Sentences with phrase «balanced by raising taxes»

Nearly as many people think the CPS budget should be balanced by raising taxes on businesses as by closing schools.

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Flaherty is still committed to a balanced budget by 2015 without raising taxes or making cuts to provincial transfers.

A GfK Roper poll sponsored by the Associated Press and conducted around the same time showed 69 % felt taxes would have to be increased to balance the budget, compared to just 29 % of Americans who felt it could be balanced without raising taxes.

Gov. Deal has overseen three balanced budgets without raising taxes, saved millions of taxpayer dollars by maintaining Georgia's AAA bond rating, and increased our rainy day fund by more than 500 %.

«What we are seeing is a governor who does not want a thorough and balanced review by an objective tax commission and who is creating what should be called the «Commission to Endorse the Governor's Tax Cut Plan,»» said Ron Deutsch of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, another progressive group that argues for government spending and, often, raising taxtax commission and who is creating what should be called the «Commission to Endorse the Governor's Tax Cut Plan,»» said Ron Deutsch of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, another progressive group that argues for government spending and, often, raising taxTax Cut Plan,»» said Ron Deutsch of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, another progressive group that argues for government spending and, often, raising taxes.

It widened the divide between Labour and the Tories further by raising inheritance tax to 60 per cent for estates worth more than # 1m, in order to balance out extensive public expenditure cuts.

The Reform Party wishes to balance the budget by addressing these issues, and raising revenue by cutting special interest tax loopholes.

• So could the many other bills that need to be passed by tomorrow, including but not limited to: New York City's adjusted sales tax, which is needed to balance the city budget; a bill to renew federal support for special education; and a bill to allow the city to continue to sell bonds to raise money.

«Working together, as I've said again and again was going to happen, we've produced an on - time, balanced budget for our city that does not raise taxes on New Yorkers and that preserves the essential services that we all rely on,» the mayor said at a press conference at City Hall, flanked by dozens of City Council members.

«We look forward to working with the Governor and Assembly to balance the budget by cutting spending, not raising taxes.»

Without the School Code, school districts could have been left high and dry and may have had to make up for a significant loss of special education funding by drawing down their fund balances, making cuts or raising property taxes.

But he offers an inadequate response, analogous to acknowledging the political obstacles to producing a sensible budget and then proposing to avoid hard choices and address the deficit by funding R&D projects with the hope they will produce new technologies that will rev up so much economic growth that we can balance the budget while also cutting taxes and raising government spending.