax dollars continue to hamper our work, and without stricter reforms the integrity of the state's entire policy - making process is at risk.

She said the tax increase is «predicated on the absurd contention that the state's most successful entrepreneurs, investors and business executives will turn over 54 cents of every dollar of their top earnings to the government for the privilege of living and working in New York state.»

The subjects up for negotiation — employee pay, benefits, and work rules — are ultimately political decisions about how to allocate tax dollars and how public services should be carried out.

Given the Working Families Party's ties to ACORN and the furor over tax dollars to the community action colossus, it will be interesting to watch whether Dede Scozzafava pursues their endorsement once again.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans.

Replacing income taxes with am employer payroll tax, leaving Washington, not Albany, on the hook for billions of dollars in lost revenue, might sound good, but the idea floated by the governor is already running headlong into a barrage of practical questions about how precisely such a switcheroo might work.

Recently, Bill and I have been working together to drum up support for a brilliant idea of his to reduce community college chargebacks from other counties that add millions of dollars to our Erie County property taxes.

I'm proud to report that in Old County Hall your Legislature consistently works with both sides of the aisle — to ensure your tax dollars are protected and quality services provided.

We went to work, finding millions of dollars in cuts to non-essential services, and we were able to reduce the tax rate for 2015.»

He says they'd have to pay $ 294 more dollars in additional federal pay roll taxes, nearly $ 3000 in additional state and federal personal income taxes, and would receive $ 1300 less in earned income tax credits for the working poor.

«Lee Zeldin is a Wall Street bonus baby who has supported tax breaks for millionaires in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations, and wants to raid the retirement savings of working families.

«EDF's decision to use an out - of state contractor to perform work being subsidized by New York tax dollars is a disgrace,» said John Hutchings, the director of New York State Laborers Organizing Fund.

«From his staunch defense of the defined benefit pension system to his efforts to safeguard their hard - earned tax dollars, no one does more to protect working people than Comptroller DiNapoli.

«It will be imperative that both sides work together on all issues to ensure that tax dollars are allocated efficiently.

Leibell, R - Carmel — who pleaded guilty in December to obstructing a federal grand jury that was investigating whether he extorted cash payments from lawyers working in Putnam County and failed to report on his income tax returns tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments he received from those lawyers — was to be sentenced in federal court in White Plains this coming Monday.

«The charitable deduction could work on the local level but again, it's not dollar for dollar and it's not a perfect situation, but a local government could set up a charity for education, could set up a charity for health care, you make a contribution to the charity you get a federal tax deduction and you get a state credit for the amount you contributed.»

Your tax dollars at work.

After years of indulging in corporate loopholes and giveaways like more than $ 100 million in tax breaks for the new Goldman Sachs headquarters and paying consulting firms hundreds of millions of dollars to work on failed technology projects like CityTime, the Mayor saved one of his largest corporate handouts for the final moments of his tenure: hundreds of millions of dollars for developers through the midtown east rezoning.