Sentences with phrase «even smaller government»

The fundamental question for the 2015 election is whether Canadians want to continue on a path to even smaller government or to change direction and halt the deterioration in government programs and services.

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The SBA, in partnership with the GSA, pulls info from SAM to populate the SBA's Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) so that government agencies — or even private sector corporations — that are interested in a service or product your business offers can search for and find your company.

Through manufacturer and government incentives, the purchasing cost has plummeted in recent years meaning it's not the upfront costly burden it once was, even for small businesses.

Even though surveys and government data both indicate that sales and profits at small businesses have improved substantially over the past five - and - a-half years, we haven't seen a rebound in entrepreneurship.

The large and accelerating rates of incorporation happened because of the weird interaction of two different populist instincts: (1) Even tax - cutting governments were reluctant to reduce personal income taxes on the top tier of income - earners, for fear of being accused of delivering «a tax cut to the richest Canadians;» (2) Just about every government from Jean Chrétien's onward was eager to cut small - business tax rates, because this seemed to be a handy spur to the plucky spirit of the theoretically job - creating mom - and - pop entrepreneurial class.

The Small Business Development Center is another government agency that basically does the same thing as SCORE but with paid employees and even more educational classes.

Small Business Administration loans offer even longer terms and lower costs than traditional term loans, as they come partially guaranteed by the U.S. government.

Yet governments in Canada continue to protect this small segment — less than one - half of one per cent of Canada's economy — even though the system significantly, and adversely, affects much larger parts of the economy.

After all, there are all sorts of unfair tax rules and abuses, including large corporations shifting income overseas to avoid Canadian taxes, the ability to deduct and split the fat pensions of government employees and even the ability for some to set up fake private companies to benefit from small business tax provisions.

For all those reasons, it is a remarkable failure not only that Canada's mining machinery industry remains underdeveloped, capable of meeting only a small portion of the mining industry's needs in Canada (let alone globally)-- but, worse yet, that Canadian governments haven't even seriously thought about how to translate our growing resource extraction industry into a larger domestic mining machinery capbility. We've never seriously tried to make those connections. Which explains why the vast majority of the sophisticated, expensive, high - tech equipment used in our mines is imported.Â

You can also gather support from family, friends, partner, and even government programs who are designed to fund and support small businesses.

While getting approved for a conventional mortgage may be out of reach, government - sponsored programs like FHA loans and VA loans for veterans help people buy homes even with poor credit and smaller down payments.

Such tight spreads mean that even a small selloff can wipe out credit's extra income over government bonds.

I find it amazing when when a small group of people can control the entire country and remove things that have existed for decades atheists sue the government over everything even our money get over it

The federal government now swept past all the barriers that once had put up resistance — as in extending controls on local schools or bringing under the review of federal courts the decisions made on hiring and firing in private businesses, even small colleges.

There is a disconnect between conservative notions of «small government» and the «thou shalt not» social agenda of the religious right, which is why the Libertarians gained even the small amount of traction they did.

The government often serves as the mediator in this transaction by taxing the rich, and then running the money through a vast array of bureaucracies until eventually, a small portion of what was given finally makes it to the nameless masses of poor people, many of whom do not even need the aid, are taking advantage of the system, or could otherwise work but choose not to.

Please don't think I'm going all Porcher on you: But the argument that America has in some ways become too oligarchic is nontrivial (even THE WALL STREET JOURNAL is starting to notice a bit), and it's not that clear that smaller government or lower taxes by themselves will grow jobs for our increasingly pathological middle / lower middle class.

R&D projects can receive even greater support, with the government offering up to 70 % to small companies involved in certain types of research.

It's as if... a small group of ultra-rich people... have a disproportionate effect on how... aaaaah, my brain... government can help them stay ultra-rich even in matters that don't affect the... aaaaagggh it burns, help... general population, just by virtue of having powerful friends in... AAGGGH I CAN SEE THROUGH TIME... Congress?

Only after this bit of government idiocy, we will need far more than a band - aid - not even a tourniquet could stop the bleeding - out of our ma and pa shops, small businesses, and anyone else that creates, produces or sells anything child - related.

The most shocking defeat of Cameron's premiership so far came on a hot summer evening late last August, when the Commons won a small slice of constitutional power by defeating the government.

Surely they could do more damage to the government and further their own policies more by going to Westminster, even if it is quite a small minority.

«If a relatively small petition that has not even been considered by the Petitions Committee can overturn government policy that was determined after full and comprehensive consultation, and consideration of research findings on a complex issue, then we are concerned for the future direction of policy determination.»

Some mechanisms help on the margin, but each with its draw backs, like representative Democracy, small government, pre requisite for voting, electoral college, separation of power, or even the right to bear arm,...

Except for a small — but notable — group of outliers, local governments and school districts are not providing clear or comprehensive or even the most basic information on their websites.

I find it astonishing if you think about the talent you've got around that shadow cabinet table, even around that small circle of people who came out of the last government together — Miliband, Balls, Burnham, Yvette Cooper, I'm not Douglas» biggest fan but you can include him in that list.

We created thousands of jobs, with employees paying P.A.Y.E taxes to government and the sector impacted other industries - media and entertainment; advertising and public relations; professional practices; small and medium enterprises (even micro enterprises); and telecommunications enhanced overall economic productivity.

The timing has no impact on the functionality of government, even if the tardiness puts a small asterisk next to a talking point that has become a hallmark of Governor Andrew Cuomo's time in office.

Even if he'd won with a smaller majority that would have amounted to a weaker government.)

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

This year's # 450m grant offered to councils that freeze their council tax is central government interference in even that small slice of the pie.

First, because it would be embarrassing for an anti-autonomy government if even a small number of non-residents of the upstart region supported the claim.

Personal income taxes on the other hand is the largest source of revenue for the government so even small changes have a significant impact.

But the group has since the government's renewed fight against illegal mining in the country, expressed its dissatisfaction, particularly on the basis that even those operating with requisite licence have been boxed together with the illegal ones It has been demanding that government draws the line between illegal small scale miners and legitimate small scale miners with licence.

But the past year has seen a repeat of the drama and turmoil of the Major years: a rancorous party split over Europe within months of victory and a slim commons majority making the government vulnerable to defeats by opposition ambushes and even small backbench rebellions.

Even if, as many Tories expect, a confidence vote does not materialise, the Bridgen / Dorries comments are a reminder of how maverick, hardline Eurosceptics were able to play havoc with John Major's government in the 1990s because he had such a small majority.

Now, even the fiscally conservative small business lobby, the National Federation of Independent Business, has joined progressive groups, unions and local government leaders, and come out against the plan.

The Government's small business loan guarantee scheme will not even be up and running until mid-January and even then it will not cover 99 per cent.

New government figures show that the state lost a thousand small farms last year, even as the number of larger operations increased.

Even if the Tories are the largest party with the most number of seats and will therefore have the first chance to form a government, she will find it difficult to go into coalition with a smaller party like the Liberal Democrats, who are fundamentally opposed to Brexit.

Sovereign states can voluntarily delegate some or even all of their powers to either smaller areas (devolution and local government) or larger areas (international treaties and unions).

The tradition in the United Kingdom appears to be that single party government is the norm, even when a general election leads to a hung Parliament, and that the largest single party, rather than participate in a coalition government, usually forms its own ministry, supported tacitly or openly by one of the smaller parties.

All is not lost though, as comparative researchby Akash Paun and Robyn Munro shows, smaller parties are less likely to be punished in a coalition if it lasts the distance and, while they may have little control over whether they stay in government or not, the post election arithmetic may mean that Nick Clegg is still the kingmaker in a hung parliament, even if the party is decimated at the next election.

Now even the fiscally conservative small business lobby, the National Federation of Independent Business, has joined progressive groups, unions and local government leaders that are coming out against the plan.

The county legislature and the local and state government have to plan ahead and look five years or even ten years ahead, see what we want this area to look like and work to get to that point, so the people of that area and Ulster County have a quality of life that families would want to stay in the area, small local businesses will prosper and tourists would want to visit for many years.

In the past decade, DIYers (working either in small teams or collectively, via crowdsourcing) have made major contributions to fields like genetics, robotics, proteomics, autonomous vehicles, even space exploration — fields that were once the sole province of large corporations, universities, and governments.

Yet when an Italian commission was convened to assess the situation, one commission member — an engineer and government official — reassured residents that the small quakes were normal or even eased seismic strain.

And in Kibera, even though the number of government schools is too small to make statistical comparisons meaningful, 74 percent of teachers were teaching in private schools when our researchers visited them, and only one teacher was absent.

For example, the federal government allocates $ 2.1 billion to Title II Part A for teacher training, development, and salaries.14 The 5 percent set - aside provides an estimated $ 4.7 million for a large state such as Florida, $ 1.1 million for midsized Oregon, and $ 500,000 for a small state such as Maine.15 Even in the smallest states, the set - aside is enough to fund a small team to develop and implement important teacher pipeline reforms.