Sentences with phrase «gets big contributions»

The Doe Fund, a nonprofit that backed Mayor Bloomberg's successful push to extend term limits, regularly gets big contributions from the mayor, at least $ 10 million of which came after the term limits hearings.

Two hopefuls top the list of House candidates who have gotten their biggest contributions this cycle from the securities and investment industries, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reports.

Not exact matches

So naturally I'm envious that Ken Masugi and John Presnall made major contributions to BIG BANG STUDIES before I could get around to posting on the show.

O'Connor's big contribution to constitutional interpretation, I've concluded, is try to bolster bad precedents because people have gotten used to them.

They are getting contributions from numerous members of the Team and are as big as any other group in the League.

Apart from Wilshere, there are other players that have never got any major trophy or create very minimal contribution in each match, but have big price tag and often show up in news.

The Patriots knew to expect big things from him this season, but have got a significant boost from the contributions of his two brothers.

Dan: Yeah, because it has such a big contribution to other developmental things later on in life, that the earlier they get to it, the better.

State comptroller DiNapoli can make a big contribution by making the Public Authorities «PARIS» database actually useful to the public and journalists, and continuing to push to get state payments put online.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

But then, he's got bigger troubles: He's awaiting trial on separate corruption charges in Manhattan federal court, where he's charged with illegally using a nonprofit group — one that he had supported with taxpayer contributions as a City Council member — in his political campaigns.

«That's why you have big campaign contributions and you get the temptation for the people within government to take advantage of their positions of power.»

In fact, it was a big contribution by Bloomberg that was used to hire a veteran Queens GOP operative and longtime political volunteer for the mayor, John Haggerty, that got the Indys in trouble with the Manhattan DA.

The Transport Workers Union requested a state attorney general's probe into the connection between big bucks contributions de Blasio got from animal rights activists and his legislative push to ban or reduce the industry.

Espada, who heads the Senate's housing committee, gets a big chunk of his campaign contributions from landlords and real estate groups.

If your income is below a certain point, make sure you take advantage of the Saver's Credit to get an even bigger tax savings for your IRA contributions.

At the beginning additional contributions would probably have a bigger effect when your whole portfolio gets cheaper.

For instance, if you make regular contributions in the first half of the year, but then find yourself unemployed in the last half, you may wish to defer taking the deduction for those contributions until you're back up to speed; or where you work one job and make contributions but then get a big raise towards the end of the year or early in the next.

A: Yes, but when you determine how much of your conversion distribution is taxable, you're required to treat all your traditional IRAs as if they were one big IRA, so you don't get any advantage if you take the distribution out of the IRA that has the most nondeductible contributions.

If you suddenly increase your contributions, or try to transfer your assets to another person, business, or trust just before filing for bankruptcy protection, you will get into big trouble — and your assets may not be protected after all.

But pretty big changes in itemized deductions too, as the mortgage interest, they'll keep that, the charitable contributions, they'll keep that, but get rid of everything else.

Sure, if you start an HSA tomorrow and you have only contributed a couple hundred dollars into the account so far and you get hit with a big medical bill then you will have to come out of pocket for your deductible amount but once you have maxed out your HSA contribution for a year or two then you are essentially home free with potentially no additional out of pocket costs even for large medical bills!

She adds that reducing RRSP contributions in a year that you are on leave may also be something to consider, as you may get bigger tax savings by making them in a year when your income is higher.

(To get your bigger TFSA working for you now, download the September / October issue of MoneySense magazine) He has been generally hostile to the idea of a mandatory enhancement to the CPP, but with an election looming Harper said in May he'd explore the idea of allowing Canadians to voluntarily make additional CPP contributions in return for higher payouts.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still a big fan of Roth IRAs and I still think that the Roth IRA conversion is a great tool, especially for people whose incomes are too high to make regular Roth contributions.

You must be getting close to surpassing your typical contributions for December which will be a big milestone.

Here's the biggest reason why: Your tax bracket is most always higher when you're working and making contributions, so this helps a lot (because the higher your tax bracket when you make deductible contributions, the more you'll get back immediately in tax savings per dollar of contributions).

The biggest downside is also the reason for Roth IRAs» biggest strength — you don't get to deduct contributions from your income during tax season.

As my RSP gets bigger with future contributions, I figure that my Real Return Bonds will some day eventually get down to 5 %.

If someone who makes good money has a disabled child they can get some big grants which is fine, but what about lower income families who can't save easily for a contribution?

But once you get up to 20 % or 25 % more, you'll have to make significant changes in other parts of your life, such as suspending contributions to retirement plans and college funds, or giving up vacations or other big - ticket items.

And if you live in one of the states that offers a state income tax break for contributions, you can potentially afford to make a bigger contribution without affecting your monthly budget, allowing you to get an even bigger head start.

This is a big site I've got going here and to keep the content new and interesting, I need contributions from fellow travellers!

They have always said that the ships you get now are supporting the game development and as a thank you for your contribution you get to keep them and if they go down the route of renting ships I don't care just because you went out and got a bigger ship don't mean your going to win.

WHAT was touted as Australia's biggest contribution to developing clean coal technology for use around the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions has been scrapped even before it got to first base.

If based on a defined contribution model, there is a big risk during a downturn of not getting the returns would would want.

Well, your 401 (k) account is very much like a snowball, but if you receive matching contributions then your snowball starts out big and only gets bigger.

You're just a talented, experienced candidate ready and eager for the right opportunity at the right company to get stuck in and make your biggest contribution yet.

That's because they get a sense of their own worth from learning about responsibility and understanding what a big contribution they make to family life.

«Once REALTORS ® get on the RPAC ladder, they come to understand more about its importance, and they quickly move up to another level and start making bigger contributions,» says R. Layne Morrill, 2001 fund - raising chair and 1998 NAR president.

«The biggest secular trend we're dealing with is one that started in the mid 1990s and that is defined benefit and defined contribution plans looking at real estate,» he said «That isn't changing and REITs are still the best way to get money into real estate.