Sentences with phrase «turning on the taxpayer»

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«Mr. Speaker, it is clear after the Minister of Finance's attack on the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Mr. Kevin Page, that it is the Prime Minister's intention to turn the taxpayers» watchdog into his personal lapdog.

The cheapest solution for Chicago taxpayers would be to turn over Soldier Field to McCaskey, eliminate all the city taxes, give him all the profits on concessions and parking, renovate the facility along the lines of the 1992 plan, and have the Park District continue to pay the $ 12 million a year that it costs to operate the stadium.

«This is definitely «Breaking Bad» by potentially turning a bunch of Jesse Pinkmans into Walter Whites — all on the taxpayer's dime.»

But several aspects of the plan — including the use of $ 25 million in taxpayer money to turn public property into a stable for the private carriage industry, the move to curtail the pedicab industry, the loss of carriage driver jobs and the resulting shuttering the current stables on the West Side — have aroused considerable opposition from various corners, most recently from 68 owners of horse carriage medallions, who blasted their union for agreeing to the deal.

Taxpayers will put enough pressure on locally elected officials that will in turn lead to reduced costs and lower property taxes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday in Syracuse.

Reed, a Corning Republican who is drafting a tax - reform compromise in which that deduction may be turned into a tax credit with limits for upper - income homeowners, said on Facebook that his plan would ensure a tax cut for local property taxpayers in New York State.

«I laugh at all those who turned up their nose at me,» said Shirley L. Huntley, a former state senator from Queens who spent 10 months in federal prison in Danbury, Conn. — the institution on which the women's prison in «Orange Is the New Black» is based — after pleading guilty in 2013 to stealing more than $ 87,000 in taxpayer money through a nonprofit she ran.

Zimet was then challenged off of the primary ballot and has now turned her attention to mold at the town offices in New Paltz, dog parks and out - of - town developers hosing taxpayers on a student housing project.

«What is becoming quite clear is that the academy and free school programme is turning its back on an education system that is accountable to the taxpayer.

When combined with a federal tax loophole that allows taxpayers to receive a federal deduction on a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit, 10 of these states» credits are so lucrative that they allow some upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit (at federal taxpayer expense) on contributions they make to fund private school vouchers.

Rising affluence has turned more Brazilians and Chileans into taxpayers, which increases pressure on the government to provide better public services and to meet citizens» demands.

Ten of these states actually allow taxpayers to turn a profit on their donations to private schools.

In another example of how the wealthy use the tax code to their benefit while public schools suffer, some states are funneling public dollars to private schools and allowing businesses and upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit in the process, according to a report released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).

During the very same time, Malloy and Wyman have turned their backs on the students, parents, teachers and taxpayers that actually support and fund Connecticut's public school system.

Of the schools that have been terminated from the program, a handful are also on the state Department of Revenue's delinquent taxpayer list for not repaying overpayments from the state based on enrollment projections that turned out to be too high.

The voucher expansion proposal is funded by reducing public schools» state aid, which in turn, lands on the local taxpayer to keep the public schools afloat.

«For a Republican Party that has fought hard against wasting money, that has pushed for a focus on results for taxpayer dollars, turning back the clock would be truly hypocritical,» Duncan said in a speech at a Washington, D.C., elementary school.

I've just realized that the Turnaround Model the state is so anxious to effect on its «lowest performing schools» and of which Andrea Comer and Michael Sharpe are experts should actually be called the Turn Over Model — as in, Turn Over your public taxpayer dollars to a private «non-profit» charter company, such as FUSE or Achievement First.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

Why on earth would the Norwalk Board of Education turn control of Norwalk's schools over to someone who is not only on Malloy's payroll but is actually one of Malloy's most outspoken witnesses in a case that would benefit the children AND taxpayers of Norwalk.

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

In terms of who is paying for it, the goal of Best Friends, HSUS, Downtown Dogs, Ruff Riders and every other humane organization that offers services to the low - income population is to ensure that these folks get what they need for their pets so their animals don't get turned into the shelter (which not only means more animals killed, but is a burden on the taxpayer).

Pet owners feel a right to turn over unwanted dogs and cats to the humane society or county animal control, assuming adoption will follow, and disregarding the associated costs.In most cases, these pets are not adopted, and responsibility for destroying and disposing of the animals falls on the taxpayers.

[there are countless examples of unmitigated BS from the pro-AGW industry: for just two instances, take climateprediction.net's scaremongering last year on 11C temperature increases, or Tim Flannery's recent taxpayer - funded ads in South Australia claiming turning off your lights will ease global warming].

The argument is not about whether any individual measure affects global warming (at some level, every measure does), but whether an expensive advertising campaign focused on turning off domestic lighting is the best use of taxpayer funds.

And Robert Balling is a geography professor at Arizona State who turns up as an expert on several industry funded (taxpayer subsidized) policy hothouses masquerading as «think tanks» and educational organizations.

«It is therefore not surprising that state legislatures are stepping in to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not spent in a manner that turns an important and ongoing scientific debate into a propaganda assault on impressionable students,» Taylor said.

The way the program is structured puts the burden on the consumers, turning the Renewable Energy Act subsidy into a levy paid by the taxpayer.

Projects sold to the public as planet - saving turn out to be vehicles for people with government connections to get their hands on taxpayer - funded loans and subsidies.

Nevertheless, there is also bad news; the actual incarnation of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice on the most part has turned its back on taxpayers and is more interested in favouring the Mexican Treasury, even if it results in contradicting or overriding previous legal precedents.

But taxpayers are left wondering whether this powerful check on what otherwise might be arbitrary or capricious assessments is effectively abandoned where that state turns to a third - party, operating without transparency and on a contingent - fee basis, to pursue assessments under a highly technical area of the law (i.e., transfer pricing) with which the state department of revenue may, itself, have only limited experience.

The Queen, the Tax Court of Canada recently awarded costs above the Tariff to a taxpayer who was partly successful in an appeal turning on the determination of the fair market value of shares, and ordered...

A. New Housing Financing System for Middle Class Families and Economic Stability: Today, the President made clear it is time to turn the page on an era of housing bubbles and taxpayer bailouts, and build a new housing finance system that will provide secure homeownership for responsible middle class families.