Sentences with phrase «why as a taxpayer»

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«As stewards of the taxpayer, we need to know why CMS continues to pay for this drug when Tricare and the nation's top insurance providers have severely restricted reimbursements for this drug,» Scott's letter said.

As North American taxpayers take a look at the gleaming new models on display at Detroit's auto show this week, they might well ask themselves just why they poured billions of dollars into saving GM and Chrysler when no one else would.

Why couldn't the Fed and Treasury do for Lehman what they did with other Wall Street investment firms and stock brokers: let it reclassify itself as a bank so it could pawn off its junk mortgages at the Fed's discount window for 100 cents on the dollar, sticking taxpayers with the loss?

i'm a taxpayer; does that give me the right to detailed info as to why the mayor took a sick day?

You wonder why the CDC which is an otherwise reputable and objective organization that we as taxpayers support continues to employ homebirth deaths outcome denier MacDorman.

And in that context, why shouldn't the federal government make those meals as healthful as practicable, especially since the consequences of poor childhood nutrition — obesity, obesity - related diseases, health care costs, lack of military readiness — are all borne in part by taxpayers?

Why is it reasonable for taxpayers, through gift aid, to subsidise attempts to convert them to beliefs which they might regard as immoral or obnoxious?

What I would like to know, is, why are we as taxpayers having to pay $ 100,000 plus dollar saleries for these idiots in state office.

«As taxpayers we pay for a police service that puts the public first not profits, and that is why we must continue to vehemently oppose any attempts to turn Surrey and the West Midlands into a test bed for the nation.»

«Someone from the administration had questioned some of the food bills and so we're going to post all of the receipts on - line as we do with all of our expenses on our Taxpayers Check Book and see why the administration did have some concerns, pertaining to some of the expenses, especially pertaining to food purchases, a lot of the purchases which happened after the storm had taken place,» said Mychajliw.

That is why, in order to drive up performance, help as many people into work as possible, and give the best value to the taxpayer, from August this year we began referring more claimants to the better - performing providers.»

Why did Hague, as opposition leader, agree that the deal satisfied the undertaking Ashcroft had made to him when the spirit of the undertaking was clearly that Ashcroft would become a full UK taxpayer?

That's why, as a County Legislator, I voted against the Dutchess County home energy sales tax and, as a State Senator, I will never stop working to protect the hardworking taxpayers I represent.

That left room Thursday for Sen. Len Fasano, the Republican Senate leader, to say, wait a minute, if the tax changes weren't bad for GE and the company is bluffing, as Democrats claimed in June, «then why would Gov. Malloy offer them a lot of state taxpayer money in hopes they will stay?»

It's not clear to me why this disqualified them as disruptive innovators, particularly if they're successfully invading the markets of traditional providers and capturing more and more customers (and usually doing it at lower cost to the taxpayer, though this also makes their job harder).

President Bush wrote that this was why in 2001 he pushed for NCLB's accountability - through - testing as a performance audit of the spending of federal taxpayers» dollars.

All in all, Perry offers a guide for parents to know why traditional public schools are doing little for their kids and for themselves as taxpayers.

What I don't get is why the school boards of Glens Falls and Abraham Wing don't listen to the taxpayers as to what we feel is best for our kids.

So, taxpayers of Princeton — knowing that the Board jumped the cap and went to Trenton for a waiver — why aren't you demanding a vote on the school budget, as opposed to relying on the 2 % cap, which apparently isn't a real cap in practice anyway?

As North Carolina looks ahead to school vouchers being implemented next year, read on to understand why residents can anticipate very little accountability for private schools receiving taxpayer funds.

That's why I strongly opposed the statewide expansion of taxpayer - funded private school vouchers, and as governor, I will seek to roll it back.

«I can not comprehend why taxpayers are willing to subsidize a private voucher school education system, especially when research indicates that private voucher schools perform at best as well as the public school system and in many cases below their public school peers.»

In Brian Bissell, a K12 shareholder and head of the Colorado Virtual Academy (COVA) board, explained why the school chose to fire K12 as the school operator: «It became clear that at certain points in COVA history the interests of COVA — that is our students and their families, their teachers and Colorado's taxpayers — these have not always been aligned with K12's interests.»

When coupled with the fact that there is no transparency or accountability in terms of how charters spend taxpayer dollars are the very reasons why we need to put the brakes on charter expansion and require them to serve the same student populations and be just as accountable as traditional public schools.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

In the interview with Andrea Felsted and Robert Budden, Daunt is quoted as asking, «What proportion of jobs do they create in a warehouse relative to the number they destroy on the immediate high streets around them, and why is the taxpayer funding this destruction?

As taxpayers, did members of the public «own» this art, and if so, why shouldn't they get to decide what to do with it?

The people of america, as taxpayers, have the right to know why valuable data that took possibly years to compile, could so easily be trashed seemingly within the space of a couple of days, and more tellingly, no one could «remember» what manipulations they had performed on it.

Instead of keeping the taxpayers» money, why not distribute it in order to fund micro generation projects that will actually make a difference, rather than these massive developments that rely on fossil fuel plant to be constantly spinning as a backup.

White House and Climate Change Science Program officials have never offered an honest public explanation of why the terms of that dismissal would have legally required (as distinct from an unofficial, secret political agreement) that the White House and the federal agencies suppress a taxpayer - funded, scientifically based assessment sponsored by the federal global change research program, even for purposes of using it as a scientific document or in program planning for research and future assessments.

And my real point in # 116 is how CAFE relates to carbon trading and why American taxpayers (or European or Australian taxpayers for that matter) should accept a system of cap and trade that provides subsidies for untold thousands of dubious projects such as building developing world hydro - electric plants that would have been built anyways, or that enriches untold thousands of individuals in cap and trade firms when a simple direct tax would accomplish the same goal more efficiently.

In passing it should be said that I agree with the gathering voices who are demanding an explanation as to why the CPS, in the face of all this, considered that it was worth expending very many hours and thousands of pounds of taxpayers money upon taking this man through the whole panoply of criminal courts that this country has to offer.

No firms gain more by dragging out litigation than the big firms because they have the clients with the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of capitalization who can afford, with the help of the taxpayer, to pay the astronomical fees they charge for as long as it takes to take on similar corporations similarly represented, or to squash the little guy (which is why FCT has McCarthy's on retainer and Stewart has Borden's on retainer — the given real estate file / title insurance claim is small potatoes but the title insurers make it dead obvious that if you sue them, you will up against a Big Firm.

Also, as an aside, one also has to wonder why DOJ officials felt the need to spend taxpayer dollars on LexisNexis searches when they could have relied on Google for free.

Write «Payment of Erroneous Refund,» the applicable tax period and your Social Security or taxpayer identification number on the check, along with a short explanation as to why you're returning it.

Description: Learn why amending marriage license laws such that a marriage license be treated as any other license and held to a minimal level of required education will benefit couples, children, and taxpayers and how such legislation is structured and realized.

These basic lessons are the «why» behind these two columns: * Never accept the numbers you receive from CRA as being correct; always make sure you understand and agree; * Always insist on the background calculations and assumptions to the numbers; there is no way anyone should pay a bill without understanding it; too many people just pay when it comes to CRA; * Never give up if you think you are right; having said this, I do not know yet if the company in this story will in fact file a second Notice of Objection to recover the additional $ 1,000... cost benefit does enter into the equation at times; * There are a surprising number of CRA staff in the various departments who are understanding and helpful; * As I have stated in earlier columns, there are mechanisms built into the system that protect and allow taxpayers to challenge CRA where it is appropriatas being correct; always make sure you understand and agree; * Always insist on the background calculations and assumptions to the numbers; there is no way anyone should pay a bill without understanding it; too many people just pay when it comes to CRA; * Never give up if you think you are right; having said this, I do not know yet if the company in this story will in fact file a second Notice of Objection to recover the additional $ 1,000... cost benefit does enter into the equation at times; * There are a surprising number of CRA staff in the various departments who are understanding and helpful; * As I have stated in earlier columns, there are mechanisms built into the system that protect and allow taxpayers to challenge CRA where it is appropriatAs I have stated in earlier columns, there are mechanisms built into the system that protect and allow taxpayers to challenge CRA where it is appropriate.