Sentences with phrase «hurts middle class»

«My job is to raise issues that need to be raised,» he said, such as a regressive tax structure that hurts the middle class, and unfair education reform policies.

The current mayor, Bill de Blasio, has said that he favors a tax on millionaires and has argued that congestion pricing hurts the middle class and poor who live outside Manhattan and drive into it.

«The people of New York want jobs, not a partisan, all - repeal agenda from Congressman Michael Grimm that hurts the middle class,» said the DCCC's Emily Bittner.

In fact, she sold hardworking Upstate families out by voting for the disastrous GOP healthcare bill that hurts the middle class and imposes a devastating «Age Tax.»

The government had pitched the changes as a way to prevent wealthy Canadians from gaining an unfair advantage and paying less tax, but small businesses said the changes hurt the middle class.

good for her... still doesn't change the policies of the GOP that hurt the middle class, women, minorities, gays, working class, students, the elderly, the poor, the sick.

«Now Mr. Malpass is spending this fortune to buy a Senate seat and return to the George Bush economic policies that benefit only the powerful special interests and hurt middle class New Yorkers.»

The America Votes State Battles Fund will oppose state legislation, ballot measures and executive orders that cut jobs, hurt the middle class and state economies.»

I'm sick and tired of suburban politicians citing «hurting the middle class» as their mantra against good policy that actually helps the middle and working class — i.e. those who commute by another other means than driving in the Central Business District (and somehow afford to park!)

«When they say «Trust us, it's not going to hurt the middle class,» well, the opposite happens.»

They painted the long - haired Mills, whose family owns a successful chain of sporting goods and farm equipment stores in the Midwest, as a trust - fund brat out to protect the rich and hurt the middle class.

After continuing the discussion on campaign finance, Williams said the concentration of power among the wealthy has allowed them to make policies that hurt the middle class.

With local stories pouring in each day of the very real ways the Tea Party shutdown is hurting the middle class, it's time Republicans in Congress come to grips with reality that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, that it was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, and that it's working.»

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is spending heavily to try and paint Mills as an out - of - touch rich guy who is out to hurt the middle class.

President Donald Trump dismissed Democratic leaders» assertions that the Republican tax reform proposal will hurt the middle class as «their standard» line in an interview that aired on Fox News today.

Crowley tweeted a photo after the meeting, which he called an important discussion of the House Republican tax plan and how the elimination of state and local income tax deduction will hurt middle class families across New York.

It will take time to reverse years of cuts that have diminished our public schools and hurt middle class families.

By threatening the value of the largest asset held by most Americans, these changes will hurt the middle class by lowering household wealth.

Not exact matches

If applied today, revenue neutrality would inevitably hurt the middle - class by forcing curtailment of tax breaks, he said.

«Middle - class Americans itemizing their deductions may actually get hurt by tax reform.»

It would certainly hurt the daily life of American middle - class people, and the American companies, and the financial markets.»

The middle and lower classes have been squeezed, which hurts mid-range golf courses and those in sparsely populated areas.

The usual form of that criticism emanating from both sides of the debate is that free trade deals between the U.S. and poorer countries hurt the American middle class while contributing to worker exploitation abroad.

Having a flat tax past a minimum income doesn't hurt the poor, helps the middle class, and removes incentives for loopholes or the very rich.

The Christian artist who wraps himself in sunbeams and daffodils fails to be Christian at all, producing a bloodless, lifeless art that pleases a middle - class consumerism, not an authentic Christian encounter with a hurting world.

Second, immigration policy, if it is not coupled with a wider agenda, has a chance to hurt the Republicans among middle and working - class voters if they aren't careful.

We've done so because the people at the top prefer a permissive atmosphere that allows us to do as we wish» as long as we don't hurt anyone, a judgment call that ends up ruling out things upper - middle - class people don't like, such as smoking and putting glass bottles in plastics - only recycling bins.

Kerryon Johnson of Auburn put up 11 reps, likely hurting his stock a bit as a middle of the pack prospect among the talented running back class.

The people MOST hurt are the middle class downstate.

So the con - dem - nation administration, will raise the income tax threshold, disproportionately benefiting the middle class, only to be paid for by a VAT increase, which disproportionately hurts the low paid.

This tax reform plan hurts the country's poor, working and middle - class families and will have a devastatingly negative economic impact on the twelve states targeted by Washington.»

Browning criticized Zeldin for supporting the Republican tax reform plan, which she said would hurt middle - class Long Island families because it would scrap the deductibility of state and local taxes.

City Comptroller and mayoral candidate William Thompson made a campaign stop at a Jackson Heights restaurant Saturday, where he criticized Mayor Michael Bloomberg for making budget cuts that hurt middle - class New Yorkers.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer teamed up Monday to denounce a tax overhaul proposal from Republicans in Washington that they say would hurt middle - class homeowners.

De Blasio and Murphy vowed to work together to rally against the GOP's massive federal tax overhaul that calls for the elimination of popular tax deductions — such as state and local property tax costs and student loan interest payments — which they argue will hurt middle - class taxpayers.

There aren't any Nick but there are plenty of studies that show they do hurt Middle and Working Class families and the small businesses that help or service them.

They warned that cuts to either program would hurt middle - class Americans.

«Taking decent paying, middle class jobs with benefits away from experienced, dedicated, and caring state employees and replacing them with private, not - for - profit companies who fail to pay their direct care workers a decent wage hurts local economies and the quality of life for all New Yorkers, not just those receiving care,» CSEA's testimony stated.

With Fair Share Tax Reform, which would raise taxes on only the wealthiest New Yorkers making more than $ 250,000 a year, we can ensure all New Yorkers share in the sacrifice while preventing the need to make the most severe cuts that would disproportionately hurt working and middle - class families.»

«This is a terrible idea that will hurt middle - class homeowners in the Hudson Valley to benefit wealthy and well - connected insiders,» Maloney says.

«Communities across this district are continuing to embrace Rep. Maffei's common sense approach and reject John Katko's reckless and out of touch agenda that raises taxes on hardworking middle class families, ends the Medicare guarantee forcing seniors to pay thousands more out of pocket for healthcare, and hurts women,» Miller said.

«Communities across this district are continuing to embrace Rep. Maffei's common sense approach and reject John Katko's reckless and out of touch agenda that raises taxes on hardworking middle class families, ends the Medicare guarantee forcing seniors to pay thousands more out of pocket for healthcare, and hurts women.»

Cuomo's budget office estimates that the provision will hurt 1.7 million middle class to wealthy homeowners in New York who pay much more than $ 10,000 annually — 46 percent of all homeowners statewide itemize deductions — as well as reduce property values because of the eroded tax shelter of homeownership.

«Eliminating the state and local deduction, while slashing taxes for the wealthy and huge corporations, will hurt middle - class taxpayers, and various attempts at a «compromise» are just as bad,» Schumer said.

«The country is in real peril,» cautioned Canada, who cited research that indicates the nation's failing public education system is hurting a wide swath of middle - class families.

Critics of opt - out contend that test refusals happen mainly in middle - class and wealthy areas, hurting high - need schools by making it more difficult to measure the achievement gap.

He also finds it particularly interesting that Common Core foes say they want high - quality education for all children, yet fail to consider that their opposition to the standards hurts poor and minority kids as well as middle class white and Asian children in suburbia, both of which have few options — including vouchers and charter schools — to which they can avail in order to get high - quality education.

His cuts have hurt middle - class and poor schools across the state, but despite the crisis, the Philadelphia school district has attracted a new generation of middle - class families eschewing the suburbs for city life — a diverse constituency that state politicians will find it far more difficult to ignore, at least in the long term.

And we've found, across the public sector, that outsourcing services often sets off a downward spiral in which lower worker wages and benefits can hurt local economies and destabilize middle and working class communities.

«We just worry that if that complacency builds or expands, it's both going to hurt the pocketbooks of the upper middle - class and the wealthy, and it also impedes greater efforts to improve student preparation.»