Sentences with phrase «programs by raising taxes»

Nevertheless, the WFP's overtures presented him with a new dilemma: His «New Democratic Party» platform includes a pledge not to raise taxes and a promise to enact legislation capping future increases in local property taxes that directly contradict WFP tenets which seek more funding for education and social welfare programs by raising taxes on the wealthy.

He has promised to expand pre-kindergarten and after - school programs by raising taxes on high earners.

Not exact matches

The government is called on to bail them out by issuing bonds, and to pay the interest charges either by raising taxes or cutting back spending programs.

Indeed, as reported by the New York Times, states have promoted these tax credit programs to raise funds for private schools, even though the number of AMT filers is relatively small, approximately five percent of all filers.

As recently as 2008, the program's costs consumed only 11.6 percent of payroll, well below the nearly 13 percent raised by the payroll tax and other sources.

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«Why should my taxes be raised, or my son rejected by a medical school that would have accepted him if not for its affirmative action program?»

, «$ 2.6 trillion could be saved -LSB-...] It's possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [i.e., cutting the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.»

The plan requires the support of the Republican - led State Senate, which has already shot down similar attempts by de Blasio, including a «millionaire's tax» that would have raised money for affordable housing programs.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

Districts are restricted in the amount of local revenue they can raise to fund school programs by state property tax caps, which took effect in 2012.

Another pet project of de Blasio's, which would raise taxes on New Yorkers making more than $ 500,000 per year and use those funds to finance pre-kindergarten and after - school programs, was also shot down by Cuomo.

Assemblyman trounces Cuomo's «tax free» plan BY KATHY KAHN Start - Up New York — the economic program the Legislature passed it into law (S5903 - 2013) before it left for summer break — has Assemblyman Kieran Lalor raising a ruckus over its cost.

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.

He would establish single - payer health care and increase aid to both schools and municipalities, gaining money by raising taxes on the rich, ending pro-business tax break programs and effectively re-imposing New York's stock transfer tax, which is currently rebated.

Elizabeth Warren and Eric Schneiderman, who called for stricter regulation and prosecution of of executives involved in the housing bubble; Bill de Blasio, who won a mayor's race by attacking income inequality and promising to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund social programs.

Mujica says if a worker were to get a small raise each of the years, then by the time the payroll tax option is fully phased in, they might be earning the same amount of gross pay as when the program started, so would not see a change in their paychecks.

The mayor ended by plugging his plan to raise taxes the wealthiest city residents to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs.

These programs were restored by Mark in a fiscally responsible manner without raising taxes.

His campaign said this will not lead to raising taxes and the program would be paid by «offsetting reductions» in the insurance program.

«Voters are responding to Bill de Blasio because he is the only Democrat who will boldly break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» the de Blasio campaign said in a statement.

He is the only Democrat who will break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» de Blasio's campaign manager said in a statement.

«We're not asking Albany to raise the state income tax by a penny to pay for universal pre-K and after - school programs here in New York City,» de Blasio said.

Estimates of how much money the current tax system will raise to pay for programs plummeted over those eight days, raising the amount of deficits for this budget year and the two that follow by almost $ 2 billion.

The principal culprit was a series of complicated policy issues — several of which seemingly had little relation to the actual budget — that had been promoted by Mr. Cuomo, including raising the age of criminal responsibility and 421 - a, a lapsed tax - cut program that encourages developers to build housing.

As a result, the Obama administration has proposed increasing «mandatory spending,» which designates money generated by selling federal assets or raising taxes (such as a proposed $ 10 fee per barrel of oil sold and increasing taxes on higher - income earners) to pay for specific programs.

State Superintendent Tony Evers also criticized the expansion of voucher programs at a time when Walker's budget proposes cutting public education by $ 800 million and reducing how much schools can raise from property taxes.

To ward off the elimination of music and athletic programs caused in large part by the exodus to North Valley, Gooding voters scrambled to pass a property tax levy to raise $ 325,000 for the district.

But the court incorrectly reasoned that money exempted from taxation under the tax - credit program was the equivalent of a government expenditure of public funds and therefore «money raised by taxation.»

In Utah, there will never be a voucher program, but not because of any of those provisions — because a different provision of the Utah constitution requires that all money raised by their state and corporate income taxes go to the public schools.

This can be done by raising taxes or cutting back in other programs.

Montgomery County raises funds to pay for the preservation program by imposing a 5 percent tax on the sale of farms taken out of agricultural production.

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.