Sentence examples for expensive taxpayers from inspiring English sources

More obviously, a generous welfare state makes each additional immigrant more expensive; taxpayers naturally then want fewer of them coming in.

WaMu shareholders and certain bondholders were wiped out, avoiding another expensive taxpayer-financed bailout.

Some birds sold cheaply in Egyptian markets belong to threatened species that benefit from expensive, taxpayer-funded EU conservation programmes.

The State Ethics Commission is investigating him over accusations that he bought expensive taxpayer-financed airline tickets and did not report the use of private aircraft.

Mr. Clinton, for his part, had been battered by critics over last-minute presidential pardons and over his initial plan to lease an expensive, taxpayer-funded office suite in Carnegie Hall Tower on West 57th Street.

The extortion boom comes at a time when many Communist Party members are begrudgingly enduring a government austerity campaign, pushed by President Xi Jinping himself, that has denied them the expensive, taxpayer-financed banquets and chauffeured sedans once considered the birthright of Chinese officialdom.

Fortunately, there's a way forward that both labor and business support and doesn't require an expensive taxpayer bailout.

Since I'm obviously out the door anyway, State's decision to employ its internal security tools and expensive, taxpayer-paid legal maneuvers at this late date can't really be about shortening my tenure by a meager four months.

The administration's sudden interest in taxing banks is at least in part a proactive PR response to the popular outrage expected to accompany news in the coming days of multimillion dollar bonuses being showered on the executives of banks that most likely wouldn't have survived without a very expensive, taxpayer-funded rescue effort.

But that system has been terribly expensive for taxpayers.

The law also proved to be very expensive for taxpayers.