Sentences with phrase «fights over taxation»

After fights over taxation to fund pre-kindergarten programs last year, de Blasio is preparing to be more of a presence on Cuomo's turf in the final five weeks of the legislative session.

Not exact matches

After years of fighting a losing battle against the state of New York over the taxation of name - brand cigarettes sold on reservations, many of the state's eight federally recognized Indian tribes are now manufacturing their own smokes.

Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).

Armed groups finance themselves through the illicit conflict mineral trade and fight over control of mines and taxation points inside Congo.