Sentences with phrase «much bigger government»

If you want much bigger government, you have to pay for it with broadly based taxes, even if the rich and upper middle class bear the biggest burdens.

Too much big government.»

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This year, the government announced a much bigger investment geared toward collecting housing data — $ 300 million over the next decade, including $ 39.9 million to study foreign ownership.

Governments will need to have a much bigger role in helping people whose jobs are disappearing because of technology, said the mayor of Atlanta.

The federal government is the biggest source of funding, and even that doesn't amount to much.

But in the world of tight government budgets, small repairs have historically been put off to save money in the short term, which add up to much bigger costs down the road.

The Notley government has already done plenty to increase revenues, including corporate tax hikes, bigger rates for high - income earners and a much - maligned new carbon tax.

PIMCO CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer Mohamed El - Erian says uninsured small businesses will suffer the biggest impact from the Hurricane Sandy superstorm that hit the East Coast this week, but they shouldn't expect much government help to recover from the disaster.

And while a gridlocked federal government hasn't done much to stimulate the economy, Paulsen said the weakening dollar and falling interest rates could give U.S. businesses, especially technology companies, a big boost.

Much of the coverage has focused on what happened and how it could have been prevented, but the question now is whether Facebook — and other big tech companies — will have to be regulated by the government in a way we never imagined before.

I believe my question is relevant to Sam's and your post as the government has a big impact on the economy — the economy has a big impact on interest, dividends and stocks — which have a big impact on how much you can withdraw from your savings.

Governments generally get a much bigger stimulus bang for their buck when they spend directly on projects, such as roads and bridges, rather than giving cheques or tax breaks to individuals, who may choose to bank the money instead of spending it.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

Some 53 percent of Americans believe big tech companies should be regulated by the federal government, much like big banks are, according to a new survey from market research firm HarrisX.

A big open question is how much sway Nabiullina holds over the dominant top 10 banks, the six biggest of them controlled by arms of the federal government.

Those too - big - to - fail banks took on too much risk because they knew the government would save them from death.

I have a notion that what separates Dr. Henry's thinking and mine is not so much a question of big or small government as such....

You may say that Rand would detest the way things are now, but so much of what things have become was driven by worship of the almighty dollar as well as the ability that big business has to influence all of government to the extent that it might as well be fully in control of our government.

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That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

The postwar Attlee government and the Thatcher administrations made a much bigger difference to the British political landscape.

'' The next two years will provide no shortage of challenges for our Conference, its partners in government and all New Yorkers: A multi-billion dollar budget deficit needing closure, a government that is still too big and spends too much, chronic unemployment, some of the nation's highest taxes and a continued lack of public confidence in state government,» Kolb said.

Before ~ 1900 the Republicans were much more pro big government.

They changed their mind because they concluded that the impact of tax rises and spending cuts on economic growth — the fabled «fiscal multipliers» — has turned out to be a much bigger drag on growth than they, the Government or the OBR originally thought.

How much you want to bet her mother went on medicaid to pay her bills — you know that BIG GOVERNMENT program that rich people STEAL from by giving away assets to their children.

I knew that Republican politicians are very much in favor of big government (arguably more than Democrats) but I didn't think that was a particularly conservative stance.

Rather confusingly, Hannan seems to want a centralised Big Government edict to enforce the social responsibility he wants to see, writing «if everyone were responsible for his own patch of pavement, the disruption caused by snow would be much diminished.

In as much as it's the State regulating minor aspects of peoples» lives, it's «Big Government».

During the economic downturn, people became more acutely aware of just how big their tax had become for all that government spending, and how much that hit family budgets.

«Whatever it is you think state government should or shouldn't be doing, with public financing you have a much better chance of having your voice and your neighbors» voices heard and not drowned out by big money,» Scharff said.

It's still a 10 % increase and if we were talking about any other program it would be an insane amount of money, especially for a President and a political party that constantly claims government is too big and spends too much money.

«Government could deliver a much bigger, and more beneficial, boost the construction industry by removing the cap on local authorities» housing investment which would help councils build up to 60,000 new homes.»

I should have liked to hear about personal tax deductions for charitable donations, and I should very much like the Treasury - either directly or through the big society bank - to help charities to procure local government services.

He said in as much as the government was not interested in shutting down markets, it would have no choice than to wield the big stick if traders continue constituting themselves as a menace to other road users.

The prime minister's spokesman claimed the government was having to put out so much news on the one day because it had «a big agenda».

His staunch support for the coalition's welfare reforms, which the rebellious Lords continued to systematically take apart this week in two big defeats for the government, underlined the fact that much of the coalition's policy book is straight out of the Tory party manifesto.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

Agreeing that the government's measures «are fundamentally illiberal», Tom Clougherty, executive director of the Adam Smith Institute, added: «It seems to me that tobacco is at the coalface of a much bigger cultural battle, in which capitalism, individualism and rationality are all coming under relentless attack by the enemies of freedom.»

And he suggested commercial interests in people's data were a much bigger threat to civil liberties than actions by government.

In 2010 it was the Liberal Democrats who were the kingmakers: next time it could be UKIP, the Greens, the SNP or even the Democratic Unionist Party who find themselves helping to prop up a government — and that means the bigger parties will be engaging in a lot of courting, a lot of bargaining, and not much in the way of chilling before polling day.

He side - stepped Maddow's question on whether he sympathizes with the Occupy Wall Streeters protesting right across the street from his Lower Manhattan office in Zuccotti Park, although he did say that he thought these demonstrations are merely «the tip of a much bigger iceberg» and proof that Americans are generally angry and dissatisfied with the government.

«While a majority of all Defectors said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party, the second biggest factor for those who had switched to the Conservatives was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.

Trump again raised the prospect of nuclear war with North Korea, boasting in strikingly playground terms last night that he commands a «much bigger» and «more powerful» arsenal of devastating weapons than the outlier government in Asia.

Equally, in 2010 a profusion of books about Cameron's vision of the Big Society didn't provide much of a guide to the coalition government's actual programme.

So much of his money has come from the big people and so little from the little people who want progressive government.

And there is so much in the Adminstration to investigate regarding the Agencies and Authorities (the latter being the Shadow Government that pulls that State train) that Mr. Dicker's credibility will be at stake until he runs a big story about the Administartion's negative side and does not try to minimize it.

He said in as much as government was not interested in shutting down markets, but it would have no choice than to wield the big stick if traders continue constituting themselves as menace to other road users.

When the issue of the economy does come up we are subjected to the big lie that we are in this mess because the last Labour government spent and borrowed too much.

A large and growing portion of the public is sick and tired of having to choose between a big - government Republican and a much bigger - government Democrat.

But because government got too big, did too much and doubled the national debt.»