Sentences with phrase «keep proposed tax increases»

Further hearings will be held to give lawmakers a chance to find additional savings in the Mayor's budget proposal in their effort to keep proposed tax increases to a minimum.

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Cain kept rising in the polls for a couple of weeks after that, but if other missteps and a sex scandal hadn't destroyed his candidacy first, the growing realization that he had proposed a middle - class tax increase would have finished him.

Top Senate Republicans considered keeping President Barack Obama's tax increase on wealthier people's investments and using the money to bolster their proposed health care subsidies in a bid to mollify moderate GOP lawmakers and salvage the party's struggling bill.

One proposed spending plan would stay within the 0.65 percent tax cap; another would exceed that limit but keep the increase under 2 percent.

The proposed property tax cap would force Oswego to keep any tax increases to less than five percent.

Administration officials said the true deficit number at the start of the process was $ 4.4 billion and that keeping state spending to the 2 percent cap level — which got things down to a $ 1.7 billion deficit — took a combination of spending cuts and proposed tax increases.

A plan to roll back New York's estate tax was modified from what Cuomo proposed, keeping the tax rate at 16 percent but increasing the amount that is exempted from $ 1 million to an eventual $ 5.25 million.

He has proposed a budget that would eliminate numerous jobs including that of 37 members of the Sheriff's patrol, cut funding for services that were not contracted, and keep the property tax increase to 2 %.

To keep the Social Security system financially solvent, several policy reforms have been proposed, including reducing retirement benefits, increasing the retirement age, raising taxes, offering incentives to delay retirement, and encouraging individual retirement savings.

To keep the Social Security system financially solvent, several policy reforms have been proposed, including reducing retirement benefits, increasing the retirement age, raising taxes, offering incentives to delay retirement, and encouraging individual retirement savings.