Sentences with phrase «badly needed revenue»

Advocates for higher cigarette taxes cheered the proposal, saying it would cut down on smoking, provide the state with badly needed revenue and discourage cigarette smokers from switching one tobacco product for another.

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They have starved us of collective revenues that we've badly needed to maintain and enhance public services.

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

• Large firms are deserting the cities for cheaper suburban sites, taking with them employment and badly needed tax revenues.

Besides, we need the tax revenue BAD and it would be quite a blow to the cartels.

This would have brought tons of new revenue to a state badly in need of an economic shot in the arm, not just for Monmouth Park but for area restaurants, hotels and neighborhood establishments.

By simply making the City's tolling system fairer — reducing tolls that are too high and adding and restoring tolls where traffic is worst and transit options are plentiful — we can generate the revenue we need to maintain, modernize, and expand our aging transit system and improve our road and bridge network, creating 30,000 + new, local, annually recurring jobs in the process.

In some instances, the federal stimulus plan could make our financial problems worse, by providing temporary financial support for permanent increases in our base - line health care and education spending, that eventually will need new, state - level sources of revenues to support.

Cuomo then delivered an $ 89 million check to Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster, money badly needed for a city that has suffered without the revenue.

Drilling advocates, pointing to Pennsylvania, say it would generate tens of thousands of New York jobs in an economically depressed region and bring in billions in badly needed tax revenues over the next decade.

With political acrimony in Washington expected to continue, state and local governments can not wait for the federal government to create the badly needed jobs, economic activity, and resultant revenue needed to sustain themselves; they must use the options available and undertake the task on their own — and they can.

It would raise revenues the government will badly need to pay for Social Security and Medicare as old fogies like me begin to retire, as well as create incentives for energy conservation, emissions reductions, and clean technology innovation.

This has been badly needed as an investment in revenue rulings, ideas and planning as a commitment from life markets has been badly lacking for decades and this alone could drive important changes to improve the process of settlements for injury victims.

For law schools this may the revenue stream they badly need, and for the public it might be the technological change making legal education accessible and affordable.

Access to them may actually be sold to the media — perhaps even the public directly over the Internet as courts seek to use technology to provide badly - needed revenues.

The report suggests that at worst 13 % of WK's revenue's would need to be disposed of.