Sentences with phrase «less tax dollars»

Mintz agrees that less tax dollars in the future could be a problem, but suggests the short - fall could be made up by increasing the GST or by introducing other types of expenditure taxes and levies.

We'd get a healthier work force, less people filing for bankruptcy due to medical debt and less tax dollars going to pay hospital bills for people who can't or won't afford it.

Not exact matches

They also showed agreement, albeit to a lesser extent, with Flaherty's alternate proposal of an embedded capital tax, where financial institutions could convert debt to equity to aid the financial institution in the event of a crisis instead of using taxpayer dollars.

As a result of our Government's low - tax plan, the average Canadian family now pays 3,200 dollars less in taxes every year.

(Remember, when Trump sued Tim O'Brien for publishing Trump insiders» claims that Trump was worth less than $ 250 million dollars, Trump was eventually forced to show O'Brien's lawyers his tax returns.)

Any estate worth one point five million dollars or less is exempt from federal estate taxes.

1) not at the top tax bracket yet, thus less expensive to have taxable dollars; 2) before 35, generally significant expenses such as house purchase, engagement ring, wedding, etc.; 3) keep liquidity for potential opportunities — «cash is king»; 4) use after - tax dollars to buy RE and rent it out for another stream of passive income, which is generally not taxable due to depreciation — could be a retirement vehicle in itself.

Debt - financed tax cuts may well push up interest rates in the U.S., which attracts more foreign investment, which raises the value of the dollar, which makes exports less competitive and imports cheaper, which increases the trade deficit.

Although the preceding example uses a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit, even a less generous state tax credit would create the distortion I describe.

Since every dollar you spend on taxes is one less you have to spend on your retirement goals, it makes sense to focus on your after - tax income.

I guess that in a world where 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day, nothing threatens Christian values more than a man who wants to take our tax breaks back.

Every dollar my wife and I give to charity is roughly $ 0.30 less I'd give to the US in taxes if we itemized our taxes.

Most of those piously talking about individuals helping others are simply those that are already the most stingy and balk at the idea of any tax dollars going to someone less fortunate.

Fine then stop giving them tax dollars again all this will do is force them to close because they will not go against their beliefs, which means less health care available which we are going to need desperately.

Tax me less, spend less, and if you really feel compelled to keep a bit of pork in that fat Federal Belly... at least use my tax dollar too help supplement wounded veterans and / or assist wartime veterans in some of the things they need to re-integrate back into their country after serving Tax me less, spend less, and if you really feel compelled to keep a bit of pork in that fat Federal Belly... at least use my tax dollar too help supplement wounded veterans and / or assist wartime veterans in some of the things they need to re-integrate back into their country after serving tax dollar too help supplement wounded veterans and / or assist wartime veterans in some of the things they need to re-integrate back into their country after serving it.

He said that property owners in the Addison Park District pay less than 6 percent of every property tax dollar to fund recreational programs and park facilities.

Those who hold this view pride themselves on not taking any handouts and certainly refuse to offer them, viewing tax dollars spent on programs assisting those less fortunate as an instance of government overstepping its boundaries.

When we as individuals, however, volunteer our hard - earned dollars to advance society by freely giving from our own pockets, government taxes us less.

This is an assessment from our intelligence agencies, no less... your tax dollars at work.

«While the Empire State fares well in some areas, in total it receives significantly less per tax dollar than the vast majority of states.

«Even a very low rate surcharge (of one percent or less) can provide billions of dollars that would allow us to avoid property tax increases and steep cutbacks in education and other essential services,» said Mauro.

According to the economist, the total cost of infrastructure from loans, grants and taxes from 2009 to date, is less than 7 billion dollars.

Less than two years after Governor Jerry Brown coaxed voters into approving a multi-billion dollar tax hike as a solution to the state's budget crisis, a plurality of Californians believe that...

Wake up, it's your own tax dollars coming back only less of it.

The group wants a ten percent reduction in the personal income tax, which many business who gross less than half a billion dollars a year pay instead of corporate taxes.

He says they'd have to pay $ 294 more dollars in additional federal pay roll taxes, nearly $ 3000 in additional state and federal personal income taxes, and would receive $ 1300 less in earned income tax credits for the working poor.

Governor Cuomo's second legislative session was far less dramatic than his first legislative session in 2011, when he convinced the legislature to authorize same sex marriage, instate a 2 % property tax cap, and close a massive $ 10 billion dollar budget deficit.

Arguably, the Library returns more per tax dollar received than any other arm of County government and continues to accomplish more with less year after year.

«If you want to know why your taxes are going to go up while corporations making billions of dollars will pay less, it's because not enough people vote,» he said.

Every dollar we spend in CHIPS is one less dollar the local taxpayer has to spend, so there's property tax relief and mandate relief.»

Of the public tax dollars spent on agricultural research, organic receives less than one percent of the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breeding.

Less defensible: only the first million dollars of paid ransom is tax deductible.

Andrew Coulson compared vouchers and tax credits empirically and found that credits are less prone to regulation, probably because no one has tax dollars taken away and sent to someone else.

The math is simple: the federal government is spending a trillion dollars a year it doesn't have, entitlements are on an unsustainable course, and nobody wants to raise taxes on the 98 % of families earning less than $ 250,000 a year.

Or, it could be more vouchers gone wild — more tax dollars spent, less accountability.

Many public schools are forced to do more with less because lawmakers who voted for the last state budget increased state tax dollars to private schools.

Let's be absolutely clear: a donation of a million dollars will be subsidized by tax payers to the tune of $ 750,000 for scholarships that might go to people earning $ 300,000 annually while genuinely needy families will get a $ 500 coupon for tuition (which is about 1/24 the average cost of tuition at a Catholic school in the United States) and teachers will get slightly less than the cost of 10 packs of multi-colored Sharpies.

The money we receive from state funding is approximately $ 5,000 less per student than the amount surrounding high schools receive from local tax dollars.

A dollar - for - dollar credit operates less like a tax incentive and more like a direct transfer of taxpayer funds away from the public education fund and into private hands.

For the prekindergarten program alone, they identified $ 92,220 in present value benefits and $ 8,512 in present value costs in 2007 dollars — a benefit - cost ratio of 10.83 to 1.22 The benefits derived mainly from reduced public education expenditures due to lower grade retention and use of special education, reduced costs to the criminal justice system and victims of crime due to lower crime rates, reduced expenditures on child welfare due to less child abuse and neglect, higher projected earnings of center participants, and increased income tax revenue due to projected higher lifetime earnings of center participants.

These programs already divert $ 125 million business tax dollars out of the general fund and into private and religious schools, leaving less money to fund investments in public schools that educate 90 % of Pennsylvania's children.

Despite the fact that his party had control of both legislative houses this year, the most McDonnell managed to do was to pass the voucher - like tax credit plan (which has been criticized for only allowing those providing scholarships to poor kids to write off a mere 65 cents of every dollar spent, or less than similar plans) and a weak charter school expansion that has only allowed four new charters to be opened this past school year.

Getting this myth «believed» meant new opportunities to turn tax dollars into profits — profits from, for example, paying a few teachers more and many teachers less; profits from designing standardized tests; profits from renting school facilities; profits from managing schools; profits from data management systems and test - scoring systems; and profits from selling software platforms and computing devices.

Stretch your dollars, now lower taxes mean less cost to lease your next vehicle.

Instead, maximize your contribution dollars by adding less efficient assets to your tax - advantaged accounts.

The fund invests principally in investment - grade, tax - exempt securities with an average dollar - weighted portfolio maturity of three years or less.

But it does imply that spending $ 1 less versus earning $ 1 more produces a larger net dollar benefit beyond today's current tax structure would take away.

Seen as a family unit, the net tax paid by such couples would be potentially thousands of dollars less.

That means that every dollar you contribute can be subtracted from your income, so you pay less in taxes.

Drawing from your taxable accounts and Roth IRAs first can keep your taxes down and allows you to withdraw less than had you taken pre-tax dollars out.