Sentences with phrase «high government people»

Unless you know someone in the country who is able to get delivery of the stuff your contributions are either wasted or goes to high government people who don't need it.

Not exact matches

The federal government has housed condemned inmates since 1999 at a high - security institution in Terre Haute, a town of some 60,000 people in western Indiana.

In my NYT bestselling book, Killing Sacred Cows, I warn people of the 15 major problems of the 401 (k), including: you're not the owner but only the beneficiary of your 401 (k), the government can change the rules at any time, you can't get to the money until 59 1/2, and the fees are typically much higher than most investments out there because you've added complexity and layers of administration and legal fees.

During the most recent 3 - day government shutdown my Facebook feed had several requests seeking help renewing passports, proving two points — there is a high demand as renewals are up and most people wait until the last minute to handle it.

In 1969, government officials noticed that 155 people with high incomes were legally using so many deductions and other tax breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxes.

They will target the website and the high - profile people in [Olympic organizers, the organizing country or Olympic sponsors]... targeting high - ranking officials in government or media or sporting organizations, and they're going to use this platform in order to protest corruption or political corruption.»

For some people, it may make sense to draw on 401 (k) assets earlier and defer claiming Social Security benefits until 65 or 70 in order to get much higher benefits from the government plan.

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

«He's a guy who thinks at the highest levels — about government, about macroeconomic issues, about geopolitical issues and about what's happening in our industry,» says Colleen Johnston, TD's chief financial officer, adding, «Despite all he's achieved, he's also a guy who can put himself in other people's shoes and think like a normal person.»

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and other high - ranking current or former U.S. government officials have visited or praised Gülen - related persons and entities.

For instance, it's unclear how preserving guaranteed insurance eligibility for people with pre-existing medical conditions can work without the unpopular coverage mandate (since people could then just buy insurance when they get sick, bankrupting insurers), or how governments would fund historically pricey «high - risk pools» for the sickest Americans.

Because of my high profile over the past few years, the government officials, the rich people, have not liked to interact with me.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

To help young people get the first, critical work experience they need, our Government will focus investment to support internships in high - demand fields and in small and medium - sized businesses.

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

But with the average age of public administration directors much higher than most professions, you're best bet to get one of these jobs will be to wait for your boss to retire or annoy the wrong person in the government of the day.

In many mid-sized cities the «not for profit» NPR affiliate is the glitziest radio / TV studio in town, with the highest salaries — all subsidized with government funds expropriated from the people.

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

The B.C. government filed a reference case to the province's highest court to prove their jurisdiction to protect local people from diluted bitumen.

Second of all, the reason that the government set an income cut - off to Roth IRA eligibility and also set a low annual contribution limit is because the Roth IRA is intended to help regular people build wealth, rather than allow high - income people to stash away tons of money and avoid taxes.

Dampening the impact of these developments were significantly higher transfer payments (excluding major transfers to persons and other levels of government), most notably for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.

His experience includes four years with HB Global Advisors Corporation, the international consulting firm of Heenan Blaikie LLP (2010 to 2013), and almost four decades with the Government of Canada where he served in a number of key diplomatic posts, including Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (2001 to 2005), Ambassador to Japan (2005 to 2008) and High Commissioner to the Republic of India (2008 to 2010).

Cruz proposed allowing plans that did not comply with Obamacare's rules back on the market, allowing healthier people to buy those lower - cost plans, and the federal government could pick up the tab for people with higher costs as premiums for Obamacare plans rose:

For western governments, «They basically have people from the local embassies go, they don't send the high - level delegations.

Our government supports collaborative medical innovators, whose work leads to employment opportunities for thousands of people, opens up new opportunities in the global marketplace for our home - grown companies and helps people across our province receive the highest modern standards of patient care.»

The government claims there is no evidence to suggest that people of higher income disproportionately benefit and that the higher contribution limit will benefit all Canadians, especially those earning less than $ 60,000.

In a country where the unemployment rate is at a 20 - year low and industrial output is approaching historical highs, fueling inflation concerns, a 10 - year government bond yield of 1.5 % is totally inappropriate and will naturally spur people to buy real estate.

Second, IFSD forecasts a much higher level of direct program expenses (total expenses excluding major transfers to persons and other levels of government).

People generally don't like paying taxes but do enjoy receiving high quality government services.

Libertarian populism seeks to reverse that impression by arguing that higher taxes, greater regulation, and big government generally work on behalf of the politically connected and against the average person.

Perhaps, but people who fly planes into buildings are supported by theocratic governments, and there are high - profile politicians among us who are promoting the path to theocratic government.

In Australia, the state governments control most planning and have discouraged suburban growth» to the benefit, Kotkin notes, of developers (and presumably of the politicians whose campaigns they support) and the detriment of middle - class people, who now face some of the world's highest housing prices.

In response, the Refugee Council said: «With the number of refugees at a record high, we urge the Government to go further and commit to resettling people from around the world, at least at current numbers, for as long as it is needed.»

Whether it was serving on student government or representing my high school classmates on the city school board, I was used to leading people.

In these cultural circumstances, people in high places in both the government and Church see that, with an imperial outlook of her own, Orthodoxy might be able to fill the vacuum left by the defunct Communist Party in the system of post-Soviet administration.

Government Dependency (47 %) defined as the percentage of persons receiving one or more federal benefit payments: highest in American history

The Pew Research Center found that in 2012, 3 out of 4 people worldwide lived in a country with high levels of social hostilities involving religion, compared with 64 percent of people who lived with high levels of government restrictions on religion.

too many people (like greg and lindsey here) that have never had a high school government course, or who slept through it, or who were not listening.

The people that take a stand for a secular government are trying to keep our country up to the high standards established by our Founding Fathers.

A government that retains the power to create money can supply the people with needed services without such high taxes.

Also, a government that can not create money can not provide the services people need without either high taxes or borrowing.

Paying higher taxes may provide the government with funding to aid seniors, impoverished persons, and military contractors.

To get some idea of the overriding scope of the government's role in the economy, consider what has happened to taxes: back in 1885, taxes levied by Washington came to $ 1.98 per person; by 1970, the figure was $ 960.07 — 500 times higher.

I think our government is a good example that the people in the highest positions are not necessarily the most hard - working or competent.

To separate government from the reality of religion — from that which speaks to the deepest and highest and most commanding ways of understanding what is really real — is to separate government from the people who are the source of its legitimacy.

This is Life 101, something all people learn as kids — until they grow up to be a high - level government official who has to choose between one six - figure job near her kids and one far away, and can't accept life's inherent limitations.»

Remember, most people (including our own government) holds religion higher than «The laws of Man.»

It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

It would require some rethinking of retail and manufacture logistics and a good deal of government agency red - tape cutting, but an efficient protocol enabling more products recalled due to allergen mislabeling to be mended — designated as containing the said allergen — and made eligible for donation to food banks, would mean these products could serve the higher purpose of feeding people.