Sentences with phrase «used tax payer»

But a review of «Alternative Learning Experience» programs by the State Auditor found that the majority of them had mis - used tax payer founds including paying for horseback riding lessons, ski trips and even remodeling a church.

Both also used tax payer dollars to bail out big corporations.

«We do not want to use tax payer money... to subsidize projects that pay poverty wages,» City Councilman and chief sponsor Oliver Koppell told the riled - up crowd.

«I can't go out and use the tax payer money to claim that I am accounting to the people to campaign as somebody has been doing.

The presentation includes an initial discussion / debate about whether using tax payers money for legal aid is a necessity or whether the opportunity...

They call themselves «school reformers» and petition state legislatures to use tax payer funds to replace public schools with charter schools.

Isn't it about time we use our tax payer dollars to start teaching children something?

Unfortunately there are people with political agendas and vested interests opposed to charging stations, especially if they use tax payer money.

Another Department of Energy (DOE) long shot bet using tax payer money on a renewable energy source.

Shit they wont even share data collected using tax payers money in case someone might find something wrong with it.

Not exact matches

If they used a different plan, their chances of default are still low, yet they are still choosing a plan that eventually displaces their debt onto tax payers.

The data is collected using Canadian tax - payer funds, and we believe use of the data should not be restricted to those who can afford the exorbitant fees.

Any of you high rate (40 %) tax payers out there using LifeStrategy in the taxable part of your portfolio?

Sadly, a lot of people using these programs think that it is the government's (tax payers) responsiblity to support them.

Newt in his poltical career was the king of using tax - payer subsidized donations for his personal and political purposes.

They are not really against birth control, as they are against using tax - payer dollars to pay for birth control, or the government requiring churches and religious organizations to offer birth control as part of their group medical insurance plans.

You can't take taxpayer money and then use that taxpayer money to discriminate against the tax payer who is paying you.

80 % of the argument is that tax payers dollars is being spent on this cross and that its shoving religion down peoples throats, making the root of the problem the funding for the memorial, and using the religious part as a cover up.

This drives the cost to the tax payer up much more than a universal health care program that would treat everyone fairly by private physicians and use the more expensive emergency rooms for emergencies as they were intended.

only crosses paid for with tax payer money can be removed using tax money.

Has the same anaesthetising effect as when I hear people belly - ache and voice their mock indignation at the use of «tax - payers money».

Jerry Richardson is an all - around great humanitarian and lover of Charlotte - area tax - payer money, but he could use a lesson in sportsmanship.

While this exercise does reveal the total «cost» of the MP to the tax payer, using absolute figures to rank or compare parliamentarians fails to account for the crucial fact that different MPs are given different budgets caps.

The President's use of Blomberg's report to measure his as administration's performance is a vindication of my position and corroborated by many Ghanaians that this government is spending billions of the tax payers money on media propaganda and projection.

While Government remains committed to improving road infrastructure in cocoa growing areas, there is a «value for money» audit to ensure that the tax payers» monies are used judiciously and efficiently.

«We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development subsidies, tax payer monies that are being used to subsidize private corporations that were supposed to create jobs,» he said.

FPI joined the rally, where ordinary tax payers, elected officials, community organizations and labor unions called for a 0.5 % New York State tax on stock buyback trades, which would mean corporations using their federal tax cuts simply to benefit their shareholders would have to pay a small New York State tax on... (read more)

«All these equipment have been made possible through the judicious use of tax payers money and funds from the State Lottery Fund for good causes.

Claims from political opponents that he had prostate cancer have been denied but civil society groups still want to know whether tax - payers» money was used for the private treatment.

A 2009 audit report revealed that up to 60 billion Cedis of the tax payer's money taken from the TOR debt recovery levy, the HIPC etc. was used to fund a so called communication strategy which was only a euphemism for a conduit used to siphon state funds into the NPP campaign.

On our part, we would continue to ensure that tax payers» money is put to good use.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

Mark - Viverito also defended the city's plan to use millions of tax payer dollars to upgrade a building located near the 85th Street Transverse to house the horses, saying she did not believe it would set a precedent.

Seeing as the town used 4,000 tons of sand last Winter, the cost benefit for the town's tax payers is obvious.

That is the discussion that we are holding now, to see how we can use the proceeds from lean gas and from other gas sources to finance any infrastructure that is built and not put the load for such infrastructure on the tax payer and increase public debt,» Mr. Terkper noted.

Did he or did he not use state aircraft to fly to campaign events on the tax payers» dime?

what happened to his admissions of affairs at the holiday inn on the tax payer dollar and the cocaine use.

He offers humorous and incisive takes on all aspects of political life: from the build - up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax - payers» money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use.

He also wants the state to enact a single - payer universal healthcare system, which would lower over health care costs by more than $ 50 billion annually while ending the need for counties to use the property tax to pay for Medicaid.

«There's been a tendency to take the solution out of the hide of the municipal workers, the tax payers and the people who use city services,» said Brodsky.

What a difference a year makes - the fact that we're getting this transparency and proper apologies for unreasonable uses of expenses is down to the hard work of people like the Tax payer Alliance.

Instead of comparing the price of organic food with «conventional» foods, what we should use for an apples to apples comparison is the cost of sustainably grown, organic food prices vs. the food price of US tax payer subsidized, toxic food, which is what «conventional» food actually is.

2017 - 18 will see, for the first time, a variance in the income tax thresholds and rates to be used between Scottish rate tax payers and those in the Rest of the UK (rUK).

Free schools have created surplus school places in areas where they aren't needed, which isn't a good use of tax payers» money, particularly in the middle of a school funding crisis.

The staff stated that those fees, that come from California tax payers, must «be held in a separate account and used solely to support Bay Area Rocketship schools.

We reject the bad - faith manipulation found in SB 1362 which legitimizes using scant dollars meant for our public schools to create separate, unequal systems of tax - payer funded schools.

All Catholic schools save the tax - payer a ton of money and to the extent Catholic parents choose not to use them, either taxes rise or public schools end up with larger classes.

This is the same school district that used state tax payer funds intended for public schools to remodel a church!

Educational advocates are concerned not only about changes in the use of tax - free college savings accounts (529 Plans), but also restrictions on the amount tax payers can deduct for state and local taxes, which in turn are used to fund public education.

I am pleased to see a document, such as this, which speaks to something as important as our education system that uses proper scientific citing of bona fide papers on the subject as opposed to emotional arguments meant to sway voters or think - tank «papers» from thinly (or otherwise) veiled lobby groups whose intent is NOT the betterment of our educational system but rather the increase of funneling of tax - payer dollars away from socially responsible infrastructures (like education) and towards already wealthy private corporations.