Sentences with phrase «taxpayer money like»

No wonder there is no money for legal aid — or for court interpreters — or for whatever when the judges and CMPA go through taxpayer money like it grows on trees.

«Jeff Klein and his fellow Senate Democrats raised taxes on New Yorkers by more than $ 14 billion dollars the last two years, cost the state tens of thousands of jobs, took away billions in property tax relief from homeowners and spent taxpayer money like drunken sailors.»

After a lengthy critique of de Blasio's spending, including the line that de Blasio «has spent the taxpayers money like a Saudi prince,» Malliotakis offered that she's «looking to make sure that that money is spent properly» but acknowledged that she does not have any plan to reduce the City's spending.

Not exact matches

After all, «Taxpayers paid a lot of money for someone to go to an institution like RMC, to train that individual and give them a unique skill set,» he notes.

b) We have a do - nothing, fractured Congress that won't address key issues like immigration or tax reform, but has wasted time and taxpayer money 65 + times in a futile effort to repeal Obamacare.

Maybe what Jamie Dimon is hoping for is that the government will come down on cryptocurrencies and save him — just like they did in 2008 when his company took $ 12billion in US taxpayer bailout money.

Whether he likes it or not, Bernanke just pledged what will likely amount to a trillion dollars of taxpayer money to Obama's reelection, thereby impacting not only the economy, but potentially immigration policy, the next Supreme Court nominee, education, and even more urgent determinations, like questions of war and peace.

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.

Parents make the critically necessary sacrifice without which society would collapse like Jeb Bush's presidential campaign: We shell out vast sums of money on everything from diapers to chess camp to prepare the next generation of taxpayers, who will be funding the retirement of people like the childless / childish Meghann Foye, whose pay - me - even - if - I - didn't - do - anything attitude says not «imaginative social thinker,» but «squeegee man.»

Right - minded people are becoming increasingly and rightfully disgusted at the amount of taxpayers» money being spent on government «initiatives» run by companies like A4E and the disgusting practices used by ATOS.

With the recent terminations of individuals like Tillerson and McMaster, I was wondering if this is costing taxpayers money.

Maude began and ended quite touchy - feely, but the meat of the piece fairly accurately represented what you might expect a Tory platform on the third sector to look like: we need a «rehabilitation revolution'to tackle unprecedented levels of reoffending, fuelled by addiction, illiteracy and family breakdown; the state consistently fails to get those who have never worked, lone parents, and those on incapacity benefit back to work; charities should be paid by results; and the third sector is means of saving taxpayer money and delivering services more efficiently and effectively.

Unfortunately, the Empire State has the third latest date in the nation for when taxpayers pay off all their tax obligations and start pocketing their hard - earned money to pay for things like mortgage, groceries, car payments, electric bills and college tuition.

That means taxpayers would no longer be able to deduct the amount they pay in state and local taxes — like income or property taxes — from their federal tax return, making it more burdensome for high - tax states to raise money for transit improvements.

June 27, 2013 (readMedia)-- The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association would like to know why New York City taxpayer monies are being used to promote personal political agendas.

You have been screwing that people of this state for many decades, and in my opinion should not only removed from the senate, and may to repay the money they can prove you screwed that state taxpayers out of, but you should be thrown in jail for fraud and / or theft like the criminal that you are.

«This is our data, this is our taxpayers» money which has created this data so I would like to be able to see it please,» he said.

Such a project could cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars - money that might come from SU, a private developer and, like the Carrier Dome, a big, long - term investment from state taxpayers.

«Cuomo likes to take control of a project, dump taxpayer money into it, and oddly enough, all the same people seem to be the beneficiaries of the contracts,» said GOP Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

Pretty blatant misuse of NY taxpayer money... thought a miser like you would be outraged when state money is given away?

Mike, you are probably correct about Skelos and the rest of the Repubs trying to make political hay on this, but Medicaid Fraud has been a problem in this State for 50 years and all the politicians have ever done is to throw money at it, shuffle agencies, people and responsibility around like a 3 - card Monty con near Penn Station and continue to screw the taxpayers with the most expensive boondoggle in the country.

«Instead of taking a stand on this common sense issue like a real leader, Larkin is wasting taxpayer money on a poll about it,» Broge said, attaching a copy of a December mailing from Larkin that posed 25 questions.

I liked, for instance, his recent statement that tax money belongs to the taxpayers, not the government.

We must send people with fresh ideas and fresh perspectives to state government to objectively address the rampant corruption, stop wasting taxpayer money, and prioritize the programs that our citizens desperately need, like prevention, treatment and recovery funding to address the growing heroin and opioid epidemic.»

It looks like a good first step towards helping immigrant children attend college, without costing the taxpayers any money.

«I had a decision to make, whether to use per diems, taxpayer money, to use like every elected official with the exception of the governor, uses in Albany or use funds, my private campaign funds before making a more permanent decision down the road,» Duffy said.

«We need to start acting like adults again and being careful with taxpayers's money.»

Unlike some New York politicians, Paterson was upfront and honest about what had happened, and unlike with some other New York politicians, it so far doesn't look like he spent any taxpayer money on it.

They treat female staff like oranges at a produce market; then, pay them off — with TAXPAYER MONEY — when they rightfully complain.

Mayor de Blasio likes using taxpayer money to create «good - paying» local jobs — unless he's campaigning.

This bill will be a waste of money just like the COBIS law which has wasted $ 30 Millions Dollars of taxpayer money.

«I don't have the money in my budget to do it and it would become an unfunded mandate to the taxpayers of Niagara County if I was to do something like that.»

He said after the speech that he liked a lot of it, but was opposed to using taxpayer money to fund public elections.

Relief from burdensome rules like being prevented from partnering with the private sector would save taxpayers money and keep us competitive with other state systems and public research universities.»

Skelos, who's said a plan pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo would be a waste of the taxpayers» money, says he's open to other means of funding, like a voluntary tax form check off.

«Companies like BT and others are taking taxpayers» money to store data on how we use their services, but doing absolutely nothing to educate their customers about what is going on.

But like all other public services, taxpayers expect us to make sure the money is spent as effectively as possible to maximise outcomes for pupils.

When the agreement is with a for - profit firm like National Heritage Academies, it's also a chance for such firms to turn taxpayer money into tidy profits.

If you're a taxpayer like me, you know how much of your money goes to public education.

Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (or what ALEC calls «educational savings accounts») work like school vouchers because they siphon off public taxpayer money for private and religious schools.

Evers also has said lawmakers need to properly fund public school districts before expanding the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher programs to ensure districts like Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee and Racine have enough money to provide needed tutoring, teachers and other programs to improve academic achievement among low - performing students.

Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, said in theory, the accounts provide parents with more flexibility because the money doesn't just have to be spent on private school tuition like in the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher program.

Instead, taxpayers should make sure to use this money for unreimbursed medical expenses like eyeglasses, prescription medications, medical equipment or copays.

It feels like Bank Of America is robbing me of more than $ 250.00 a month now in interest in addition to the bailout money that the taxpayers had to pay without our permission.

And money you spent has also enormous CO2 footprint for before you can spent it on your salary, reports grants and perks, like travel, the taxpayers must generate good and services to make them.

O'Neil said the exodus of wind spending that Payne bemoaned is a major victory for groups like FMM, who argue that erecting wind turbines is a waste of taxpayer and ratepayer money that will hurt Maine's economy by raising electricity costs while impeding tourism, Maine's biggest industry.

In fact, the companies that have received huge subsidies have been «green» energy scams like Solyndra, First Solar and Fisker, who had political connections with the White House and allow billions of taxpayer money to be wasted through crony capitalism.

However, it is not good news for folks like Trenberth that rely upon increasingly scary predictions to separate taxpayers from their hard earned money.

To force that much money out of the pockets of ratepayers and taxpayers and into the coffers of European turbine manufacturers and Big Fossil / Wind companies like Duke, NextEra and Exelon is folly.

After the biggest and most expensive propaganda campaign in human history, leading to the biggest tax increase in human history, trying to stop «global warming» that isn't happening anyway and won't happen at anything like the predicted rate is the least cost - effective use of taxpayers» money in human history, bar none — and that's saying something.