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Bharara said the complaint outlines what he believes is a «systemic problem» in Albany — and he was also quick to note that when he uses the term «Albany,» he means the state government that is located there, and not the city itself, which he called a «wonderful town,» as Mayor Kathy Sheehan has told him «multiple times.»

That means state government would appoint seven of the 15 members.

Or perhaps it means the state government will offer financial carrots or regulatory sticks.

The Indian National Mission on Biodiesel may have been quietly shelved recently, but that doesn't mean that state governments aren't continuing forward with their plans to cultivate Jatropha for biodiesel.

Not exact matches

The reversal of the Cole Memo, written by then - Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole in 2013 means that there will be more confusion about the legality of growing, selling, and using the drug in places where state and local laws clash with the federal government.

That means that as gross domestic product (GDP) has expanded, the gains have flowed to corporate and owners» profits and to the state, which is delighted to collect higher taxes at every level of government, from property taxes to income taxes.

The other 41 states have either a flat income tax — meaning everyone, regardless of how much they earn, pays the same percentage of their income to the government — or a progressive income tax, which means your tax rate is determined by your income.

Other conspiracies say the eye on the seal of the United States and the dollar bill means the government is always watching us.

More than likely if the DFS operators lose, it will mean that the state government will be able to collect taxes from the games.

And while that statistic might not be trustworthy, its publication in the state - run newspaper means the government is concerned about the prevalence of overwork - related deaths.

Also cited on the DOJ's explanation of the statute is a decision from former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who wrote, «To conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the Government out of property or money.»

The outcry is in response to Indiana's Republican Gov. Mike Pence signing into law a «religious freedom» bill that will free individuals and business owners from abiding by state and local laws that «substantially» burden their exercise of religion, unless the government can prove that it has a compelling interest and is doing so by the least restrictive means.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

California Air Resources Board chief Mary Nichols told Reuters last month that a group of states was considering the legal move, but it does not mean they could not still try to reach agreement with automakers and the federal government.

The changed legal positions already advanced by Sessions means minority voters looking to prove that the state's strict voter ID law is intentionally discriminatory will probably have to do without the federal government's backing, as will transgender students who argue that the law allows them to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

Most safety net programs are currently administered at the state or federal level, rather than the local level — meaning that states have a greater capacity to cover independent contractors through government safety net programs.

To most readers, this did not mean the dissolution of the CEIFB, especially when earlier on the same page, the Minister of Finance stated that «the CEIFB will continue to set the rate but the Government will limit rate increases to no more than 5 cents per year until the EI Operating Account is balanced».

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

For state and local governments, the statutory requirements for balanced budgets meant that fiscal policies turned restrictive relatively quickly once budget surpluses and rainy day funds were exhausted, and this was only temporarily mitigated by federal transfers to the states as part of the initial fiscal stimulus program.

It reduced the cap on borrowing subject to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) from $ 1 million to $ 750,000, and capped deductions for state and local taxes, including property taxes, at $ 10,000.1 These changes, in combination with a doubling of the standard deduction, mean that many homeowners will experience a loss of tax benefits associated with homeownership, and the changes represent a significant shift in the federal government's willingness to promote and subsidize homeownership.

I mean, think about areas outside of the United States that have high inflation rates, if you are a consumer there, in an oppressive regime, you want a way to have more control over your assets and not be at the whim of governments, so that's kind of how it all started.

Tomorrow is Tax Day which means that over the last few months — and for another month or so to come — Americans will be collecting big refund checks from both the Federal and state governments.

Unlike the United States, most democracies think this means that tax dollars should accompany every student whether they attend government - operated or privately operated schools.

The separation of church and state should mean that it doesn't matter whether the president is protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, Atheist, Muslim, whatever — the government does not and can not privilege one religion over another.

The «establishment of religion» clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church.

They suggested three ways in which RFRA might conceivably be interpreted (misinterpreted, really) to create bad consequences: (1) to give a church's opponents legal «standing» (a technical term meaning the right to sue) to challenge the church's tax - exempt status; (2) to allow taxpayers to claim their free exercise rights would be violated if a religiously affiliated organization receives government assistance under a secular program; and, most importantly, (3) to allow pro-abortion plaintiffs to claim a free exercise right to abortion if Roe v. Wade is overruled and states enact anti-abortion laws.

When Christians say that «Jesus Christ is Lord,» meaning that since nothing else can command our total allegiance, the state and the government are not Lord, they are saying what Jews declare when they give assent to the first commandment: «You shall have no other gods before me.»

The «separation of church and state» (a phrase not actually in the Constitution) has meant, above all, that the government should keep its hands off, and that includes the entanglements and hindrances that attend taxation.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

When government agencies use religious symbols, they are typically not sectarian symbols but those common to all believers in the United States, which means political units (chiefly the nation), not ecclesiastical units, are the units of reference.

That means abandoning one - size - fits - all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained.

Churches which enjoy tax exempt status means they're being subsidized by the government - separation of church and state?

Separation of church and state means that churches stay out of government and government stays of churches and when one crosses the other, then it becomes public.

Separation of church and state simply means the government is not in support of, nor against, any particular religion unless an organization poses itself at opposition to the government or its citizens.

Many religious leaders, as well as public officials, talk of friendship between church and state, and claim that in charging the government to be neutral regarding religion the founders meant «neutral among different sects.»

Legalization, however, means that the government would maintain regulatory control over drug sales, possibly through state clinics or stores.

Separation of church and state means the government can not pass laws to impede religion and the religion can not tell the government what to do, that's all.

This does not mean Christians should seek to use the power of the United States government to secure preferences for our fellow Christians.

According to DOMA, states are not required to recognize a same - sex marriage performed in another state, meaning these couples are not eligible for Social Security survivors» benefits, insurance for government employees, immigration status, filing of joint taxes and more.

In reality what this will mean more ground conceded to the government's «Equalities» agenda: the guidelines state that schools will have to demonstrate not only that they do not contravene the 2010 Equalities Act but that they «actively promote» and support it.

Banks talk about the «full faith and credit» of the United States Government in insuring our deposits, meaning that we trust that if the bank loses our money, the government will giveGovernment in insuring our deposits, meaning that we trust that if the bank loses our money, the government will givegovernment will give it to us.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

Plans by the government to further «open up» the welfare state will simply mean «big profits for big business» the Public and Commercial Services union says.

After 60 years of nationhood, it is inexcusable that a lawfully - constituted government can not apply finesse in the retrieval of supposedly - missing state assets but resorts to unlawful means to justify false claims of supposed missing assets.

«One of my office's top priorities is to restore New Yorkers» faith in their state government, and that means we need to arm our top ethics body with strong and effective leaders,» Schneiderman said.

This also means that the only real punishments impeachment can carry is removal from office and / or a ban on running for elected office in Federal Government (not sure on state level).

Note that this applies to state as well as federal officials, and that in this context within the U.S. Constitution, the term «state» means «state and local» (although not necessarily tribal government) officials.

At 10 a.m., the state Senate Finance Committee and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee hold a joint hearing on the 2018 - 2019 executive budget in regard to local government officials, Legislative Office Building, Hearing Room B, second floor, Albany.

In Russia «liberal» means people who oppose welfare state, free education and medicine, support privatization and free markets, oppose protectionism and government regulation, support the US and NATO on international issues (such as NATO bombings).

The widespread perception that incarceration was used as a means of getting business people to cough up large sums to replenish the state treasury did not enhance the popular image of the government.