Sentences with phrase «where tax dollars»

«These are where our tax dollars should be spent,» he told the committee.

In recent years, the elevation of night temperatures here in Washington (where your tax dollars virtually guarantee economic growth), compared to the countryside, has become truly remarkable.

This is where your tax dollars are going.

Where Tax Dollars are Spent Tax dollars are collected by the federal government and apportioned by Congress in the federal budget to fund various governmental programs.

As I have stated before, it is time for all Indiana public school systems to stand up and share with local taxpayers the real value of where their tax dollars should be going, and that is into INDIANA PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

Look around your school district and see where tax dollars are going.

Lori Yackmack writes, «We deserve the right to choose where our tax dollars go to educate our children.

«Transparency needs to be a value for government in and of itself, so putting the people's information out there on where their tax dollars are being spent, on how their government is performing, must be a value for government,» he said.

«The expansion of Participatory Budgeting to 22 districts in the City is a testament to the Council's commitment to empowering New Yorkers and giving them the ability to decide where their tax dollars are spent,» said New York City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer.

Not exact matches

They also showed agreement, albeit to a lesser extent, with Flaherty's alternate proposal of an embedded capital tax, where financial institutions could convert debt to equity to aid the financial institution in the event of a crisis instead of using taxpayer dollars.

The concern some people have is that children will end up living for years in a local community, where they'll be entitled to education and other government services paid for with tax dollars.

Apple (aapl) saves billions of dollars in taxes through subsidiaries in Ireland, where it declares much of its overseas profit.

«We see so many situations where people get into retirement, and any time they need one dollar from their IRA or 401 (k) accounts, they need to worry about tax consequences,» Plessl and Houser tell Business Insider.

Peter Kent: Carbon pricing in any form is a carbon tax, because to be a realistic dollar figure, it would get Canadians at the gas pump for example, and right across the economy, but at the gas pump, it would get us to where Europeans are.

Why is the market going up with unemployment so high, consumer debt outrageous, an environment where taxes must go higher, energy 5xs the norm, housing still depressed, access to credit stunted, expensive war expenditures, the Greece failure, a weak dollar, and slow economic growth?

Instead of hearing about billion dollar gun - registries or carbon taxes, we all get to spend four weeks talking about potholes and roads, garbage pickup, traffic congestion, and other issues that affect people literally where they live.

«In a world where you've got a finite number of dollars you can dedicate to tax reform, if you have one year on the front end that's completely unpaid for, it ends up consuming a disproportionate amount of total resources available,» he said.

A large part of the Dollar's strength (beyond «just» the data) post - the election has been based upon this, where if the corporate tax rate were cut to say 20 %, the Dollar would by economic theory have to then appreciate 20 % (and of course too, an additional «tax factor» driving the USD bull - thesis is that a meaningful chunk of $ 2.5 T of profits held overseas by US corporates would be repatriated following a «business friendly» incentive package / one - time cut to the repatriation tax to say 8 - 10 %).

Obama is not just requiring that you have ACCESS (which you already did through Planned Parenthood and our tax dollars); he is requiring that health insurers give them away for free — that is where Obama crosses the line.

Have a candidate that can say and deliver me something to where NON of my tax dollars will be used fund any schools private or public on the teachings of this god magic, and they got my vote!

I guess that in a world where 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day, nothing threatens Christian values more than a man who wants to take our tax breaks back.

We volunteer our time and money regularly and extensively in the private sector, where we feel this duty is required and not with tax dollars.

I don't have kids, so why should MY tax dollars go to pay for YOUR kids edcuation??? See where I'm going with this?

After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.

Show me where he says anything about what Caesar should be using tax dollars for.

Imagine a country where up to 50 % of the tax dollars are allocated by the people instead of congress / government.

Opening up the state's treasure trove of digital information will spur innovation and job growth, help deliver better and more efficient government services, and save tax dollars so they can be spent where they are really needed.

In November 2015, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of 7 felony counts of federal corruption charges in a kick - back scheme where he gave $ 500,000 in state lump sum tax dollars to a physician who would refer patients to the Speaker's law firm where he would get referral fees.

So I am finding situations in my district where not - for - profit organizations and their landlords, the way they structured their leases was that the landlords would pass off the property taxes to the not - for - profit organizations, and as taxes are going up... many of these not - for - profit organizations are finding that they can't keep pace, and some are seeing increases of ten, fifteen, twenty thousand dollars a year.

Companies get tax breaks, but he says that's not where the «big dollars» are going.

A firm that manages dozens of city homeless shelters — including the Bronx site where two toddlers were killed by a radiator steam leak in December — has kept years of tax problems hidden from the city even as it continued to collect millions in taxpayer dollars.

«As a Board of Equalization Member, Betty Yee safeguarded our tax dollars, called out wasteful spending, and cracked down on the underground economy where unscrupulous businesses harm law - abiding taxpayers,» Yee explains in her ballot statement.

The recent partial rollback of the MTA payroll tax has only scratched the surface of an unacceptable situation where we in Rockland get a mere 43 cents for every dollar we convey to the MTA.

«Even police officers need toilet paper, and our taxpayers have every right to know, where public safety is not affected, what their tax dollars are being spent on.

A matching fund for state offices could be like that in New York City, where candidates must raise a lot of small donations to qualify for a larger pool of matching tax dollars, with low ceilings on overall spending.

MANHATTAN — For anyone who's wondered where his or her tax dollars go, New York City Comptroller John Liu has an answer.

The states where pot is legal have seen millions of dollars in extra tax revenue and saved even more by putting fewer people through the criminal justice system, James said.

You know, there is a little saying, don't know where it comes from, that I like my tax dollars to go to the American government.

Should the government really be spending our tax dollars to regulate what, where, and how we eat?

Our focus and our tax dollars must be placed where they will generate the greatest return — they must be used to provide a complete, well rounded, sufficiently funded education for our children.

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

I also do nt see where he has any interest in keeping people poor, since its his tax dollars also that go up.

For the richest state in the country where people making over $ 2 million dollars a year did not face any tax increase when the rest of us had big tax increases is wrong, immoral and unfair.

The movement toward boarding schools for low - income students has made some of its greatest strides in the District, where both Maya Angelou and the SEED Public Charter School receive an extra $ 14,000 in federal tax dollars each year for every student who lives on their premises.

Parents, community and teacher working together can force our tax dollars to go, not into the pockets of «school management company» execs, but into the classrooms where the money most benefits students.

Plaintiffs who brought this case, Southern Legal Foundation supporters, allege that public dollars can not be used to support a privately funded scholarship program where children use the money to attend private religious schools and donors receive state tax credits.

We strongly object to having our tax dollars suctioned out of public schools, where those hard - won rights apply, and spent to lure families into fly - by - night private schools, where all of the federal special education rights and protections disappear, to be replaced by nothing more binding than a warning of «buyer, beware!»

«There's some core principles that all the leaders here believe in — making sure that we continue to provide resources to the poorest school districts and not creating a situation where we can suddenly shift dollars from... poorer districts to wealthy districts, or alternatively, that education aid suddenly can start going to sport stadiums or tax cuts at the state level,» Obama said in remarks to the media after the meeting.

Contrast the Louisiana and Georgia judicial experiences with Indiana where the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously — the vote was 5 - 0 — in April that public tax dollars could be used to fund private school tuition.

Of course, the problem is even where teachers have agreed to a wage freeze you have increasing costs — without additional state aid — those extra dollars will have to come from the local property tax which is much more unfair for the middle class than raising money through the income tax (assuming you don't let the millionaires off the hook like the Governor did).