Sentences with phrase «conservative think tank says»

But the head of a fiscally conservative think tank says the only outcome of a modified property tax cap is, higher taxes.

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But he acknowledged that student debt was a «huge issue», telling the Bright Blue liberal conservative think tank's conference: «If you wanted to say you want to reduce that (fees) then either fewer people go to university or the experience would be less.

«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

«We get millions of reports every week of potential violations,» Monika Bickert, Facebook's vice president of global policy management, said during a discussion at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, in Washington on Tuesday.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

Ben Ryan from the religion and society think tank Theos told Premier where it went wrong for the Conservatives, explaining: «If you saw the campaign leaflets that came through my door, they had «Theresa May says «back my candidate»».

A new report from conservative think tank Migrationwatch says the government has seriously underestimated how many new migrants would arrive in Britain each year.

Matt Mayer, president of Opportunity Ohio, a conservative think tank, said government assistance going to businesses connected to JobsOhio directors «smells badly and it smacks of corporate cronyism.»

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank the Empire Center, said Cuomo still has not yet fully revealed how he's paying for the massive Thruway bridge construction project.

«The various alternative tax options all highlight how complicated and difficult to implement they would be,» said E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative Albany - area think tank, said teacher pension costs as now structured «are unsustainable in the long term, in addition to being paid for on the taxpayers» dime.»

«The IRS is highly unlikely to go along with this,» E.J. McMahon, research director of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank, said of Englebright's proposal.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank The Empire Center, says to make things even more challenging, the governor's budget office has said the state still faces a structural $ 1.7 billion deficit.

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.

EJ McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank The Empire Center, says to make things even more challenging, the governor's budget office has said the state still faces a structural $ 1.7 billion deficit.

Cuomo beginning in his 2010 campaign for governor, has defined extension of an existing tax as a new tax, says EJ McMahon, with the conservative leaning think tank the Empire Center.

E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank, said state government should be spending the money instead on the state's crumbling infrastructure, instead of on subsidized development.

«Symbolic and unimpressive,» E.J. McMahon, of the Empire Center, an Albany - based fiscally conservative think tank, said in an email.

«When you get into long - term contracts that guarantee something every year, you've really tied the hands of districts to maneuver and adjust,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany - based think tank that is fiscally conservative and has strongly supported the state's tax - cap law.

«This problem with pension costs is not just going to go away when the economy recovers,» said Andrew Biggs, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. «You've lost so much money; it's going to take a long time to catch up.»

But not everyone thinks it's the best solution to upstate's continued lagging economy.EJ McMahon, President of the fiscally conservative think tank the Empire Center, says the building of resort style casinos won't generate as many jobs as some other industries, like opening up the state's vast shale resources to hydro fracking.

«It doesn't set a very good example,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany.

«All of this stuff is classic pork,» said E.J. McMahon a fiscal analyst for the Manhattan Institute, a conservative - leaning think tank.

I didn't say that James All I did was mention in passing that it was telling that conservative think tanks produced reports on reactionary clerics and movements while Labour ones did not.

Bill Hammond, health policy director for the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank based in Albany, says, «Obamacare had certain gaps that people slipped through, I think this system would have bigger gaps.»

David Blankenhorn with national conservative think tank the Institute for American Values says that particular number comes from a lobby group, the New York Gaming Association, not independent studies, and he predicts that the opposite will occur.

E.J. McMahon, president of Empire Center, a conservative think tank, says the Thruway Authority should have increased the bridge toll in anticipation of the project.

«It's just another sad chapter in the ongoing saga of the Legislature's failure to exert any control over this ongoing waste in the name of economic development,» said E.J. McMahon, executive director of the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank.

«Why we should be subsidizing the making of commercials is a question no one has ever bothered to answer,» said E.J. McMahon of Empire Center, the fiscally conservative think tank.

Beginning in his 2010 campaign for governor, Cuomo has defined extension of an existing tax as a new tax, says E.J. McMahon, with the conservative - leaning think tank the Empire Center.

«I think the Public Authorities Control Board would be completely within reason to hit «pause» and demand further disclosure and oversight,» said Ken Girardin, communications and marketing manager at the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank.

Jones declined to estimate Silver's pension, but analysts at the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank, said it could be $ 98,010 a year.

«The entire point of charging a toll for crossing the bridge itself is to recover costs from the people who benefit from it,» said Ken Girardin of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

Former State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who is now a fellow at the Demos think tank and NYU's Wagner School, calls it «the case of the dueling commissions», and he says it's all about the governor's 2014 re-election campaign, where Cuomo is seeking a fiscally conservative platform.

EJ McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank, the Empire Center, says the trend is «significant.»

«The payroll tax idea is not nearly as simple as it sounds,» said E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

EJ McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank The Empire Center, says Cuomo still has not yet fully revealed how he's paying for the massive Thruway bridge construction project.

«The number of taxpayer - supported six - figure pensions is going to keep growing,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank that tracks state spending.

E.J.McMahon of The Empire Center, a conservative think tank, said that it is generally expected that there will be tension between a Comptroller and Governor and that it is unsurprising that Cuomo, who has a reputation for «ad hominem denunciation» over «the substantive argument,» is feuding with someone charged with monitoring him.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank Empire Center, says the recession, which began five years ago this week, has not caused the budget problems plaguing many of New York's municipalities, but has worsened already existing structural weaknesses.

But he also said his decision to fraudulently acquire and then leak a set of explosive documents from the conservative, climate skeptic think tank was prompted by sustained attacks from climate deniers.

«The conservative think tank Heartland Institute is suggesting scientists, business leaders and lawyers who are skeptical of mainstream climate science for the climate «red team» U.S. EPA boss Scott Pruitt says he wants to assemble.

«I have never seen him call someone a name to make his point,» says Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association, an organization that has about as much love for the conservative think tank AEI as the Red Sox do for the Yankees.

Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.

Fieler, a prominent social conservative who has spent big in the past to fight gay marriage, said he has directed his organization to spend $ 500,000 organizing the Common Core opposition and connecting it to his think tank's long - standing drive for school choice.

«When a Democratic secretary of education goes to the NEA and mentions merit pay explicitly as something that has to happen, the ground has shifted,» said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

Supporters, including a group of black Louisville pastors and the Bluegrass Institute, a conservative education think tank, say they would be more free to adopt innovative approaches that could help students, especially in urban areas where some schools repeatedly fail to meet goals.

Even the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy think tank that advocates school - choice, said of the amendment, «This provision will help a relative handful of affluent families who are already choosing private schools.

«We've had 150 of these events since I've been here — people like Michelle Rhee after she closed schools in D.C. and (former New York City Schools Chancellor) Joel Klein when he was very controversial,» said Rick Hess, director of education policy for the conservative think tank.