By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

Many other communities in the state were taking similar action, something most of them came to regret: the bonds were quickly sold in the Europe or the East and the taxpayers of towns and townships were forced to pay for railroads that often provided indifferent service.

In less than a half a century Sons of Freedom acts of violence and arson rose to 1112 separate events and over $ 20 million in damages ( bill to taxpayers ) that included public school bombings and burnings, bombings of Canadian railroad bridges and tracks, the bombing of the Nelson courthouse, and a huge power transmission tower servicing the East Kootenay district resulting in the loss of 1200 jobs.

According to Blumenthal, the case was pursued because " the future of the Big East Conference was at risk -- the stakes huge for both state taxpayers and the university's good name.

The procedure for determining the amounts of money to be spent by county colleges and raised by taxation will certainly startle many taxpayers.

While conventional tax credit systems are structured to treat all private school participants equally, neovoucher systems effectively delegate to individual private taxpayers ( those owing money to the state ) the power to decide which private schools will benefit.

Gladstone believed that government was extravagant and wasteful with taxpayers ' money and so sought to let money " fructify in the pockets of the people " by keeping taxation levels down through " peace and retrenchment ".

Opponents, such as Dean Russell in The TVA Idea, in addition to condemning the project as being socialist, argued that TVA created a " hidden loss " by preventing the creation of " factories and jobs that would have come into existence if the government had allowed the taxpayers to spend their money as they wished.

This amount was reportedly the value of the existing courthouse and grounds, thus defusing opponents argument that abandoning the present courthouse would be a waste of taxpayers money.

During a 1976 exhibition of the work, The Times newspaper published an article using the work to complain about institutional waste of taxpayers ' money.

Opposition to the Department of Education mainly stems from conservatives, who see the department as an undermining of states rights, and libertarians who believe it results in a state-imposed leveling towards the bottom and low value for taxpayers ' money.

The new addition, dedicated to the public on September 4, 1986, did not cost the taxpayers any money.

The length of time that it took to construct the busway drew the ire of many local residents, who felt it was a huge waste of taxpayers money, especially after company bosses admitted it would only shave eight minutes off the standard A14 bus journey time.

But the people are failing to consider the hidden costs: the taxpayers are now poorer by exactly that much money.

Figures published show that the Government failed to meet its statutory target to halve the problem by 2010 – despite the huge amount of taxpayers ’ money spent on tackling it.

In 2005, Gavin Falconer questioned officialdom's complicity, writing: " The readiness of Northern Ireland officialdom to consign taxpayers ’ money to a black hole of translations incomprehensible to ordinary users is worrying ".

California Revenue & Taxation Code Section 19195 directs the Franchise Tax Board to publish an annual list of the top 250 taxpayers with liened state income tax delinquencies greater than $ 100, 000 in an effort to collect money from those taxpayers, some of whom have been delinquent since 1987.

Wyden added, " While I continue to have concerns about ensuring that taxpayers are protected if this loan is to occur, I believe that if the President can unwisely provide $ 750 billion of taxpayer money for the investment banks who took horribly unacceptable risks and helped trigger an economic collapse, we certainly have a duty to attempt to preserve a cornerstone domestic industry and the jobs of hundreds of thousands of working people whose personal actions are in no way responsible for the current economic crisis.

During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

In essence, they forced European banks, and, more importantly, the European Central Bank itself when gauging the solvency of financial institutions, to rely more than ever on standardized assessments of credit risk marketed by two private US agencies-Moody ’ s and S & P, thus using public policy and ultimately taxpayers ’ money to strengthen an anti-competitive duopolistic industry.

In essence, they forced European banks, and, more importantly, the European Central Bank itself e. g. when gauging the solvency of EU-based financial institutions, to rely more than ever on the standardized assessments of credit risk marketed by two private US agencies-Moody ’ s and S & P, thus using public policy and ultimately taxpayers ’ money to strengthen an anti-competitive duopolistic industry.

The pipeline consumed more oil than it produced and cost taxpayers an enormous amount of money.

SAIC executive vice president Arnold L. Punaro claimed that the company had " fully conformed to the contract we have and gave the taxpayers real value for their money.

They send out a crew and spend taxpayers ' money to look for a person that never existed.

The Auditor General for Wales is the public official in charge of the Wales Audit Office, the body responsible for auditing the Welsh Assembly Government and £ 20 billion of taxpayers ' money each year.

Approximately £ 10 million of British taxpayers money, equivalent to £ 40 million in 2010, went missing.

The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.

`` Failure to do this will continue to place a disproportionate burden '' on Fulton taxpayers.

Hatikvah school officials emphasize that charter schools can often educate students at a lower cost than traditional public schools and that " taxpayers do not pay an extra penny for having a charter school in town, period ".

However, a merger vote planned for November 2, 2010, was delayed until 2011 due to Governor Christie's elimination of equalization funds that ensured some taxpayers do not pay more due to the merger.

The Court ruled 5-4 that taxpayers do not have the right to challenge the constitutionality of expenditures in made by the executive branch.

According to some estimates, about three percent of taxpayers do not file tax returns at all.

In 1993 when he was the British science minister he observed that British taxpayers were paying a lot of money ( in contributions to CERN ) for something very few of them understood, and he challenged UK particle physicists to explain, in a simple manner on one piece of paper, ' What is the Higgs Boson, and why do we want to find it?

The CTF further pointed out that " It is especially difficult to understand anyone asking for government help that refuses to do anything to help itself to begin with ", since they " fail to realize they've existed at the substantial largesse of taxpayers for decades ".

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities states that three-quarters of taxpayers pay more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes.

When urged by a taxpayers ’ watchdog group to end all oil and gas industry tax breaks to help the federal deficit Bishop stated that he believed " Raising taxes on American energy producers and consumers will do nothing to bring down gas prices and will only further hinder job creation ," and refused.

US citizens, taxpayers and shareholders " are entitled to know as much about the tax-exempt entities to which the federal government provides tax subsidies, contracts or access to policy debates as they do about publicly traded corporations ," they wrote.

The taxpayer contended that reimbursement given for children attending private religious schools violated the constitutional prohibition against state support of religion, and the taking of taxpayers ' money to do so violated the constitution's Due Process Clause.

Mr Davison refused stating the supremacy of EU law over UK law when in matters of weights and measures as held by the House of Lords in 2001 ; thus eventually won with the case against him being dropped after appealing to prime minister Gordon Brown and his local MP Ed Miliband, who advised Doncaster Trading Standards to stop wasting taxpayers money and do something useful with their time which the taxpayer actually pays for.

The result of the amendments to the Act means that most US taxpayers do not know how the VOA ( and its successor agencies ) operate or what their programming content was, as was noted in 1967 by the Stanton Commission report noted above.

Though taxpayers may choose to litigate tax matters in a variety of legal settings, outside of bankruptcy, the Tax Court is the only forum in which taxpayers may do so without having first paid the disputed tax in full.

Under these proposals, taxpayers would be given exemptions and a standard deduction in order to ensure that the poor do not pay any tax.

The case was dismissed on Dec. 30, 2004, with the judge ruling that US citizens do not have any right to sue a sitting President, based on the Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity ; that the lawsuit " presents a non-justicable political question ;" that the plaintiffs " lack standing to sue on behalf of all taxpayers ;" that the plaintiffs " failed to establish the required causal connection between alleged injuries and these defendants ' conduct ;" and that " deficiencies of the complaint could not be cured by amendment.

But the taxpayers do support them, and that is why we cannot halt these activities.

Some other taxes, based on personal income, are allocated to social agencies and do not give taxpayers the right to benefit from them.

On March 7, 2006 the plaintiffs filed a Brief in Opposition to the Governor's argument, pointing out that they do not sue " simply because they pay taxes ," but because the state does not treat all taxpayers equally.

Richard Katskee, assistant legal director for Americans United, said of the trial's cost, " Any board thinking of trying to do what the Dover board did is going to have to look for a bill in excess of $ 2 million ," and " I think $ 2 million is a lot to explain to taxpayers for a lawsuit that should never be fought.