Sentences with phrase «rich pay fair share»

Continue to follow Governor Malloy's disastrous policies or actually come down on the side of their constituents and make the rich pay their fair share.

CTU rank - and - file members interviewed, endorsed and worked tirelessly for candidates who respect and support public educators, and demand that the rich pay their fair share of taxes.

This theme was echoed by several of the speakers Sunday night, including Rep. Charlie Rangel, who noted the caucus is an historic 49 members strong and seemed to be urging them to stand together and exercise their voting power to make sure the rich pay their fair share.

Kermit the Frog: who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

«We can raise hundreds of billions of dollars by closing corporate tax loopholes and assuring that the rich pay their fair share, so that big corporations and the wealthy take responsibility for contributing to building strong communities,» the party's draft platform says.

«Now they have rolled over for Andrew Cuomo, the latest son seeking to inherit his father's former office, who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

The plan also leaves some decisions up to Congress, such as imposing restraints on wealthy individuals benefitting from the 25 % rate for pas - through businesses and the possibility of a fourth individual tax rate, higher than 35 %, to ensure that the rich pay their fair share of tax.

At the Oct. 19 Delegate Assembly, the first since the summer break, UFT President Michael Mulgrew reported on principals abusing the teacher evaluation system, the dysfunctional Special Education Student Information System and the need to make the state's richest pay their fair share of taxes.

If you asked the average voter whether the rich paid their fair share of tax they'd probably say no.

This would be a graduated income tax leading to the «rich paying their fair share and the poor paying less.»

Not exact matches

To hear Democrats tell it, the country's main budget problem is that the rich don't pay their «fair share.»

Candidate Trump signaled that closing the loophole was critical to restoring fairness to the system: «The rich will pay their fair share» he said in a speech in Detroit last August, adding he would «eliminate the carried interest deduction and other special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors, and for people like me, but unfair to American workers.»

The «rich» pay far more than their fair share... I mean my bonuses are taxed at 38 %, that's crazy, and for what?

With Obama's historic victory in November, I began to dream of a new order — of acres of new wind turbines silently generating clean energy, of sleek bullet trains seamlessly linking our great metropolises, and of a modernized tax system under which the rich would finally pay their fair share.

Read the 1st page on the IRS website, where they state that the rich are not paying their fair share and it's because we keep voting for the ones (GOP) who want to keep it the way.

Oh wait the bridge is falling appart because the rich don't pay their fair share.

Stop worrying about how to make the rich pay their «fair share.»

There Is not much left of the middle class... The Rich need to Pay their Fair Share Pay Up... Charles Bowen Solomon Stone

It is a commonly held belief that the rich don't pay their fair share, or that they pay no income taxes at all because of tax breaks.

«It's time for the richest 2 % to pay their fair share and for our elected officials to strengthen programs that create jobs and rebuild the middle class, while protecting the social safety net.»

«I hope to see them extended so the richest among us pay their fair share,» Wisneski said.

Asking Wall Street and the richest New Yorkers to pay their fair share, beginning with a continuation of the millionaire's tax and a new banker's bonus tax.

Of course the author is right that the rich will seek to avoid paying their fair share, but the role of a politician aiming to create a more equal society is to challenge and pursue them for the contribution they should be making, not to shy away and accept their power and the disfigured society it has brought us.

If we're going to do something about taxes, rich people have to pay their fair share,» he said.

The Conservatives» economic plan will mean unnecessary cuts and the richest getting away without paying their fair share.

Teachout has a pretty bold progressive agenda — get the rich to pay more of their fair share, raise the minimum wage, boost education funding by a lot.

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.»

Bootle MP Peter Dowd claimed the newcomers were copying his own party's policies anyway: «Reports suggest that the new party's «potential policy proposals include asking the rich to pay a fairer share of tax, better funding for the NHS and improved social mobility.»

why is Klein talking tax cuts at a time when many poor need more services we need the rich to pay their fair share, esp since recent immigrants and minorities are suffering from an economy that is not working for them, $ 15 is a STEP in the right direction.

Labor leaders in the coalition, representing home health care workers, communications workers, janitors and maintenance workers, called on Albany to keep the tax to make the state's richest residents pay a fair share.

Allowing tax avoidance for their rich donors and them not paying their fair share.

Hence, it's clear that the rich are already paying considerably more than their «fair share.»

Their plan makes absolutely no effort, whatsoever, to require Connecticut's richest resident to pay their fair share in taxes.

We'll start with AFT president Rhonda (please call me Randi) Weingarten who pulled in a cool $ 543,150 in total compensation over the last year, all the while railing against the rich because she claims they don't pay their fair share of taxes.

I don't begrudge anyone using any legal tactics to avoid paying abusive taxes, but when a person who regularly whines that the rich «should pay their fair share» does it, the hypocrisy meter goes well into the red zone.

Seems to me that since their salary is being paid by taxpayers who in turn pay teachers — most of whom are forced to pay union dues — it is only proper that those who grouse about the rich not paying their «fair share» should show us all that they are being consistent and above board.

Far better that we should get true tax reform, where the clever rich who have hidden their assets from taxation so long, like Mr. Buffett, should pay their fair share.

The poor want the rich to pay for everything, the rich want the poor to pay their fair share, and everyone in the middle would prefer just to stay...

I argued in this Financial Post article in 2011 that Canadians, rich or poor, really don't understand that those contributing to TFSAs have ALREADY paid their fair share of tax when they earned the income to come up with the TFSA contribution.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/nancy-pfotenhauer/2014/05/12/even-warren-buffet-admits-wind-energy-is-a-bad-investment Despite being famous for touting the idea that the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes, investor Warren Buffet seems to be perfectly fine with receiving tax breaks for making investments in Big Wind.

First up, a preview offered to supporters confirms Obama will frame the whole thing in populist rhetoric: How the middle class has got it bad, how inequality is climbing, how we need more jobs, and how the rich should pay their fair share in taxes.

«At a time when we have a record - breaking $ 13 trillion national debt and a growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, people who inherit multi-million and billion dollar estates must not be allowed to avoid paying their fair share in estate taxes,» Senator Sanders said.