At the very least, negotiators need to eliminate the giveaways in the bill, require insurers to pay their fair share, reduce costs for taxpayers and make sure that they don't choke the fast-developing market for terror insurance.
Quotes about giveaways (16 Quotes)
There can never be any excuse for sacrificing our childrens futures to keep corporate tax loopholes and tax giveaways to millionaires. If we cant put our children first, who can we put first If we cant put our kids first, what does it say about our nation
This is the cost of Congress letting oil companies write public policy. The oil and gas royalty holiday is one of the most egregious giveaways of taxpayer money in our history and it can and should be stopped. This program is not justified, period. But it is even more outrageous coming at a time when Congress is cutting food stamps, home heating assistance and college loans for poor and middle class families. You just cannot justify giving away 7 billion in tax dollars to oil companies recording the largest profits ever in corporate history.
You can't claim to be a fiscal conservative and support the profligate spending and corporate welfare in this bill, ... twelve hundred page monstrosity chock full of special interest giveaways.
At the same time, their bill creates a new system of giveaways to developers and real estate speculators regardless of whether their land claims are legitimate and with no limits on how much the taxpayer will be asked to pay, ... This action will produce harmful consequences for taxpayers and devastating consequences for endangered animals, fish, and plants.
The owners can sit there and do giveaways and lower ticket prices to get the fans back to the game knowing that what they are really doing is taking it out of our pockets, ... It's important to get people back into the arenas to watch hockey, but it is a lot easier to do when (the owners) know they still get money back because they are taking it out of our paycheck. In essence, the players are paying for all the giveaways and free stuff that the owners are doing. Which is all well and good, but you don't hear about it.
The president often says it is the responsibility of elected officials here in Washington to face today's challenges and not to pass them on to future generations. Yet it is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health-care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation.
This year the booths have really taken it to the next level as far as the promotional giveaways and the professional appearance. We're getting a lot of comments on the giveaways.
All teens are invited. We have wonderful giveaways. Everybody that comes will walk away with something.
As we did the previous two years of this partnership, Rock Financial will do many things to help enhance the game day experience. We'll be involved in pre-game tailgate parties, ticket giveaways, contests, premium giveaway nights and the Rock Financial parachute drop. We also will provide opportunities for fans to win trips, tickets and merchandise during the broadcasts and in-game.
If you make a lot of yards and you turn the ball over, then you don't score points, ... So that's a tough lesson to learn. Maybe I'm looking at the good side of it Maybe it's good we get the lesson now. Last year, we started out the season and that's exactly what haunted us -- we turned the ball over and right now we're next to last in the league in terms of giveaways and takeaways.
It's a very important part of our marketing effort to increase ticket sales and improve sponsorship relations. When a family decides to come out to Shea for a game, the first thing a lot of them do is look at the promotion schedule. They look for giveaways or any other added benefit.
This is a full-scale assault on middle-class homeowners, and we need even at this early moment to indicate to the president that we'll bear any burden to defend against it. We ought to take a look at the lavish tax giveaways we give to huge corporate interests.
As soon as we announced the '86 celebration dates and those giveaways, the sales for those tickets increased. Promotions are a factor and people do consider them when they are buying tickets for games.
You don't have to RSVP to be in the audience, but we like to know who's going to be in the audience (because) we have promotional giveaways. It's not just an average local show.
He's dead wrong. There have been no giveaways.