Sentences with phrase «of upper income earners»

While his promise to cut taxes, mostly to the benefit of upper income earners, will probably lead to a short - term boost in U.S. GDP growth, it also threatens to leave a significant shortfall in federal tax revenue down the road — as much as $ 6.2 trillion over the next decade.

The least you could do is be clear to your readers that the recomendations you are making are geared towards a small minority of upper income earners.

Not exact matches

The report from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (TPC) found that while Americans at all income levels would, on average, get a tax cut form the final version of the tax bill, the benefit would be skewed towards people at the upper range of income earners.

But for most middle - and even upper - middle - income earners, the prospect of making one's savings stretch into what seems like an endless retirement is a daunting one, increasing the uncertainty around how to invest, how to pay for medical care, and whether you can leave a legacy behind for the kids or your community.

Additionally, Trump kept open the option of raising taxes on upper - income earners.

Social Security represents a substantial share of income for the bottom quintile but is less important for higher - earners — reflecting the progressive nature of the benefit formula and the fact that higher - earners have many other sources of income — whereas private retirement income is less important at the low end but is more important for middle and upper - income groups (those at the very top mostly rely on investment or business income).

Hewitt is expecting these «crucial commitments» from a candidate who promised gargantuan upper - income tax cuts during the Republican primary, then said he wasn't necessarily a huge fan of his own tax cut proposal, and then engaged in nonsensical double - talk about whether taxes would go up or down on high - earners.

The Hedge Clippers analysis argues that the massive sums from the hedge fund industry have helped create a system where wealthy individuals pay «nowhere near their fair share» due to tax policies that favor the rich, including a low tax bracket on upper - income earners and on «carried interest» profits, as well as the recent elimination of the «alternative minimum tax.»

Even Clegg's flagship raising of the income tax threshold was soon revealed by the Resolution Foundation to direct most of its huge # 10bn cost to the benefit of the upper half while low earners gained little.

Cuomo said preventing upper - middle - class and wealthier taxpayers from using the deduction will help drive them out of the state and put more of a tax burden on lower - income earners.

Mr. Wright, however, was hazier on the details of how to reconcile such a moratorium with Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to construct and maintain 200,000 units of affordable housing, which hinges in part on re-zonings and outlays for upper - income construction that devotes 20 percent new units for low - and middle - income earners — a plan Mr. Wright said he was «very much in support of.»

We know the upper class is the top 20 % of income earners and the lower class are the bottom 20 %.

That, in the middle of the global distribution (where people emit about 7 tCO2e per person per year), we find «the top 1 % earners from Tanzania, the upper middle class (7th decile) in Mongolia and China as well as poor French and Germans (respectively 2nd and 3rd income deciles,» and that, at the bottom of the global distribution, we have, for example, the poorest 7 % of the population of India, (at about 0.15 tCO2e).