Sentences with phrase «taxpayers money handed over»
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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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.
«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.»
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.
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.
Estimates of the amount of money that taxpayers would hand over to the state were rosier than reality should have permitted.
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?
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?!]