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  • While Hanley and ESMD staff continue to make sickly complains about phasing of funds, they forget that the NASA funding is a privilege and not a right given by the tax-payer. weary

    Trying To Spin The Facts - NASA Watch 2009

  • I wonder how many tax-payer dollars went to fund this?

    Chris Scolese, Dancing Machine - NASA Watch 2009

  • Proper balance between research and commercialization is a matter of considerable debate in academic research circles, but most feel that it is the occasional implementations that actually convert tax-payer funded research into public use and benefit that politically justifies continued federal and state support for university research.

    Kevin L. Kearns: Amazing Grace (Periods) in Current U.S. Patent Law Kevin L. Kearns 2011

  • Yeah, “Madame, YOU go and seek charity while * I* get tax-payer covered healthcare.”

    Oh, Lord. « Dating Jesus 2009

  • India's new nawabs and maharajas are the 50 or so political families the Karunanidhi family in TN and the Pawar family in Maharashtra as well as the Nehru family at the centre readily come to mind who have turned politics into a family business and helped themselves to billions of tax-payer dollars and claim first-dibs on any new economic opportunity that presents itself by controlling licenses, clearances etc..

    Arundhati Roy: India's bold and brilliant daughter 2011

  • I feel that getting one e-mail from the tax-payer who suffers from this everyday is not too much to ask.

    2009 July | Zeeshan Hamid 2009

  • From meaningless professional development to useless equipment and inflated text books and supplies--to name just a few examples--the wasting of these funds not only leaves less to be spent in ways that actually impact students but also erodes tax-payer confidence and creates the misimpression that increased funding for schools won't improve things.

    Larry Strauss: Students First and Other Lies Larry Strauss 2011

  • From meaningless professional development to useless equipment and inflated text books and supplies--to name just a few examples--the wasting of these funds not only leaves less to be spent in ways that actually impact students but also erodes tax-payer confidence and creates the misimpression that increased funding for schools won't improve things.

    Larry Strauss: Students First and Other Lies Larry Strauss 2011

  • If you agree with me that this is a waste of tax-payer money then please join me and leaving a note to your councillor.

    2009 July | Zeeshan Hamid 2009

  • Rather than fritter tax-payer dollars away on frivolities like, say, apartments, at least seven freshman congressmen have opted to sleep in their offices.

    Read this: the congressional slumber-party, not so posh; more trouble for Albert Haynesworth The Reliable Source 2011

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