Sentences with phrase «only top earners»

Medical professions aren't the only top earners and six figure jobs.

Many Democrats claim the plan — which includes both corporate and income tax reform — favors only the top earners, while fiscal conservatives worry the tax cuts could dig the U.S. deeper into deficit spending and add to the already - mountainous national debt, requiring another showdown over raising the debt ceiling.

Not exact matches

«I ran the numbers, and if you doubled the top two rates for the highest earners, you'd cut the deficit by only one - seventh over the next thirty,» he says.

While the rate facing the highest earners in B.C. remains only 47.7 %, the top rate in Ontario, Quebec, and some other provinces now exceeds 50 %.

Moreover, CBO's latest baseline assumptions predict earnings to grow faster for high - income earners than for others in the next decade, [32] suggesting that the Great Recession and financial crisis may have had only a temporary impact on the rising trend of income gains at the top, much as the impact of the dot - com collapse in the early 2000s was only temporary.

As of 2017, only individuals making more than $ 1.07 million dollars pay the top rate, and earners in the next bracket pay nearly 2 % less.

Researchers Michael Wolfson, Mike Veall, and Neil Brooks have shown that if you look at the top one percent of the top one percent of earners (which includes only those with incomes over $ 2.6 million in 2012), upwards of 70 per cent of them have substantial ownership of a CCPC.

Within the wage share of the economy â $ «which includes everyone from chief executive officers to servers â $ «only the average top -1-per-cent earner saw enough income growth to outpace inflation between 2009 and 2011.

While we on the matter... what a total farce on contract renewal, even the spuds seem to have got that sorted out — renewing long before time, and not paying out hefty wages either — I believe Kane is their top earner on # 125k, and for someone with an economic degree, how does Wenger not understand that having someone with a long contract makes not only financial sense, but sense in terms of the teams stability as well?

It is not only the Germany international star that needs to pull his socks up for Arsenal and put in the sort of performance we know that he can, but as he is among the club's top earners, if not the very top as some sources have suggested, as well as having the reputation of being one of the best creative footballers on the planet, you can understand why people expect more from Mesut Ozil.

Surely we should ask if it's fair that the maximum amount that you can get on housing benefit is set at a level that only the top five per cent of earners would otherwise be able to afford.

After all, some in the press had suggested that the Labour leader would struggle to oppose a measure that only penalised the top 15 per cent of earners.

A new 50p top rate of income tax for high earners proposed by Labour should only be a temporary measure, Chuka Umunna said.

Also, Lord Browne's report «Sustaining a Future for Higher Education», which recommended graduates should only begin to repay tuition fees when or if they earned # 21,000 or above, estimated that only the top 40 % of earners on average would pay back all the charges paid on their behalf and that 20 % of the lowest earners would pay less than today.

«It punishes the poor for being poor, it punishes the middle class for living in a society that does not protect them and it rewards those who already have it made by either growing up white, growing rich, or growing up in a state that protects only those who are in the top quintile or in some cases the top one percent of income earners.»

Lord Browne said the new proposals meant that the bottom 20 per cent of earners will pay less than under the current system and only the top 40 per cent of earners would pay back close to the full amount for their degrees.

Not only did all four new wide releases fail to crack the top three, but the vets that trumped them weren't even particularly high earners.

It was easily Miramax's top earner for 2006, even though the studio only handled distribution on this continent.

For example, a recent Economic Policy Institute study showed that top earning households account for 72 % of total savings in tax - advantaged retirement accounts, compared with middle - income earners at only 8 %.

His goal is to make the opportunities that typically are only available to the top income earners, available to everyone, especially military and ex military members.

Maine adopted, and then repealed, a 3 percent surcharge on high earners in 2017, which would have resulted in a top marginal individual income tax rate of 10.15 percent, eclipsed only by California's 13.3 percent top marginal rate.

On the downside, the top 10 auction performers over time continue to earn a fraction of the top male auction earners, and only four — Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, and Berthe Morisot — had works that even ranked among the top 5,000 lots of 2013.

Not only has economic growth been anemic, but what growth we've gotten has not been inclusive, which means the top earners continue to receive an outsized share of the income gains as they have for the past 35 years.

The findings show that only 10 % of respondents work in firms with pure lockstep structures, compared with 27 % in firms with pure merit systems and 23 % in firms keeping aside part of their profits for rewarding top earners.

According to research by Deloitte, results from the six years to the end of March 2014 show fees per fee earner growth of 18 % among the top 10 firms, whereas firms ranked 26 - 50 reported growth of only 1 %.

Their research — «Gender and the Tournament: Reinventing Antidiscrimination Law in an Age of Inequality» — uncovered the amazing (or not) fact that U.S. women in the top 95 per cent of earners make only 73.8 per cent of men's take - home pay.

Just four per cent of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are women and only 8.1 per cent are among the top earners.

While Republicans posit that the sum $ 1.5 trillion in tax cuts for corporations and top earners will trickle down to middle - class workers, the bill's many vocal critics argue that cuts at the top will only further enhance the wealth of shareholders and executives.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten told the ABC that he would support the levy only if it is applied to the top 20 per cent of wage earners with a taxable income higher than $ 87,001.