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Currently, taxpayers spend about 60,000 dollars per year sending a person to jail.
There is one project in the California court system right now that so far cost taxpayers two billion dollars, and it doesn't work.
Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens, agree that that's what we ought to be doing and that's how we ought to be spending our money.
Contrary to what most people think, people don't pay, taxpayers don't pay, for your life when you're in prison.
It is an economic crime, because we're involving the looting of taxpayers' money.
He told us that, in fact, two out of every three dollars of our petrodollars that we spent, the taxpayers' money, was wasted or stolen.
One billion dollars of our taxpayers' money has been located in offshore bank accounts.
And he stayed in jail for eight months until his case came up for trial, at a cost to taxpayers of more than 9,000 dollars.
We reminded them that when businesses pay workers a living wage, taxpayers are relieved of the burden of funding the poverty programs like food stamps and medical assistance and rent assistance that those workers need.
We reminded them that low-wage workers make terrible taxpayers, and that when you raise the minimum wage for all businesses, all businesses benefit yet all can compete.
Look at Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, where people who have been addicted to heroin for many years and repeatedly tried to quit and failed can get pharmaceutical heroin and helping services in medical clinics, and the results are in: Illegal drug abuse and disease and overdoses and crime and arrests all go down, health and well-being improve, taxpayers benefit, and many drug users even put their addictions behind them.
But here, taxpayers are footing the bill and what kids are getting is a cold prison cell and a permanent mark against them when they come home and apply for work.
Now, the problem here is that we the taxpayers are not getting what we pay for, because 94 percent of federal IT projects are over budget or behind schedule.
You taxpayers, you choose.
We could tell the taxpayers, we can save you 31.6 percent over the cost of leaving someone to struggle for survival on the streets.
Rather than focusing on individuals, we should focus on the circles around them, because these are the people who are left behind: the voters, the taxpayers, the ones who are suffering that loss.
That so many of the city's most venerable taxpayers have survived yet another commercial building boom, is cause for celebration.
This comes at a high cost to taxpayers and produces no proportional benefits.
And it is my task, on behalf of the rest of the world, to convey a thanks to the U.S. taxpayers, for Demographic Health Survey.
Each year, one in 10 taxpayers receives a notice from the IRS.
Since Hack has been gone I see them as eyesore's and an unneeded strain on taxpayers.
What a waste of Kiwi taxpayers' money, what a lost opportunity to make a great film about a vibrant community.
The movie was produced with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the West German Kunstministerium, another example of taxpayers' money going to waste.
Right - they were friends and protected and working with CIA help and American taxpayers money.
Emanuel’s spokesperson, Matt McGrath, recently issued a statement explaining that, “FIFA could not provide a basic level of certainty on some major unknowns that put our city and taxpayers at risk.”
In the end, Emanuel’s office concluded that, “The uncertainty for taxpayers, coupled with FIFA’s inflexibility and unwillingness to negotiate, were clear indications that further pursuit of the bid wasn’t in Chicago’s best interests.”
The ECB argued that taxpayers should pick up the entire tab for Greece’s bad sovereign debt, for fear that any private-sector involvement (PSI) would trigger a “credit event,” which would force large payouts on credit-default swaps (CDSs), possibly fueling further financial turmoil.
As a result, the need for government transfers, such as health benefits and state pensions will increase, but the relatively smaller share of working taxpayers in the population will make it harder to pay these charges.
The process of collecting and verifying claims is time-consuming, and the net benefit for taxpayers is low.
When tax evasion is extremely common, taxpayers are likely to experience high transaction and psychological costs in resorting to tax auditors to enforce the issuing of receipts.
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