Sentences with phrase «taxpayer dollars at»

On your argument any measure that reduces GHGs is worthy of throwing taxpayer dollars at in the form of advertising.

More impressive still is the fact that Calgary accomplishes this with no taxpayer dollars at all, which protects animal services and the animals from political wrangling over budget cuts and economic trends.

We can not accept the deep deprivation in our children's schools, and we can not accept Pennsylvania's corrupt charter school law that allows individuals to reap profits off of our hard - earned taxpayer dollars at the expense of our children.

When all is said and done, we aren't talking about tens of millions of public dollars; we are literally looking at hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at risk.

«I'm appalled that one or maybe two people can bring something to this level and waste taxpayer dollars at the school board when there is overwhelming support for her,» stated Dore.

«With thousands of jobs and millions of taxpayer dollars at stake, a potential bailout holds profound ramifications for its workers, the racing industry and the City and State.»

Not exact matches

Noting that the actual rebate should have been at least 10 percentage points higher, Wyden and Pallone said, «Today's letter is more evidence that while Mylan irresponsibly raised the price of EpiPen, they were also bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars.»

«For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders — especially for marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook post.

This time, the president reinforced his assessment that Amazon's business is costing taxpayers «many billions of dollars» through subsidized rates at the United States Post Office.

At the hearing, Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed Carson over the fact that, as the head of the department, he would be in charge of numerous programs that the president could manipulate to profit his real estate empire, asking Carson, «Can you assure me that not a single taxpayer dollar that you give out will financially benefit the president - elect or his family?»

«I would venture to say that a lot of the facilities damaged in Harvey have been rebuilt at least once, if not twice, with taxpayer dollars,» Larson said.

If you are an accrual basis taxpayer that is not eligible to or does not elect to determine the amount realized using the spot rate on the settlement date, you will recognize foreign currency gain or loss to the extent of any difference between the U.S. dollar amount realized on the date of sale or disposition and the U.S. dollar value of the currency received at the spot rate on the settlement date.

However, if the ordinary shares or ADSs are treated as traded on an «established securities market» and you are either a cash basis taxpayer or an accrual basis taxpayer that has made a special election (which must be applied consistently from year to year and can not be changed without the consent of the IRS), you will determine the U.S. dollar value of the amount realized in a non U.S. dollar currency by translating the amount received at the spot rate of exchange on the settlement date of the sale.

Cruz's public defenders said he should continue to be represented at taxpayer expense because he likely does not have the assets to pay a private lawyer for what will rapidly balloon into a multi-million dollar case.

As North American taxpayers take a look at the gleaming new models on display at Detroit's auto show this week, they might well ask themselves just why they poured billions of dollars into saving GM and Chrysler when no one else would.

The U.S. government paid these obligations at 100 cents on the dollar, despite AIG being insolvent at the time and requiring a $ 185 billion taxpayer bailout itself for making casino - like bets with the big banks.

Why couldn't the Fed and Treasury do for Lehman what they did with other Wall Street investment firms and stock brokers: let it reclassify itself as a bank so it could pawn off its junk mortgages at the Fed's discount window for 100 cents on the dollar, sticking taxpayers with the loss?

At a time of huge government surpluses, universal shelter, like universal health care, is on the agenda of few politicians, who argue instead about how many billions of dollars to return to wealthy taxpayers..

Soon after the Civil Eats piece came out, four Nutrition Services employees devoted what must have been considerable time and effort (not to mention the taxpayer dollars that directly pay their salaries) to write a scholarly article for the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk entitled «Sugar In School Breakfasts: A School District» s Perspective.»

Following Assemblyman Vito Lopez's censure last week for sexually harassing two female staffers, the New York Times reported Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had «quietly» settled at least one other complaint against the powerful Brooklyn Democrat, using an undetermined amount of taxpayer dollars to do so.

To ensure that taxpayers and the vulnerable populations served by these agencies receive the maximum value for the funds paid, Governor Cuomo is proposing the following reforms beginning in 2012 - 13: • At least 85 percent of every public dollar will be spent on direct services, not administration.

«Bill Larkin and John Bonacic should be ashamed of themselves for bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by claiming both a regular salary and pension at the same time,» Orange County Democratic Chairman Brett Broge said.

Instead of saving our mass transit system and working on other important issues, we're wasting taxpayer dollars so politicians can come to Albany and stare at each other.

Citizens Union released a report on $ 4.3 billion dollars in the budget that they say are spent at the discretion of Governor Cuomo and lawmakers with almost no details released to taxpayers.

Taxpayers can start keeping those dollars for themselves and their families now that Tax Freedom Day has at long last arrived.

The city Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.»

At a typical cost of $ 400 per square foot, we estimate that the City spent roughly $ 400 million taxpayer dollars to acquire the one million square feet (23 acres) of Willets Point Phase One property, which the Bloomberg administration intended to gift to QDG for $ 1 (one dollar).

Design - build is also projected to save at least $ 100 million in taxpayer dollars.

Still, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos earlier this month at the state Republican convention said he was open to a compromise on publicly financed political campaigns as long as it did not use direct taxpayer dollars, otherwise known as «off - budget funds.»

A reader forwarded this vintage Carl Paladino moment that occurred during last night's Buffalo Common Council meeting at which the topic of debate was a proposed Bass Pro waterfront development that would be heavily subsidized with taxpayer dollars.

The war of words between County Executive Steve Levy and Presiding Officer William Lindsay came to light the same day that Newsday reported that Levy's wife Colleen West owns two court reporting firms that do business with at least seven entities that have received millions in taxpayer dollars from the county.

Also signed off on were three bond resolutions one for a document management software system that will modernize government and save taxpayer dollars ($ 2 million); one for a playground for court - ordered visitation at the Pomona complex in service to child and parent visitation requirements ($ 375,000); and one for the continued repurposing of the Pomona complex with an eye on ensuring a complete one stop shopping hub for health and human services here in Rockland ($ 300,000).

Finally: Pork opponents brace themselves for the annual «pig book»: CNN Congressional Correspondent Brianna Keilar gets her hand son the latest edition of an annual publication that takes a closer look at how Congress is using your taxpayer dollars.

The SALT cap also will increase the effective cost of State and local government services at the margin; each new dollar of State and local government spending will cost New York taxpayers more than under previous federal law.

Keep in mind that Cuomo has been expressing support for using taxpayer dollars to fund campaigns for years now — at least since he was running for governor in 2010 — but has not yet expended significant political capital to actually achieve that goal the way he did with similarly controversial issues like same - sex marriage (a supposed non-starter with the Senate Republicans) and Tier 6 (particularly unpopular with Democrats in both houses).

I do nt think you have the cojones to answer direct questions regarding the mistakes you made at HUD in pushing a sub-prime mortgage scheme that cost taxpayers $ 2.4 trillion dollars and cost most New Yorkers the value of their 401 - Ks.

The County Executive failed to submit a Declaration of Need before the most recent session held July 10, putting the county at risk of wasting taxpayer dollars.

At least 10 ex-lawmakers who've been convicted of criminal charges are still receiving taxpayer - funded pensions worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, a Daily News review of state pension records found.

Candidates for the General Assembly will get their hands on nearly 12 million taxpayer dollars to reach voters in 2016, as planned, after public financing advocates fought back a threat at the state Capitol.

In the Manhattan federal corruption case, Howe has admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from developers and from rigged bids on state contracts linked to the upstate Buffalo Billion economic - revitalization plan — at the same time he was working as a consultant to the taxpayer - funded program.

He allegedly schemed with prominent Manhattan doctor Robert Taub to push patients to the firm in exchange for $ 500,000 in research money and other favors, such as a job for a relative at a non-profit where Silver had directed millions of dollars of taxpayer money.

Fundraising in the form of small - dollar donations is critical for candidates planning to participate in the state's Citizens» Election Program, which offers millions in taxpayer - funded election grants to gubernatorial candidates who raise at least $ 250,000 in qualified contributions.

«Property taxpayers paying for village, town and county services should not have their hard - earned tax dollars diverted to subsidize the M.T.A. through this payroll tax,» said Martins at the press conference.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nikolas Cruz could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, his public defender said Wednesday as the Florida school shooter appeared at a hearing to determine if taxpayers will pick up the tab for his defense.

STATEN ISLAND — One city agency under constant criticism from the Staten Island borough president for its late and expensive work got the OK to build a new office closer to its critic — at a cost of about half a million taxpayer dollars a year.

Liz Benjamin writes that «it's a bit ironic that Huntley, who is reportedly being investigated by the AG's office for her ties to non-profits to which she has directed thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer - funded member items, has introduced a bill intended to tighten up practices at non-profits.»

Tom DiNapoli: «Now that the economy has certainly been in a recovery mode, it's certainly not as strong as we'd like it to be in many parts of the state, I think now is a good time for us to look not only at this program, but at the various economic development dollars that we've spent over the past few years to see what kind of return we've been getting on those taxpayer dollar investments.

At best, this would result in a waste of taxpayer dollars.»

«The stench of corruption emanating from City Hall remainswith a record number of misconduct investigations into Mayor de Blasio (D - Corruption) at a cost of millions of dollars to taxpayers,» Republican real estate exec Paul Massey, who is running for mayor, said in a mocking email.

State Senator and fellow Democrat David Carlucci said, «Like every New Yorker, I am shocked and outraged at Albany's latest scandal in which taxpayer dollars were used to cover up sexual misconduct behind closed doors.