Sentences with phrase «on wealthy earners»

That was likely an olive branch to de Blasio who is building a grassroots campaign to persuade Albany to allow him raise to $ 530 million by increasing city tax on wealthy earners.

The lower rates were a trade - off for an extension of the state's high tax rate on wealthy earners.

But he wants a guarantee that revenue would fund public transportation, and he said higher income taxes on wealthy earners might be a better way to raise the money.

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

The inclusion of extending high tax rates on wealthy earners in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2017 - 18 budget proposal has the potential to set up an ideological fight over economics with Republicans in the state Senate.

State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox knocked President Barack Obama's proposal to raise taxes on the wealthiest earners, saying that he has failed to heed the message of the GOP victory in ninth congressional district.

Another interesting line is the money reported by the Strong Economy For All coalition, which really tapped into the Occupy movement and pushed hard for an extension of the state's tax on the wealthiest earners instead of spending cuts.

Not exact matches

During his speech, he explained to the crowd that if the Liberals were elected on Oct. 19, that they would raise taxes by asking Canada's wealthiest income earners «to pay just a little bit more.»

With over a decade as captain and one of the highest earners at mega-rich Chelsea, it is no surprise to see John Terry as among the wealthiest footballers on the planet at the moment.

Sixty - four percent of registered voters who were surveyed said they support a proposal to increase taxes on the city's wealthiest earners, while only 21 percent favored tolling motorists entering Manhattan, according to the Quinnipiac University Poll released on Friday.

Liberal groups are eager for the expiring rates to set the table for a debate on increasing taxes on the wealthy, essentially defined as the 1 percent of top earners in New York, or those who make $ 665,000 and above.

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.»

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.

Democrats who dominate the state Assembly are expected to argue, as Deutsch did, for raising taxes on the wealthy and perhaps creating new brackets to capture higher income earners.

I think that by singling out business owners rather than focusing on high - income earners in general, regardless of whether they are business owners or not, the proposed tax changes miss the mark if the Liberals truly want wealthy Canadians to pay more.

First and foremost, it reiterates Trudeau's pledge to cut the tax rate for middle - income earners and provide a more generous child benefit to those who need it, all paid for by a tax hike on the wealthiest one per cent.

Daren Blomquist, the vice president of RealtyTrac, notes that this housing market is so pricey for area workers because «it's a resort market where most of the buyers are wealthy individuals coming in from the outside, making the real - estate market less dependent on local wage earners.»