Sentences with phrase «interest spending»

Currently, the tax break allows homeowners to deduct up to $ 1 million in interest spent on their mortgage debt, for their primary residence and one additional dwelling.

In 2013, independent groups tied to big real estate, charter schools, and other special interests spent almost $ 16 million on the city's elections, with $ 8 million alone going to the wide open mayor's race and $ 6 million spent in City Council races.

In the state of Michigan, however, an attempt to write a 25 per cent renewables target into the state's constitution was lost after fossil fuel interests spent $ 35 million campaigning against it.

Over the last two years, fossil fuel interests spent more than $ 700 million to shape a Congress that would champion its priorities, according to a December report by the Center for American Progress, based on data from the Center for Responsive Politics and Kantar Media Intelligence / CMAG, as published by the Atlas Project.

For a business book on management, Twitter and LinkedIn are great choices because that's where people in this field of interest spend time.

Real estate interests spent heavily in the last election cycle to assist the G.O.P. in its successful quest to win back a clean majority, though it has maintained a non-power sharing relationship with five - member Independent Democratic Conference.

Though term limits would not stem the tide of candidate and special interest spending in the state's judicial elections,...

If you already own a business interest you spent time and effort developing before your intended came along, a prenuptial agreement can protect the increase in value of the business from the date of marriage to the date of separation from being included in the marital estate.

On one level, this is a basic math problem — interest spent over 10 years in PSLF vs what you'll pay to your folks.

Common Cause: Pro-Fracking Interests Spent Millions on Politics A new Common Cause / NY report released Monday highlights the role that money plays in the policy debate over allowing hydraulic fracturing in New York.

The Times reports that gaming interests spend $ 6 million in lobbying costs prior to the state referendum that approved casino gaming and that those same interests donated «amply, and continuously, to state politicians» campaign accounts,» including those of both Cuomo and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican who is likely to run for governor in November.

-- Like any normal household, if we consider mandatory / interest spending as a % of revenues, it now consumes 98 % of revenues

From 2007 to 2013, corn ethanol interests spent $ 158 million lobbying for more mandates and subsidies — and $ 6 million in campaign contributions — for a fuel that reduces mileage, damages engines, requires enormous amounts of land, water and fertilizer, and from stalk to tailpipe emits more carbon dioxide than gasoline.

In this analysis, Public Campaign Action Fund has attempted to quantify how much coal and oil interests spent in the first six months of 2008.

These five interests only represent a slice of the coal interests spending money in politics, and just a few players among many in the coal, oil, gas and chemical industries that dump millions of dollars into public relations campaigns telling us that climate change is not a problem.

«The onslaught of IE spending was fortunately somewhat offset by the City's matching fund system, which empowers voters to make their voice heard over special interest spending.

Endowment funds are invested with only a portion of the interest spent, thus providing an income source that is never depleted.

The GOP has been rallying under the banner of deflated government and curtailed special - interest spending, concepts that have widespread support.

Karen Scharff of Citizen Action New York says public campaign financing would save the government money in the long run by driving out special interest spending.

«Years of Republican job - killing taxes, skyrocketing property taxes, and special - interest spending, have New Yorkers demanding change.

Senators Cory Booker (N.J.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), who top the list of potential Democratic challengers to President Donald Trump in 2020, both announced last week that they would forgo accepting donations from corporate PACs in an effort to cure the corrosive effect they say special interest spending has had on the political system.

His three - pronged legislation would set up a «People's Fund» to provide financial support in those federal races where grassroots candidates face special - interest spending that exceeds national averages.

Excerpt: «I am a fiscal conservative who you can count on to stand up against wasteful special interest spending.»

-- All other things being equal, mandatory / interest spending will exceed 100 % of revenues shortly, and then continue to increase relentlessly due to the aging of the population and the ever - escalating cost of healthcare