Sentences with phrase «used taxpayer subsidies»

«As I have said in the past, when developers voluntarily use taxpayer subsidies to make their projects work, they must do better by their employees.

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Put simply, rail fares have been too expensive for low earners for a long time — to make them affordable enough so that poorer adults use them at a similar rate to rich adults would require major cuts to fares, and therefore a major increase to taxpayer subsidy.

Heaney said taxpayers are not getting a good return for their considerable investment in major Buffalo Billion projects and that IBM has effectively said it's none of the public's business how it is using $ 55 million in subsidies.

Osborne is expected to use his summer Budget to clampdown on taxpayer - funded subsidies for social housing tenants who earn more than # 30,000 per household, or # 40,000 in London, meaning they will have to pay a market or near market rent in future.

Nuclear power's foes have also kept up an attack on the use of DOE loan guarantees for new reactors contending that the risks to taxpayers were too great unless the credit subsidy requirement was pushed far up.

The WPCP allows students who reside outside of the Milwaukee and Racine Unified school districts to use a taxpayer - funded subsidy to attend participating private or religious schools.

Without subsidies from the taxpayers and government requirements to use it, no one would, but this may be one of those cases where politics overrules sense; your (and Congress's) call.

The conclusions challenge a cornerstone of Labor's climate change policy as the federal government pours taxpayer funds into wind projects using direct subsidies, a planned $ 10 billion investment fund and renewable energy targets.

Thanks to increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions and cut the use of foreign oil, biofuels - renewable, home - grown and marketed as less damaging than fossil fuels - have used corporate and political clout to win billions in subsidies from the US taxpayer.

The issue for the public is whether TAXPAYER subsidies are used to fund wind farms.

The EF, in turn, is used by EPA to justify all its climate regulations, including its ultra-expensive so - called «Clean Power Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many coal plants be replaced with wind and solar - generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsidies.

Through their raw economic clout, transnational corporations (TNCs) are using government officials, public relations firms and the major media to insist that «free market» economics is good for us - even as they hoard taxpayer subsidies and merge into ever - larger businesses to weaken market...» Read more

So more than $ 70 million in revenue from other taxpayers was used to make direct subsidy payments to qualifying companies.