Sentences with phrase «poorer by raising taxes»

He can say whatever he wants, but his actions prove that he is NOT for the middle class and has made them poorer by raising taxes and welfare / foodstamp / disability / unemployment numbers instead of getting America back to work.

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At the same time, the bill is projected to send most of its individual tax breaks to the wealthy, eventually raise rates on the poorest Americans if a future Congress doesn't intervene, and lead to 13 million fewer Americans with health insurance by repealing Obamacare's individual mandate.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

None of us within the Lib Dems, even the socialist ones like me, ever call for effective welfare reforms like, say, raising the income tax threshold to help the poorest by taxing the rich.

And by the way, if it means that the elderly poor can have dentures so they can eat something other than soup, Rob can feel free to raise my taxes.

The tax is heavily opposed by the business community and many Conservatives, however, and Osborne may have to push his colleagues to convince them that raising taxes on the rich is the only way to give the poor a tax cut.

Guido is an unashamed tax cutter who prefers to cut the taxes of the poorest by raising thresholds and cutting the basic rate.

But Reed and Horton questioned the decision to raise the personal allowance by # 1,000 to # 7,475 that Clegg's party had called for to pull poor families out of tax.

De Blasio cites the city's 21 % poverty rate as proof of this, and he campaigned on closing the gap by pushing real estate developers to build or preserve 200,000 affordable homes and creating a universal pre-K program for the poor, funded by raising taxes on those who make a $ 500,000 or more.

Raising personal tax allowances by # 1,000 a year helps the working poor who earn enough to pass the current threshold of # 6,475 a year, but not the unemployed, the inactive or those who already earn too little to pay any tax.

He sought to soften the blow by restoring the state pension link to earnings from next year, raising income tax allowances for basic rate payers and a # 2bn boost for poor families.

The interviews given by leading Lib Dem MPs over the weekend suggest that their narrative at the next election will go something like this: «We have protected the poorest and most deserving by raising the personal tax allowance, providing the biggest ever increase in the state pension, and giving schools a «pupil premium» - more money for every child on free school meals.

In Texas, for example, the most recent school - funding overhaul was financed largely by forcing wealthy districts to raise their property - tax rates and then distributing the proceeds among their poorer neighbors.

Billions of dollars raised by Australia's carbon tax will end up overseas, helping poor countries battle climate change.

The House GOP tax bill is likely to raise the deficit substantially, thereby putting pressure to cut federal safety net programs used by poor people, said Leonard Burman of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Centtax bill is likely to raise the deficit substantially, thereby putting pressure to cut federal safety net programs used by poor people, said Leonard Burman of the nonpartisan Tax Policy CentTax Policy Center.