Sentences with phrase «taxpayer dollars into»

Conning the public to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars into a human - loathing Cause to bring about the destruction of our societies and civilization SHOULD COST THEM SOMETHING.

Meanwhile, Congress and EPA are pouring tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatives, to help RGGI director Jonathan Schrag persuade states to implement increasingly restrictive fossil fuel, emission and renewable energy mandates, regardless of what Congress does — and pay for his new $ 2.2 - million loft in Manhattan.

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Florida has channeled billions of taxpayer dollars into scholarships for poor children to attend private schools over the past 15 years, using tax credits to build a laboratory for school choice that the Trump administration holds up as a model for the nation.

The study found that Georgia's tuition tax credit program was funneling taxpayer dollars into private schools that were «condemn [ing] homosexuality on religious grounds; [p] unish [ing] gay students by excluding them from admission and scholarships or expelling and disciplining them because they are gay; [u] s [ing] textbooks and curricula that are harshly anti-gay — some even comparing gays to rapists and murderers; and [e] xpel [ling] or disciplin [ing] students in some cases for simply tolerating homosexuality.»

«When Secretary [Betsy] DeVos's own Department's independent research office tells her that siphoning taxpayer dollars into private schools has a negative impact on students, it's time for her to finally abandon her reckless plans to privatize public schools across the country,» Democratic Senator Patty Murray, the ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, said in a statement.

And while Connecticut is neglecting its duty to our kids, it's also siphoning taxpayer dollars into defending the indefensible and postponing the inevitable.

Schools and Communities United, which organized the rally, said that for over 25 years, Milwaukee has been ground zero for school privatization experiments that have failed our children and siphoned over a billion taxpayer dollars into unaccountable operators.

City Hall has poured millions of taxpayer dollars into his Renewal School program and designated them «community schools» — meaning, in part, they'll qualify for washing machines and dryers.

The implication is that PointCorp and the administration are locked in a an unholy alliance to channel millions of taxpayer dollars into unsavory hands.

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.

Though, paradoxically, the other reason is that the city of St Louis apparently are willing to throw taxpayer dollars into a stadium, meaning that Stan can't move the Rams.

Not exact matches

So did taxpayers: the U.S. government pumped billions of dollars into GM's and Chrysler's financing arms as part of broader efforts to rescue both manufacturers.

FORTUNE — U.S. and UK taxpayers looking to spend some extra dollars on behalf of corporations during the holidays (and into next year) will be pleased to know that Hewlett - Packard's bungled acquisition of software firm Autonomy has made that possible.

I speak, of course, of the sponsorship scandal in which millions of dollars was stolen from Canadian taxpayers, and that money was then diverted into Liberal bank accounts.»

Unfortunately, it will also go into the books as a triumph of fear over hope, of choosing incredibly negative, personal attack ads over policy and vision and a revolting example that using taxpayer dollars to advertise your own party cause works.

The annual cost to women, their families, taxpayers and the health care system runs into billions of dollars.

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 last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

MPs from around Australia flew into Barnaby Joyce's electorate during last year's by - election campaign — on the taxpayer dollar.

Kim Devlin, senior adviser for Suozzi, criticized Martins for «wasting millions of taxpayers» dollars with his petty political games and trying to litigate his way into Congress.

Furthermore, in the case of Oneida Correctional Facility, millions of taxpayers dollars have been dumped into that facility in the past four years, even though it is slated for closure, they are currently still installing new cell doors on the SHU (our tax dollars), it also shares a fence, power house, and water source with another facility, and houses over 900 inmates.

As the taxpayer's watchdog, one of Mark's first actions was to strengthen the office's Audit Division and shape it into an Inspector General - style organization that stops and prevents waste, fraud and abuse of county tax dollars.

«To restore the public trust, we need a real investigation into this troubling pattern of abusing taxpayer dollars for political gain.»

Cuomo's latest threat came last week following the revelation that JCOPE has so far limited its investigation into the Assemblyman Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal to Lopez's own actions, and won't consider Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's hush - hush settlement using some $ 100,000 worth of taxpayer dollars with two of Lopez's accusers.

Parks advocates have criticized a plan to use taxpayer dollars to pay to retrofit the building near the 86th Street Transverse in order to convert it into stables.

Another REBNY - backed PAC, Taxpayers for an Affordable New York, has sprinkled some dollars into the race for borough president, an office which has influence over the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, which is crucial to many new development projects.

«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.

«It is unconscionable that an elected official would deliberately tamper with a law enforcement investigation into the theft of taxpayer dollars,» Attorney General Schneiderman said.

«Given the scandal surrounding the Buffalo Billion that reaches into the highest levels of the Governor's Office and the failure of highly touted economic development projects in other areas of the state,» Schimminger said, «the Legislature would be negligent if it failed to at least take a close look at the latest project to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.»

If you were an investor and you were an American taxpayer, would you want to shove these billions of dollars back into NASA's hands and say, «ok, do it to us again»?

«When we look at grant programs... the key is not the amount of the grant to begin with, but what we are getting for the taxpayer dollars,» he said, adding that he has supported research into particular diseases.

«Rather than inject politics into this process, our discussion today should instead concentrate on how to safeguard the often unexpected process of discovery inherent in scientific inquiry, while ensuring that federal dollars spent on research remains completely and fully accountable taxpayers.»

So the NEA's slush fund is in fact built by taxpayer dollars, which flow directly to the NEA instead of into the teacher's own bank account.

Colorado students who get into trouble after they are expelled from school cost state taxpayers millions of dollars a year, according to a new study.

If taxpayers don't want to see more of their hard - earned tax dollars slip into the black hole that is public education, they certainly better.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Voucher schemes — such as those backed by President Trump and Secretary DeVos — are fundamentally positioned to funnel taxpayers» dollars into private schools while draining much - needed resources from public schools and the vulnerable students who attend them.

Yesterday a state auditor's report found that a Kinston charter school's CEO mismanaged hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars over several years, ultimately leaving that school's students without an academic home just a few days into the 2013 - 14 school year.

A Marion County judge ruled in August that Indiana's voucher law doesn't violate the state constitution because taxpayer dollars aren't flowing directly into parochial schools.

«I want to make sure we're giving relief to taxpayers, but we're also making sure dollars are going into the classrooms where they belong, and and not wasted on programs and big stadiums like we're seeing across the state,» he said.

Voucher schools have drained over a billion dollars of taxpayers» money away from public schools and into private schools with little public accountability.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

Moskowitz has turned her charter school chain into a taxpayer - funded, multi-million dollar business.

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.

But those who favor the language of privatization say that «school choice» masks reality - they say vouchers and charters redirect the flow of taxpayer dollars from public schools, which most Americans support, into unaccountable private hands.

They are an underhanded attempt to re-brand extremely unpopular school voucher programs that divert taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into private pockets.

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But the fact is that they don't have unionized faculty and staff so they can pay less... and yet these same teachers are put into the state's teacher retirement system which will cost Connecticut taxpayers tens of millions of extra dollars in the years to come.