Sentences with phrase «progressive city income tax»

Another long - shot challenger, Green Party candidate Kevin Bott, suggests a different approach: Institute a progressive city income tax to raise more revenue, and demand that state leaders share a bigger cut of New York's income tax receipts with Syracuse and other cities.

He said he received positive feedback on his plan for a progressive city income tax to raise revenue.

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Hawkins also would allow cities to institute an income tax, which is more progressive and would require out - of - city workers to help pay for municipal services they use on a daily basis when they go to work.

He also supports a progressive income tax for people who live and work in the city, something proposed by Green Party mayoral candidate Howie Hawkins.

Instead, he asked them to consider his solutions to city problems, which include creating a progressive income tax in the city to generate enough revenue to avoid insolvency.

Cuomo's surrogates argue he has delivered for progressives on other fronts, by brokering the passage of same - sex marriage, renewing most of a 2009 income tax surcharge on the wealthy and, after much back - and - forth with New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, authorizing the money for an expansion of pre-kindergarten programs statewide.

NEW YORK, NY (12/06/2011)(readMedia)-- The New Deal for New York — a coalition of grassroots groups in Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers, and New York City — today joined with allied organizations to support a progressive taxation plan that would create new tax brackets on the highest income earners and generate about $ 5 billion for the state.

Liu, however, is also employing the term betrayal to characterize Avella's lack of fidelity to the Democratic Party and, therefore, progressive issues such as the Women's Equality Act, a more generous minimum wage, and permanent funding for de Blasio's pre-K initiative in the form of higher income taxes on the wealthiest city residents.

The report, titled «In High Demand» and released Monday by Ryerson University's City Building Institute, favours a tax on foreign buyers — similar to the one introduced in Vancouver last summer — but suggests it should be implemented in addition to a «progressive surtax» on expensive homes owned by people who aren't paying income tax, including people with foreign capital.