Sentences with phrase «say small governments»

Lawmakers and local leaders say small governments are cutting back, but need the state to give them some help, too.

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Suffice it to say that the deductions provided by the small business corporate tax structure are extremely rich and the new government proposals are intended to curtail them.

The biggest banks borrow at lower rates than smaller rivals because creditors assume — like Dodge said — that governments always will rescue any institution that is «too big to fail.»

The NBS said investment by the government grew by 11 % year - on - year between January to September, outpacing that from the private sector which grew by a smaller 6 %.

«Simply removing that exemption and putting a set - aside rule in place for all government contract vehicles would significantly increase the pool of contracts available to small businesses,» Reeder says.

Baidu — alongside other companies like Google (googl) and General Motors (gm)-- is also actively encouraging a push for better coordination between autonomous vehicle manufacturers and the U.S. government, saying that it's necessary to make small changes to existing infrastructure and ease regulatory obstacles in order to get self - driving cars on the road.

The federal government says that 23 percent of all government dollars must be set aside of small businesses, and a part of that goes to minority - owned businesses (including women - owned, veteran & service - disabled veteran owned, Native American - owned, Alaskan - owned, and Native Hawaiian - owned corporations).

«Spring Budget 2017 is a critical moment for the government to show it is unashamedly pro-business, and that the Chancellor recognises that small businesses are the engines of job creation,» Mike Cherry, the FSB's national chairman, said in a statement.

Northrop and Orbital's portfolios combine «to offer full scale solutions across the small and large government satellite market, leverage to the commercial market and expansion into the launch services market,» the firm said.

RBS, which is 84 percent owned by the British government, will get 47 percent of the sale price, and expects to report a small gain on the deal, it said.

In a federal government survey in 2010, four out of five small businesses said they had no need to raise money.

«The overall pie of dollars for small businesses is down, but the portion of that pie that is available to small - business owners is up,» Shoraka says of the U.S. government's improved performance from 2011 to 2012.

«The state government has done a good job making sure small business owners are better - prepared since Katrina,» says Renee Amar, the state director for Louisiana for the National Federation of Independent Business Owners.

A Government Accountability Office report says the effort to help small businesses pay for health care is too complex to be useful.

But «when you're talking about small, medium enterprises, there's a little less pressure — the government doesn't see that as having any way to shape the economy, or cause issues with policy,» he said.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Wendy L. Patrick, a business ethics lecturer at San Diego State University, says the order may have the salutary effect of forcing government and small business to order their priorities.

The government had pitched the changes as a way to prevent wealthy Canadians from gaining an unfair advantage and paying less tax, but small businesses said the changes hurt the middle class.

He also said he was considering just appointing leaders to 42,000 barangays, the Philippines» smallest government unit, rather than letting them be selected in elections slated for October.

A Donald Trump presidency, others say, should be a windfall for coal miners, small - cap U.S. companies (because their sales are mostly in the U.S.), and, of course, construction companies that might benefit from a massive government wall - building contract.

But Joyce Reynolds, executive vice-president of government affairs for the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, says just 26,000 (or 2.4 %) of her industry's 1.1 million workers nationwide are temporary foreign workers — most of them found in small communities in Western Canada.

The Small UAV Coalition echoed Johnson's concerns in a November letter to the FAA that said, «State and local governments have no authority to govern or regulate the operation of aircraft, both manned and unmanned, in the National Airspace System.»

«We know that in order to address the range of financial needs within all of our communities, we need to support and work with the ecosystem of organizations that serve small businesses,» said Jon Campbell, executive vice president, government and community relations for Wells Fargo.

Just this month, Justice Minister Peter MacKay said the Harper government is giving serious thought to more lenient pot laws that would allow cops to ticket anyone caught with small amounts of pot instead of laying charges.

I live in a state unfriendly to small business; we can say with certainty federal government barely associates to the small business community.

He went on to say that the agency, created under the Dodd - Frank financial overhaul, is run by «essentially a one - person dictator» and added he had «probably had more complaints about the CFPB in my office, from small local banks and credit agencies, than every other government agency put together.»

Russia might be tapping into millions of home or small business computers and other devices to gain the ability to use them later in a coordinated attack on government computers or critical infrastructure, the officials said.

«In spite of the government shut - down, employment rose among small firms in October,» the NFIB said in a statement.

PIMCO CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer Mohamed El - Erian says uninsured small businesses will suffer the biggest impact from the Hurricane Sandy superstorm that hit the East Coast this week, but they shouldn't expect much government help to recover from the disaster.

«The Chinese government is set to announce a revision of its currency policy in the coming days that will allow greater variation in the value of its currency, combined with a small but immediate jump in its value against the dollar, people with knowledge of the consensus emerging in Beijing said Thursday.»

Having the provinces walk away has allowed the federal government to say that they tried to give the provinces more while reverting to the smaller increases set under the Harper government.

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Quebec Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard says his government would stimulate the province's economy by investing $ 160 million in small and medium businesses.

Quebec Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard says his government would stimulate the province's economy by investing $ 160 million in small and medium - sized businesses.

That said, business owners view executives and government employees as more unfairly advantaged than professionals, while professionals are more likely to be seen as having unfair advantages than sole proprietors and the owners of small stores or service businesses:

The federal government has said that the tax changes it has proposed are aimed at people who fall into the smallest - of - the - small category: many of them professionals such as doctors or lawyers — who incorporated their practices and are eligible for tax benefits available to small businesses.

«The difference between the previous government and our government is that our prime minister recognizes the need that more can be done,» said Government House leader Bardish Chagger, who as small business minister signed off on a $ 69,625 relocation claim by one staffer in hgovernment and our government is that our prime minister recognizes the need that more can be done,» said Government House leader Bardish Chagger, who as small business minister signed off on a $ 69,625 relocation claim by one staffer in hgovernment is that our prime minister recognizes the need that more can be done,» said Government House leader Bardish Chagger, who as small business minister signed off on a $ 69,625 relocation claim by one staffer in hGovernment House leader Bardish Chagger, who as small business minister signed off on a $ 69,625 relocation claim by one staffer in her office.

Ontario Government and Consumer Services Minister Tracy MacCharles said on April 12 in the legislature that there are about 40 small consumer reporting agencies registered in the province.

The government has said the expanded Canada Pension Plan (CPP) will help smaller firms compete with larger counterparts because there won't be as big a gap when it comes to pension benefits, said Kelly.

The top six middlemen now say they would rather hold onto the small - business loans and make money off the interest payments than sell to the government and submit to its restrictions, according to documents and interviews with the firms and their associations.

«Tested, and ready today, to earn back the confidence of families, of millennials, and moms and dads, of urban and rural Canadians, and of small business leaders, and seniors, who want government to be an empowering force for good,» he said.

The Federal Housing Administration, a government agency that guarantees loans with down payments as small as 3.5 %, said earlier this month that it would drop the maximum loan limit in around 650 counties.

They oppose, they say, the «Big Government», rallying for small govt.

A old TV show had a monologue where one guy was talking to another and said that in their small western town, when the government came in the first thing they built was not a jail, or a courthouse.

Republicans say they want small government, what they really mean is they want the public only to play a small part in it.

We are here to tell the government that PGS is the way forward to make organic agriculture more viable, and encourage more small farmers to adopt organic agriculture,» said Ms Carmen Cabling, PGS Pilipinas Chairperson.

«The new system... replaces about 40 per cent of the government meat inspectors with a smaller number of company inspectors,» the union's Nadine Flood said.

Home births rose 20 % over four years, government figures show, reflecting what experts say is a small subculture among white women toward natural birth.

PCS says the government's announcement this morning about public sector pension contributions makes a mockery of the ongoing negotiations and proves that the government is determined to make people pay more and work longer in return for smaller pensions.

The economic perspective is fairly straightforward, the government nets about $ 20 billion (source is from 2014, this number will likely be far less the coming year as Trump's tax bill more than doubled the exclusion amount from $ 5.49 million to $ 11.2 million) from a small amount of people, so opposition by those directly affected is small by comparison to, say, income tax.