Sentences with phrase «increase taxes all day»

But in other cases, a local government could increase taxes all day and still not generate sufficient additional revenue to fund a truly free system of public schools.

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Therefore, due to the increase taxes and increase stress, it seems pointless to put yourself through the ringer simply to try and make more from a day job.
The Republican governor appeared on «Squawk Box» the day after signing the state's budget, in which he vetoed more than $ 1 billion in tax increases that he said would only serve to drive families and businesses out of the state.
But perhaps the biggest irony of these criticisms is that even with the tax increases brought in by Ms. Notley's NDP, corporate and small business tax rates are still lower than they were when Mr. Day served in Premier Ralph Klein «s cabinet.
These families need to be supported through tax credits, wage subsidies, day - care support, and an increase in the minimum wage.
The Date was taken by the Vatican, and proclaimed the Day Christ was born for the sole purpose of assimilating Sol Pagan worshipers into the newly formed Catholic Church in order to increase the tax base of its members.
Results for total caloric intake show that a one percentage point increase in the soft drink tax rate actually increased total caloric intake by 27.7 calories per adult per day.
We chose not to put our children in day care, despite the fact that subsidized day care exists where we live and has been wildly successful in increasing maternal workforce participation while also paying for itself through increased tax revenues.
It was the first time since 1959 that the tax rate had been increased in a district that had been forced to shorten the school day and eliminate a lunch program.
But Assembly Speaker Sheldon Siver exited a closed - door meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to say he expected the major pieces of legislation — a tax cap, SUNY tuition increase scheme, rent control for New York City — will be taken up and passed by the end of the day.
For the second - straight day on Wednesday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was critical of Cuomo's recent comments that pooh - pooed the prospect of increasing taxes on the rich this year by making changes to the state's tax code.
To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.
Gov. Deal has overseen three balanced budgets without raising taxes, saved millions of taxpayer dollars by maintaining Georgia's AAA bond rating, and increased our rainy day fund by more than 500 %.
The De Blasio camp was surprised when the Times took Cuomo's side on dropping the tax increase, urging the mayor to «accept the offer and declare political victory» just two days after the paper had emphatically endorsed the educational goals of mayor's pre-k push.
Many small businesses are already operating on very small margins and increasing their costs, either through increased corporation tax or NICs would push many of them over the edge, at a time when 120 businesses are already closing every day.
Senate Republicans released their second statement in as many days on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to increase taxes on the rich to alleviate transit problems on the subway system.
Moira Kelly, chair of the CIOT Scottish Technical Committee, said: «Today is a historic day in Scotland's devolved tax journey, but the price to pay for exercising these powers will be increased complexity for almost all Scottish taxpayers.
Day also pointed out that Rockland conveyed $ 90 million to the MTA but only received $ 45 million back in services, a value gap that would increase to $ 63 million with the imposition of the mobility tax.
Both Republicans and Democrats have argued against the freeze plan, which would offer homeowners a pre-Election Day check if the municipality in which they live abides by the state's two percent cap on tax increases.
Ahead of the 2015 election, David Cameron has pledged a tax lock — a law to be passed in the first 100 days of a new government to prevent income tax, national insurance or VAT increases during the next parliament.
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The fight over that tax increase was so contentious that New Jersey shut down its government for six days.
With public financing and the alignment of the governor with the legislature, Connecticut passed mandatory paid sick days, increased the minimum wage, adopted an Earned Income Tax Credit, passed in - state tuition for undocumented students, and reversed a nearly 30 - year trend that gave bottle deposits back to distributors and redirected the money to public programs.
«Michael Venditto is trying to distract voters from the fact that, on his first day in office, only weeks after Super Storm Sandy, he voted for unprecedented fee increases which were a back door tax hike on Nassau's struggling families and small business owners who were not yet back in their homes and businesses.»
«While Howard Kopel voted to eliminate the tax on heat and electricity and voted for two no - tax - increase county budgets, his opponent, Adam Moser, wants a 39 percent tax hike so county employees can continue to get free health care, 61 paid days off and big six - figure salaries.
After a budget is voted down, school boards can schedule another vote on the statewide re-vote day, June 19, or the board can adopt a contingency budget that does not increase taxes.
Coupling it with a giveback to favor Thruway users is an unnecessary political ploy.As so many municipalities and school districts struggle, hemmed in by the property tax cap and only modest increases in state aid, if any at all, New York state appears flush with cash these days.
STRONGLY SUPPORT THE PROPERTY TAX CAP TO PROTECT TAXPAYERS Westchester is a beautiful place to live and raise a family, but high taxes and increasing costs are making it harder and harder by the day.
Here is what Ed Day said when the Rockland County Times asked if he'd be running for governor next year: «New York State is in a very similar situation that Rockland was in not long ago, as it is facing financial shortfalls and significant deficits that will result in major tax increases.
Local governments have struggled in the wake of the recession with depleted rainy day funds and a cap on property tax increases, while state aid hasn't increased.
De Blasio initially called for a tax increase on those earning more than $ 500,000 to pay for universal pre-K, but in recent days he has abandoned that push and is simply saying he is «confident» he will get substantial funding.
Cuomo, who is running for re-election this year, has opposed the tax increase and vowed to pay for full - day pre-K throughout the state, something the mayor has thus far rejected as insufficient and unreliable.
«We of course particularly welcome the governor's commitment to universal full - day pre-kindergarten and after - school,» she said and later added, «We think the best way to accomplish that is through the very modest tax increase on the well - to - do that the mayor has proposed.»
Cuomo has outlined over the course of three days a doomsday scenario in which either hospitals, nursing homes and Medicaid beneficiaries lose funding and coverage or the state dramatically increases taxes for all taxpayers.
Cuomo appears to be winning the day on creating a statewide expansion of prekindergarten using state funds rather than a New York City tax increase on high earners pushed hard by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The letter requests that the state defer $ 25 million of the $ 50 million license fee, balanced with an increased tax on gaming revenues, and that the Gaming Commission offer a 60 day extension on the casino RFA.
Day's proposed budget includes a 1.2 percent tax increase, but that would only raise the average homeowner's tax bill by about $ 13 dollars a year.
Day asserted that without any of the savings measures that have been put in place since he took office, residents of Rockland County would have faced a 20 % tax increase in this year's budget.
Not long afterwards there were comments by others about the deficit bond and the likely increase that would be needed in taxes to pay for that bond but that some believed that the sale of Summit Park would solve all of the County's problems which Day had stated could not be farther from the truth.
In recent days he has been saying all sorts of outrageous things: tax cuts would encourage growth, increasing energy costs via green taxes is lunacy in a downturn and the Big Society doesn't really seem to have caught on as a concept.
The House revenue plan, which could boost state and local taxes by as much as $ 800 million, was adopted only days after the Senate approved a bill increasing state revenues by about $ 250 million.
How we got to 9.8 % is a sausage - making story for another day, but if there is ever a lose - lose, this is it: we're cutting 10 % of the staff and increasing the local tax levy 10 %.
This attack on the EITC is befuddling, given that the expansion of educational tax credits, a $ 75 million increase, is less than public schools across Pennsylvania spend in one day.
«A recent bipartisan poll commissioned by TSTA showed that Texans overwhelmingly oppose diverting tax dollars to vouchers and instead favor tapping into the Rainy Day Fund to increase spending for under - funded neighborhood public schools.»
«We're in a good position right now, we've actually been able to cut taxes and restore our rainy - day fund, and I predict we will have the money necessary to give a pay increase to teachers this year,» said Harwell.
But until the district passes a tax increase, contingent on Jackson and Gordon successfully selling their reform package to lawmakers and taxpayers, money problems will be the order of the day.
719 days since PRU 13, how much have taxes, business licence fees, parking fees, water tariff increased in penang and selangor?
The exact wording is below: «Upon thirty (30) days written notice to Resident, Landlord may alter rental payment to cover additional costs in operating the premises incurred by Landlord because of any increase in ad valorem property taxes, charges for the electricity, heating fuel, and water consumed at the property, or increases in premiums paid for liability, fire or worker compensation insurance.
Provincial government data shows an increase in foreign homebuyers in the days before the tax came into effect on Aug. 2, but then a sharp drop in the month that followed.
That was true even in the days when we might have dreamed that the worst we could expect in the way of tax increases was reverting to the Clinton - era rate of 39.6 %.
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