Sentences with phrase «taxpayers money handed»
Then there is also the amount of taxpayers money handed over to these groups for such vital activities as drinks, receptions, foreign travel and administrative support.
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Money needs to be left in the hands of taxpayers, and not redistributed to failing companies and enormous financial institutions,» wrote one respondent.
Amazon's faux competition will lure one otherwise enviable place into handing over a huge amount of its taxpayers» money to a fabulously wealthy corporation for something that place could have gotten for free.
But the law also ensures that American taxpayer money isn't used for buying weapons or equipment that will end up in the hands of children forced to fight in conflicts around the globe.
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.
Treasurer Joe Hockey said conditions available to workers in their contracts were «astounding», and that it would not have been the proper use of taxpayers» money to hand $ 25 million to the fruit processor.
The House will have noted that, for the second time, the Secretary of State was unable to give my hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (David T.C. Davies) the guarantee that he seeks that extremists have not got their hands on taxpayers» money.
The Democratic governor accepted the money — and his officials handed out the government business without competitive bids — despite federal rules that bar campaign contributors from receiving taxpayer - financed state bond work.
Clegg's team will hand back any financial gain made by selling homes bought with taxpayer money.
This is the regime Mitchell went out of his way to hand millions of pounds of British taxpayers» money to, while waxing lyrical about the need for spending cuts at home on TV and radio broadcasts.
Billed as the salvation of depressed Western New York, the Buffalo Billion sent taxpayer money into the hands of Cuomo donors, with little - to - no benefit to the public.
Even when Silver is handing those private investors what will probably be more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money, in the form of subsidies and tax breaks?
ST. GEORGE — An outlet mall that will be home to Nike, H&M and Toys R Us stores has been handed another $ 20 million in taxpayer money — just weeks after its developer donated to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election campaign, Politico New York first reported.
«If they succeed, they'll work with their liberal allies to enact an anti-taxpayer, anti-Western New York agenda, eliminate the property tax cap and hand our hard - earned taxpayer money over to illegal immigrants.»
After all, having the government hand a billion dollars in taxpayer money to the private sector is dubious in itself — never mind the opportunities it offers for corruption.»
State taxpayers handed over another $ 877 million for the state's pension plan last year, with $ 1.3 billion in seed money expected in the next fiscal year.
ST. GEORGE — Students from high schools around Staten Island had a hand in directing taxpayer money to fund improvements to their campuses as part of a $ 22 million investment from Borough President James Oddo's office.
For the fourth consecutive year, de Blasio plans to hand out money to boost the salaries of school - bus drivers under a program that has already cost taxpayers nearly $ 100 million.
«While Senator Gillibrand fights every single day to protect New York taxpayers — from opposing the flawed Wall Street bailout to delivering middle class tax cuts that save our families money and help small businesses create jobs — our opponents want to keep driving a million miles an hour with their hands off the wheel and their foot on the gas.»
The facts of this case are clear: the ex-banker tasked with cutting Britain's biggest peacetime Budget deficit handed more than # 40,000 of taxpayers» money to his boyfriend, despite parliamentary rules banning MPs from paying rent to partners.
«We wanted to intentionally put the money back into the hands of the taxpayers, where it belongs,» Mayor Brown said about the lack of reserves.
Over the years, Silver arranged payments of $ 1.2 million, nearly all of it in taxpayer money, for hush - hush civil - lawsuit settlements to six female ex - government staffers who suffered sexual harassment — or worse — at the hands of Silver's cronies.
thus this practice will end up costing the taxpayer much more money in the long run, while perpetuating the handing out of jobs through the political patronage system, rather than a more fair civil service testing system which assures better qualified people being placed in the positions.
Estimates of the amount of money that taxpayers would hand over to the state were rosier than reality should have permitted.
Maroney and Jobson were presumably so scared of not receiving the one - man - band Conservative Party line in November handed out by Lettre to his puppets, that they voted against their own Republican caucus to spend another $ 2.5 million of taxpayers» money and send the Conservative Party Chairman home happy.
It cost taxpayers» money for them to become academies and it will cost the taxpayer more money for the academies to be handed to another chain.
Public schools, on the other hand, must spend taxpayer money according to strict laws that require public oversight, transparency, and accountability.
That half a million dollars will be made up by the $ 50 - per - pupil increase in state aid negotiated by Gov. Mark Dayton, even if it is money most taxpayers would rather not be handing to the bonds issuers.
The Florida Education Association, the teachers union, says the Republicans» goal is to expand the voucher program and get more taxpayer money into private hands.
The Bronx Charter School for Excellence needs to come up with an extra $ 500,000 a year to pay off its bond holders in New York and since charter school management companies can skim off 10 % of a Connecticut charter school's revenue by way of a «management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in handy.
According to the group's most recent filing with the State Ethics Commission (filed yesterday), the corporate funded education reform advocacy front group also spent $ 14,000 for subway sandwiches and $ 6,771 to Staples to pay for the signs demanding that Connecticut legislators hand over nearly $ 21 million in scarce taxpayer money so that the infamous Steve Perry can open a publicly funded, but privately owned charter school in Bridgeport and a Bronx, New York charter school chain can save Stamford by opening up a charter school there.
As the New Haven Board of Education considers approving the deal to hand over money to help fund Achievement First Inc.'s new Elm City Imagine school, a question that arises is who exactly is behind the proposal to divert scarce taxpayer funds from New Haven and Connecticut residents to subsidize Achievement First Inc.'s effort to create the Elm City Imagine School in New Haven?
Charter executives, on the other hand, say they are able to help the schools get better deals on services and goods ranging from air - conditioners to textbooks and thus save taxpayers money.
Illegal, you say... Yeah, about as illegal as them handing over 10s of billions of taxpayers» money to bondholders during the banking crisis, I'd say?!]
The hands - off approach saves taxpayers money!
Among the targets on his hit list: the United Nations» Green Climate Fund (GCF), which hands out money for programs to adapt or mitigate global warming; the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund — saving $ 239 million; and the Global Climate Change Initiative, saving U.S. taxpayers $ 362 million.
The idea was that this more «hands off» approach would save taxpayers» money and allow companies more flexibility when creating their vehicles.
VAWA has been known from the getgo as «feminist pork» because it puts $ 1 Billion a year of U.S. taxpayers» money into the hands of the radical feminists.