Sentences with phrase «on city residents»

He continued to assert that the best way to fund it was through a small income tax increase on city residents earning more than $ 500,000 per year.

There will also be a strong focus on city residents who will go to the polls for the mayoral election, he added.

De Blasio wants to raise income taxes on city residents earning more than $ 500,000 to fund the program, but Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a competing plan to fund universal pre-k statewide without increasing taxes.

«The provision excludes New York City, putting an unfair and disproportionate burden on City residents to cover the state's exorbitant Medicaid expenses,» Donovan said.

The Senate did not embrace his call to fund the programs with an income tax hike on city residents earning $ 500,000 or more, but the Senate allocation would cover the cost fully, based on the city's budget estimates.

Union officials vowed to activate their collective member base, which they say is 1.3 million strong, to pressure elected officials in Albany to support de Blasio's plan to raise taxes on city residents making $ 500,000 a year or more.

If he believes that the state's tax structure is a job - killer and one of the chief reasons why upstate New York remains mired in a permanent recession, he ought to ask for broader tax cuts, including a decrease in the state's personal income tax rate, which tops out at nearly 9 percent (that does not include the additional tax burden placed on city residents, who pay up to 3.8 percent in personal income taxes.)

Rodriguez called on city residents to join protests scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 17, the second month anniversary of the occupation.

The new pre-K seats come with a price tag, and de Blasio hammered home his plan before Albany lawmakers on Monday to pay for the seats through a tax increase on city residents making $ 500,000 a year or more.

De Blasio is asking Cuomo to allow him to raise income taxes for five years on city residents who earn at least $ 500,000 annually.

Cuomo's comments come the day after de Blasio doubled down on his commitment to pay for the early childhood education program by raising taxes by a half a percentage point on city residents earning $ 500,000 or more a year.

A whopping 850 cities have a bike share program, conferring health and happiness benefits on city residents.

That fix calls for a tax hike on city residents, forces workers to keep paying into a broken system and does nothing to change the way the city runs retirements for its city workers.

The proposed amendment exempts New York City, putting an unfair and disproportionate burden on City residents to fund the entire state's share of the Medicaid bill.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce a proposal for a tax on city residents who earn more than $ 500,000 to raise money for subway and bus improvements — the latest salvo in the battle between de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo over who bears responsibility for repairing the deteriorating transit system.

De Blasio has proposed a tax on city residents making more than $ 500,000 a year to help fund the transit system.

Some 50,000 4 - year - olds in New York City would get the opportunity to enroll in the «life changing» prekindergarten program by hiking the income tax on city residents earning at least $ 500,000, Klein said.

Kann, who challenged Vallone in 2001 and 2005 on the Green Party line but ran as a Populist this year, focused much of his third campaign on a proposal to raise income taxes on city residents earning more than $ 500,000 per year to pay for city services that have been neglected during the economic downturn.

That would provide a larger tax base for the park district and reduce the burden on city residents, Recreation Director Dave Zinnen said.

Syracuse's Green Party office seekers want to see state aid return to historic levels and a new scaled local income tax on city residents and those that work in it.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed a higher income tax on city residents to fund an expansion in New York City.

He also recalled how he failed to win support from the State Senate and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his campaign proposal to fund universal pre-K with a tax on city residents earning more than half a million annually.

De Blasio's plan is to hike income taxes on city residents earning more than $ 500,000 a year in order to fund an expansion of Pre-K.

«The provision excludes New York City, putting an unfair and disproportionate burden on city residents to cover the state's exorbitant Medicaid expenses,» Donovan said in a statement to the Observer, noting that New York's Medicaid program is among the most expensive in the nation.