Sentences with phrase «year for public financing»

The editorial pointed out that the cost of $ 41 million per year for public financing could easily be covered by one fewer tax break for a big developer.

Not exact matches

France, for example, is expected to exit this year the European procedure for «excessive deficit» for the first time in a decade as its public finances come within the rules.

Three consortia have been shortlisted to come up with detailed proposals for Western Australia's first public private partnership for schools, with the winner to design, build, finance and maintain eight new public schools over 25 years.

Until more details are provided by the Department of Finance and / or contained in the upcoming Public Accounts, it is difficult to assess what impact the higher - than - expected deficit outcome for 2011 - 12 will have on the deficit outcome for 2012 - 13 and future years.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

Mr Fretwell has been a lawyer for over 25 years, providing corporate finance and securities law advice to publicly traded companies and to private companies proposing to go public.

Nicol noted the Finance Department's latest fiscal monitor, also made public Wednesday, shows Canada posted a $ 3.95 - billion surplus for April and May — the first two months of the 2015 - 16 fiscal year.

Edwards, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, was found not guilty of campaign finance violations in 2012 after a donor paid $ 1 million to keep knowledge of Edwards's out - of - wedlock child from becoming public the year before his presidential bid.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for years, and why movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....

Kokusai Green initially set a price of $ 230 million, according to Wayne, for the team and its 40 - year sweetheart lease with the Ice Palace, which finally opened in 1996, thanks to public financing.

If the main official national records that purport to offer an authoritative picture of the state of the public finances (for instance, PESA and the Local Government Financial Statistics) can not even be compared from year to year by experts, where should we turn?

Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014 backed a public financing system for the comptroller's race that year, intended as a pilot program of sorts.

Now that the world economy is faltering (slow growth could be the new normal for many years to come) his gamble that rising GDP would finish the job of mending the public finances looks unlikely to come off.

An administration source earlier today said the governor was open to statewide public financing system that would take effect next year, and be phased in for open - seat elections where no incumbents are running.

The impression that I have gained from the public and from business people is that Britain has had its fill of Osbornics for this year and it is time to put business rather than high finance on the agenda.

As various proposals for a broader public financing system are floated, members of the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate, as well as advocates that have pushed the measure over the years, are telegraphing they won't support any agreement they deem watered - down.

They say Governor Cuomo failed to deliver on the public campaign finance package he has been promising for four years.

The public campaign financing system in this year's budget is not really what anyone was hoping for.

Public financing supporters were upset by the compromise in this year's budget agreement that sets up a public financing system for the state comptroller's racePublic financing supporters were upset by the compromise in this year's budget agreement that sets up a public financing system for the state comptroller's racepublic financing system for the state comptroller's race only.

The $ 138 billion budget for the 2014 - 15 fiscal year applies a public financing system, but only for the state comptroller's race.

The 2014 - 15 state budget agreement in March included a public financing program for the state comptroller's race for this year only.

Last year, a year - long public financing program for the state comptroller's race was created in the budget.

Democrats in the majority there have favored a number of reforms, including public financing of campaigns, for many years.

Cuomo's proposal for campaign finance reform, which did not pass this year, would have created a system of public financing.

DiNapoli has championed public campaign financing, but won't participate in a pilot public financing system authorized for the comptroller's race this year.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

He has listed public campaign finance as a goal for several years, but has so far not been successful.

The change is expected to have implications for public campaign financing and other reforms left on the table at the end of this year's session.

Among the many provisions in the bill: end outside employment for lawmakers, ban per diem limits and dramatically tighten campaign contribution limits, restrict contributions by lobbyists, create a public financing system, and provide for a substantial salary increase for legislators while extending their terms from two years to four years.

Two Democratic victories would be necessary to (perhaps) assemble the votes for a system of public campaign finance, which Cuomo has been advocating for in the face of Republican resistance (slightly disingenuously, some charge) for several years.

After 10 years of unsustainable increases in public spending, the Labour Government has now been forced by the state of the public finances to adopt exactly this policy for the three years until 2010 - 11.

His run for speaker began two years ago and the Manhattan Democrat even eschewed the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program, which would have limited his expenditures.

The governor and legislators agreed to try out a system of public campaign financing with this year's race for state comptroller.

The governor also called the commission a «phenomenal success» for drawing interest to unseemly behavior and prompting legal changes earlier this year, including tougher enforcement at the State Board of Elections and a pilot program for public campaign finance.

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

In return, Mr. Schneiderman's plan calls for altering the state constitution to extend terms from two years to four, establishing public financing of campaigns reminiscent of New York City's matching funds system, and increasing politicians» salaries to as much as $ 174,000 a year.

Despite the severe constraints of our public finances, which have resulted from years of mismanagement and corruption, Government has contributed US$ 10 million as seed money for the Plan.

This year, both major party candidates for governor, incumbent Democrat Dannel Malloy and Republican Tom Foley, qualified for public financing and each has received more than $ 6.5 million to spend on the general election.

ALBANY — State budget bills printed late Friday include public campaign financing for just one political office this year: The state comptroller, something good government advocates balked at as an overall failure to accomplish comprehensive campaign finance reform.

She also told the New Paltz Times that what prompted her to run was, among many disappointments in Cuomo's record the past four years, «when he did not support public financing of elections this spring: something he promised to do when he ran for governor.»

The Assembly has been passing a New York City - style system of public campaign financing for years, and it has been a major piece of the Senate Democrats» agenda.

In fact, whatever else he may achieve in his pursuit of the presidency, the former Louisiana congressman and governor may be remembered as the last presidential candidate to ever receive federal matching funds; the very fact that he is the only candidate seeking and collecting those funds this year prima facie evidence that the public financing system for presidential elections is already functionally dead.

The mailer in the Nassau County Senate district touts Cronin's proposals, including term limits for state lawmakers, campaign finance reform measures such as closing the LLC loophole, boosting penalties for corruption and support for stripping public officials of their pensions if they are convicted of corruption — the latter of which is now up for second passage in the Legislature next year as a constitutional amendment.

In Governor Cuomo's State of the State address, he announced his strong support for what could be the nation's most important reform this year: public financing of elections in New York State!

The Comptroller's race has the option of a pilot program for public campaign financing, under a budget deal reached earlier this year.

A 60 - second TV ad released by advocates for public financing on Wednesday uses a speech Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year pitching the measure.

With public financing and the alignment of the governor with the legislature, Connecticut passed mandatory paid sick days, increased the minimum wage, adopted an Earned Income Tax Credit, passed in - state tuition for undocumented students, and reversed a nearly 30 - year trend that gave bottle deposits back to distributors and redirected the money to public programs.

The Assembly has long backed public matching, the most recent example being last year when Silver introduced a plan that's now touted by the coalition of groups pushing for a broad campaign finance overhaul.

To turn New York's finances around, Cuomo is pushing for a cap on state spending and a freeze on state taxes and public employee salaries as part of a one - year emergency financial plan.