Sentences with phrase «throwing taxpayer dollars»

On your argument any measure that reduces GHGs is worthy of throwing taxpayer dollars at in the form of advertising.

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.

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So firm was Lopez's hold on his Democrat - dominated borough that elected officials and would - be elected officials alike would routinely make the pilgrimage to the taxpayer - funded Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Center picnic he threw every year, and those with the power to do so approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of NYC and state member items that the assemblyman used to build his senior services empire.

The American public education system, by most accounts, is broken, despite taxpayers throwing billions of dollars at it.

For decades, we threw money at education without making sure our schools were actually improving, or whether we were giving teachers the tools they need, or whether our taxpayer dollars were being used effectively.

Yup, you read that correctly, after taxpayers were forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing the Common Core and the Common Core Tests and students and teachers wasted unfathomable amounts of time prepping and taking the tests that were designed to label the vast majority of students as failures, the «lead» state behind the SBAC testing scheme simply threw out results.

«The former Labor government's failed energy policies forced it to throw more than half - a-billion dollars of taxpayers» money at the problems it had created.»

Being an apologist for the enormous waste of taxpayer dollars being thrown away on «global warming» is a major factor in our country's slide into bankruptcy.

An «omnibus» spending bill to fund the federal government through October 2015 throws up roadblocks for the Obama administration's climate agenda, namely by blocking taxpayer dollars from going to the United Nations global warming fund.

«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.