Sentences with phrase «increase local government spending»

Sports events, they argue, increase local government spending on public safety and traffic control.

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Those who want to curb the century - old SALT deduction argue it only motivates local governments to seek more tax increases and spend more money.

They blame this increase in spending on local government compensation for municipal employees which they claim is significantly higher than for comparable jobs in the private sector.

In this regard, the National Housing Task Force recommends that increased federal spending for housing be allocated through a program of entitlements to states and localities based on need as well as through a program of matching funds based on the willingness of local governments, businesses and nonprofits to provide land and financing.

He pledged to veto all unfunded mandates on local governments if he's elected, and also nix any bill — be it Democrat or Republican — that increases spending and throws the budget out of balance.

Sir Merrick Cockell, the Conservative chair of the Local Government Association, said in July spending cuts and increased demand for services would lead to a funding shortfall of # 14.4 billion by 2020.

Azzopardi said Cuomo has signed a property tax cap, approved a law to encourage local governments to stay within the cap and increased state spending at a slower rate than recent predecessors.

Despite capping cost increases in recent years, local governments in New York spend more on Medicaid than localities in the other 49 states combined.

As shown in Figure 3, for more than two decades Medicaid spending in New York and nationwide rose at a pace well above the general cost indicator for state and local governments; the near doubling of the price index between 1991 and 2011 was more than matched by the greater than quadrupling of national Medicaid costs and an approximately 350 percent increase in New York's Medicaid expenses.7 (The more rapid growth in other states likely reflected their expansion of eligibility, which New York had already implemented.)

The SALT cap also will increase the effective cost of State and local government services at the margin; each new dollar of State and local government spending will cost New York taxpayers more than under previous federal law.

And on the local level, where municipal governments in New York are gearing up to make spending plans with a 2 percent cap on increasing property taxes, the fiscal outlook is worsening.Year - over-year local tax revenue declined an average 1.7 percent over the last four fiscal quarters.

The 191 - page plan (again with very wide margins) is mostly a series of broad proposals — cutting spending through a property tax cap and local government consolidation, vetoing state tax increases -LRB-!)

«This new law limits property tax increases to two percent and it gives you the power to control spending of your local government,» Cuomo says in the spot.

«By reining in excessive property tax costs and building on accomplishments achieved over the past six years, our efforts to reduce wasteful spending and increase public involvement in local government with these shared services plans will lessen the tax burden for residents and ensure New York remains the greatest state in the nation.»

Cuomo has called for increased control over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is pushing local governments within the MTA's service area to spend more on transit in the area, including New York City.

Under Cuomo's plan, local governments and school districts would be allowed to increase spending up to the current tax cap limit of two percent a year.

This new law limits property tax increases to two percent and it gives you the power to control spending of your local government.

The WFP, which is closely aligned with the radical group ACORN, is composed of a variety of public employee unions and special interest organizations that oppose fiscal reform in state and local government and promote increasing spending, raising taxes, and expanding debt to bloat the public workforce.

Cuomo has argued that the proliferation of local governments was responsible for the increase in costs, but localities counter that it is state - mandated programming — like Medicaid and early childhood special education — that drives up their spending.

The measure would make the state - imposed 2 percent spending cap on increases permanent and have schools and local governments work with the state for long - term savings and cuts.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

While neither of those things will actually happen, there is increasing danger of a compromise whereby the federal government continues to disburse billions of dollars to local schools but plays no meaningful role in determining how — or how well — that money is spent.