Sentences with phrase «taxpayer dollars dealing»

Reduced expense to taxpayers: Each year, metro Atlanta animal controls spend over 15 million taxpayer dollars dealing with the consequences of animal overpopulation.

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We should naturally be skeptical of any deal that sees taxpayer dollars go to a firm that made over $ 2 billion in profit just last quarter.

John Flanagan and his Albany cronies have sold out Long Island public schools and have cut a deal with high finance charter school operators to exchange millions in taxpayer dollars for campaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman Mike Murphy.

Gov. Deal has overseen three balanced budgets without raising taxes, saved millions of taxpayer dollars by maintaining Georgia's AAA bond rating, and increased our rainy day fund by more than 500 %.

I think that what that amounts to is that they're building a good foundation with the budget in dealing with the so - called» 5 - billion dollar surplus,» more better said $ 5 billion of taxpayer's money.»

«My concern is that when we're dealing with deficits, you'd have potentially $ 200 million in taxpayer dollars going to be spent on campaign financing,» Skelos said.

«We know that it'll only cost $ 2 per New Yorker, and that's a small price compared to the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that are handed out every year in sweetheart deals for CEO campaign contributors.»

This is the ultimate Jack's power table, where a thousand deals were cut when Bruno ruled the Senate as one of «three men in a room» who carved up a budget north of a hundred billion of state taxpayer dollars.

State and local governments across the country have long offered financial incentives to businesses to relocate or expand operations, although experts caution that taxpayers are unlikely to break even on deals where the cost of each job saved or created runs to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In an interview Friday, Lavine repeated her criticism of Walsh for accepting campaign donations from developers «who got some really great deals, at the expense of millions of taxpayer dollars.»

Behind the scenes, the former rivals started crafting a deal that put American taxpayer dollars into Russian rocketry and spacecraft, keeping up operations in orbit.

In our report issued in September, the Grand Canyon Institute noted that three - fourths of charter schools were engaged in questionable related - party self - dealing that did not save taxpayer dollars, involving close to half a billion dollars.

Not only could unregulated school voucher systems fail to serve the students for whom they are intended, North Carolina could be looking forward to dealing with the kind of fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars that Milwaukee, Florida, and countless other locales have faced should these bills pass with little regulatory provisions.

Pearson is making tens of millions from taxpayer dollars from deals made without competitive bidding, even though there is little proof that their services and products are effective.

As taxpayers, you and I spend millions of dollars every year to deal with the animal overpopulation mess, and still it gets worse all the time.

Members of some of the African armies that the American government trains and supports with millions of taxpayer dollars — like the Ugandan military, the Congolese Army and newly independent South Sudan's military — have been implicated in poaching elephants and dealing in ivory.

The global warming pushers are well - funded because they have something to gain — billions of illicit dollars in grant money from the taxpayers, sale of «carbon credits,» book, TV and film deals and more.

«Cities and states are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on bottled water, and that's not to mention what's spent to deal with all the plastic bottles that are thrown out,» said Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International.