Sentence examples for taxpayer behind from inspiring English sources

Nov. 15, 2017, 3 35 p.m. Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove) stood up at a closed-door meeting of House Republicans this week and urged colleagues to "leave no taxpayer behind" as they weigh the tax bill scheduled to come before them Thursday.

Private firms with a low cost of funds and the taxpayer behind them are prone to recklessness: just look at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

In recent months, publishers of scientific journals have been criticised by academics for locking the work produced by their peers, and funded largely by taxpayers, behind paywalls and charging UK universities around £200m a year for access.

After all, there is something wrong in principle with JSTOR and with any database that keeps scholarship, which is heavily subsidized by taxpayer money, behind a paywall.

Regardless of the details, Mr. Fine said, an increase in federal deposit insurance has been a passion of his members — especially now that federal regulators have begun putting taxpayer money behind shotgun marriages for loss-plagued banking giants like Washington Mutual.

When the government (and thus the taxpayer) stands behind the banks, a strategy of making risky bank loans can never be a purely private matter.We must break the cycle of higher house prices followed by loose credit standards, followed by collapse.

What is known is that Lord Ashcroft's long-time business associate Philip Osborne sat on the board of Telemedia, and the peer helped to negotiate a controversial 2005 agreement between Telemedia and the then government, which put taxpayer guarantees behind Telemedia's profitability– a sweetheart deal Mr Barrow has repudiated.

He'd later say he couldn't support putting taxpayer money behind the effort.

If the media don't go after this story with the same passion they went after morsels from the campaign trail, or with the same intensity they are going after every Blago/Burris nugget, and allow the government and its cronies to disperse a huge pot of taxpayer money behind closed doors, we know what's going to happen.

That's a deal that teachers and taxpayers can get behind, though getting there requires that the sugar high of Harris' plan be left behind.

When it comes to redress and reward, bank shareholders should be at the back of the line, behind taxpayers who stand behind too-big-to-fail banks and behind homeowners who are bearing the brunt of a housing debacle for which banks bear considerable responsibility.