Sentences with phrase «for wealthy corporations»

They mostly work for wealthy corporations, governments and people.

billion per year in tax breaks for wealthy corporations and still have enough money left to fully fund our schools and lower class sizes.

It is a tax cut for wealthy corporations,» Cuomo said.

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And while public dissatisfaction with the legislation has been focused on the notion that the Republican tax cuts are deeply skewed toward the wealthiest Americans and the corporations they run, Barkan, who has spent years galvanizing support for a more diverse and inclusive Federal Reserve, wants to remind Americans this legislation also includes cuts to their healthcare.

Trump's plan to cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy would leave companies and the rich more funds to spend on investments.

The tax bill lowers the corporate tax rate from 35 % to 21 %, eliminates the penalty under the Affordable Care Act for failing to have health insurance, a narrower estate tax, and cuts the top effective marginal tax rate for S corporations to a top rate of 29.6 percent, among other measures that gives the biggest breaks to the wealthiest individuals and companies.

Democrats argue that the plan does too much to help wealthy individuals and corporations and does not provide enough relief for the middle class.

«We are changing the rules for three per cent of private corporations, because the wealthiest Canadians should not be able to use private corporations to pay less tax than the middle class,» Morneau said.

In order to get the broadest exposure for Lucara's record - setting find, the diamond corporation has been working with Sotheby's and Julius Baer, a Swiss bank that has many wealthy private clients around the world, according to the Times.

The House bill slashes tax rates for large corporations, small businesses, and wealthy Americans, while sharply reducing or eliminating tax breaks that benefit many middle - class Americans such as deductions for state and local taxes, college tuition and home mortgage interest.

Democrats claim the Republican tax changes are little more than a giveaway for corporations and the wealthy.

Amazon's faux competition will lure one otherwise enviable place into handing over a huge amount of its taxpayers» money to a fabulously wealthy corporation for something that place could have gotten for free.

First, he accomplished most of what he actually wanted to accomplish in the position — namely, massive tax cuts for corporations and wealthy Americans (such as Cohn, a former top executive at Goldman Sachs).

It and other dark money groups can serve as conduits for anonymous donations from corporations and other wealthy special interests to flood elections, making it particularly dangerous to democracy.

When did the Pope call for nationalization of the assets of corporations, or seizing the assets of the wealthy?

I know that your personal faith acts as ones own personal moral and spiritual compass, however the president should through out his personal beliefs in exchange for the betterment of all americans citizens not the 2 % of the wealthy class or the corporations, but all americans

For the first time in a long time Catholics have a Pope they can really be proud of, a true Priest and not just the CEO of one of the wealthiest corporations in the world.

Consider, for example, the two tax exemptions for capital gains which benefit wealthy people and large corporations.

I must say I find some of Ryan's writing disingenuous, most notably his claim that his budget «reforms welfare for those who need it,» including the poor and the sick, while it «ends welfare for those who don't — entrenched corporations, the wealthiest Americans.»

About half my monthly disability goes for rent on a 12 x 20 efficiency apartment... I am frightened, in the light of what's going on politically, that I will be cut off, even though I paid in my entire working life, so that some wealthy Floridian, or corporation - they're people now, thanks, Supreme Court - can have a tax cut.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

«From taxing the wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs to ending unnecessary subsidies to big corporations and investing in our CUNY system, Bill will be an ally for working families in City Hall.

Capitalism has worked as well as it has for the less well off precisely because of effective regulations and laws that prevent corporations and the wealthy from excessively tipping the rules of the game in their own favor.

Word of the Week: «Consistent» How Mayor Bill de Blasio described Republican priorities: «A consistent effort to cut support for working people, and use those resources to give tax cuts to the wealthy and to corporations.»

Nixon went on to criticize inequality in the state, which she blamed on policy choices like tax cuts for corporations and wealthier New Yorkers, and called out corruption in state government.

We need a champion for a tax policy that puts hardworking families first, not Paul Ryan's giveaway to big corporations and the wealthiest Americans.

NYC Public Advocate Tish James slammed Cuomo's $ 2 billion tax cut plan for favoring «corporations and the wealthy.»

«Unfortunately, the Tea Party - controlled Republican Congress is making every effort to turn back the clock on decades of labor achievements in favor of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest one percent of Americans.

«We can raise hundreds of billions of dollars by closing corporate tax loopholes and assuring that the rich pay their fair share, so that big corporations and the wealthy take responsibility for contributing to building strong communities,» the party's draft platform says.

The party is unlikely to accept a # 5,000 cap on donations because it is so reliant on wealthy individuals and corporations for its funding.

And if our own congressmen won't defend New York and instead bow down to the hard right wing paymasters who just want tax breaks for the wealthiest people and the wealthiest corporations.

De Blasio said passing the mansion tax would «even up the score» for wealthy people and big corporations likely to get a tax break courtesy of President Trump and congressional Republicans.

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

Following the ballot delivery, Obama for America New York State Director Robert Diamond said, «The election in November represents a clear choice for the American people, between continuing the progress the Obama Administration has begun creating jobs and restoring economic security for hard working Americans or the Republican candidates who continue to fight to protect tax breaks for only the wealthiest corporations and individuals, and propose returning to the same failed policies that created the current economic recession in the first place.

One question focused on possible reasons to vote for «Woodstock,» citing reasons like fighting to improve the economy by taking on big businesses and monopolies, pushing for campaign finance reform, increasing education funding, changing the tax code to require the wealthy and large corporations to pay more and raising the minimum wage.

«When Poor and Working Class New Yorkers are struggling to attend SUNY schools because of rising tuition, I find it insulting that Governor Cuomo would propose a plan that gives tax breaks to wealthy corporations simply for their proximity to a SUNY campus.

Murphy, a Democrat, doubled down on his call for a millionaires tax during a dinner speech following the 81st annual Walk to Washington, arguing tax hikes on the wealthiest residents and largest corporations could pay for crucial investments in infrastructure and education.

Even while they've been able to find billions of pounds to cut taxes for the richest corporations, to cut capital gains tax for the super-rich elite and to scrap the 50 % rate for the richest too, and found billions more to cut inheritance tax on the wealthiest estates and to slash the bank levy.

The U.S. Senate tax bill offers a huge tax cut for corporations, lower rates for the wealthy, and a big victory for Republicans and the White House.

«In federal and many state and local elections, and even elections for state courts, extraordinarily wealthy individuals and powerful corporations exercise vastly outsized influence,» the donors write in the letter.

«Films can do many things, they can entertain, terrify, they can make us laugh and tell us something about the real world we live in - sorry it's early for a political speech - and in that real world it's getting darker and in the struggle that is coming between rich and poor and the wealthy and the privileged and the big corporations and politicians who speak for them.»

Critics say the tax bill looms like a «dagger» over New York City — particularly the real estate industry — reducing breaks that many in the region heavily lean on, despite cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

We will uncover persons of goodwill including former students, self - made wealthy hands, and we will aggressively compete for endowment money yearly, engage in direct solicitations, promote fundraising events, and undertake international visits to private citizens of Nigeria nativity, African American backgrounds, wealthy persons and corporations across the globe.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said «Establishment Republicans» want to hike taxes for the middle class to extend cuts to the wealthy and large corporations.

Republicans are so devoted to providing tax giveaways to the wealthy and big corporations, that they go searching for pay fors in the pockets of the middle class.

The problem is, it's not socialism for the people; it's socialism for the extremely wealthy big businessmen and corporations.

«Apparently giving a massive tax cut to corporations and the wealthy wasn't enough for the GOP.

The president contends the law will spur the economy with big tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.

Cuomo has been trying to mend fences with unions and other liberals upset with his tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

That law placed sharp limits on state and local tax deductions to help replenish federal government coffers depleted by massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.