Sentences with phrase «so high the government»

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There is no indication in the budget how these numbers are estimated, so I spoke to government officials, who indicated that these are «straight - line» estimates and do not take into account possible behavioural responses by these high income earners.

The British government disputes this, pointing out that Scotland has higher per capita public - sector spending than England and so is more indebted.

These positions are public sector and governments at all levels are facing budget pressures, but even so average salaries are close to $ 100,000 and some go considerably higher.

In 1969, government officials noticed that 155 people with high incomes were legally using so many deductions and other tax breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxes.

Similarly, the average citizen does not see that a large proportion of the benefits they receive is via the $ 60 billion or so the sector pays each year to governments nationwide, without which that citizen would receive fewer services or pay higher taxes.

«So too the Japanese yen, given the active efforts to weaken it through rhetoric, a higher inflation target, promises of future monetary easing, and a government adamant that it can bring inflation back.»

Yet, cranberry inventories in the U.S. have gotten so high that those in the industry are hoping the government approves of a program that would allow them to compost excess supply, according to Bloomberg.

The non-monetary costs of energy production now loom so large that governments are stuck in policy gridlock, unable to approve any new option that could help meet rising demand — with results ranging from higher gasoline prices to the rolling blackouts that Japan is now experiencing.

So it may come as no surprise that the top five highest - earning elected women serving in governments worldwide, as surveyed by British financial service firm IG Group, coincidentally happen to earn less than their elected male counterparts in an all - gender list of of elected, appointed and lifetime world leaders.

Another high - profile project using laser ignition, HiPER (High Power Energy Research facility), has so far escaped funding grief, but with its host government in the United Kingdom slashing spending across the board, this perennial next - year technology makes an easy tarhigh - profile project using laser ignition, HiPER (High Power Energy Research facility), has so far escaped funding grief, but with its host government in the United Kingdom slashing spending across the board, this perennial next - year technology makes an easy tarHigh Power Energy Research facility), has so far escaped funding grief, but with its host government in the United Kingdom slashing spending across the board, this perennial next - year technology makes an easy target.

While the wealthy have always been able to take advantage of alternative high - growth investments, governments barred others from doing so for their own protection.

Part of what has supported this recovery since the crisis has been fiscal policy, so we have much higher government debt than we had before, where is the room for governments to do fiscal expansion in a renewed downturn?

So, the government could actually spend gazillions of dollars and set its rates at 0 % permanently (which might cause high inflation, but you get the message).

If the government can guarantee certain savings in bank accounts through the F.D.I.C., why not establish a program that would require that every employee own a regulated block of stock (Retirement Account) made up of stock in the company the employee works for and, so the employee will not have all his retirement eggs in one basket, include in this retirement basket high rated bonds and stocks from other non-competing employee - owned companies?

Wealth management now delivers higher profits even as new government regulations like the Volcker Rule crimp trading, and it does so without the kind of risk that alarms regulators and investors.

Beginning in the 2018 tax year the federal government introduced a number of changes to the tax code to curb so - called «income sprinkling», a tactic used by some higher - income small business owners to shift income to lower - taxed family members.

The only variables he admits are structure - free: The federal government can indeed spend more and reduce interest rates (especially on mortgages) so that the higher mortgage debt, student debt, personal debt and corporate debt overhead can be afforded more easily.

This belief is so powerfully embedded in the standard equilibrium models most economists use that, strangely enough, even those of us who described the imbalances in one paragraph and in the very next paragraph insisted that a crisis was unlikely — in China's case because of the government's very high credibility and its role as financial guarantor — were automatically assumed to be predicting an imminent crisis.

Typically, a higher - rate environment will increase spreads for banks / insurers, but you're absolutely right that the 10 - year yield could stay flat, especially when the yields for government bonds of other countries are so low.

Keep in mind, if your work passes your claiming age, your benefits may be adjusted for an even higher amount, so will the cost of inflation adjustment, but the government will make that decision.

Interest in bitcoin trade is soaring in Zimbabwe and so is the price of the crypto - currency, which hit new record highs of nearly $ 10 000 earlier this month in a worsening economy that the government is struggling to turn around.

The job growth is fake, there's been no wage growth since 1999, inflation numbers are false, government debt is too high, corporate profits are too low, corporate profits are unsustainably high, companies aren't reinvesting their profits, companies are buying back too much stock, the Federal Reserve is propping up the market, the Federal Reserve is keeping rates artificially low, and so on.

So he's saying that a high - tax state benefits more from this provision than a low - tax state, and in effect gets more back from the federal government than low - tax states.

There is another reason to hiss when the stock market sets its so - called new highs: only the very rich are getting richer, acquiring more wealth to separate you from representative government.

I mean, think about areas outside of the United States that have high inflation rates, if you are a consumer there, in an oppressive regime, you want a way to have more control over your assets and not be at the whim of governments, so that's kind of how it all started.

While much of the outflows so far have been a result of investors switching out of high yield into safer money - market and government bond funds, Gutteridge believes we have seen the bulk of the selling.

Yet by setting yields so low and bond prices so high, markets are sending a clear signal that they want more, not less, government debt.

Since central governments are already effectively underwriting high street banks» credit creation processes, and emoney is spreading like wildfire, why bother with high street banks for the payment function, especially when they charge so much for so little?

But in the last few episodes of sharp stock market drops, bonds went up (US government bonds are a safe haven asset and appreciate in crisis periods) so the only thing better than 3 months worth of expenses in a money market fund is having 3 + x months worth of expenses in the bond portfolio due to higher bond yields and negative correlation between bonds and stocks.

So as the safe haven appeal of government debt reduces while the overall quality of corporate credit improves, it's logical for high - yield credit spreads to tighten.

When I retire I also expect my income to be A LOT higher than it is now despite being retired, so the last thing I want is for the government to be able to tax more money at an even higher rate later on!!!

The federal government also announced it would raise the salary cap so that higher - income earners would also contribute and receive more CPP.

A majority of the Justices went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»

Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Are the fundamentals prepared to take care of a disabled child for the next 40 + years, AND pay higher taxes for the government to do so for a large disabled population?

Planned Parenthood is truly different in so many ways - it is a business paid by the government to sell products that create a profitable backlog of higher ticket sales.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

Far more serious is the corrosion of morality at the highest reaches of government and business of which we have heard so much in recent times.

Specifically, a very rapid expansion in higher education in the United States took place during the 1 960s, and it did so not by some strange magic in the modernization process itself but as a result of conscious planning and huge outlays by the federal government.

And, in the full and certain knowledge that had their campaign been less strident and high profile, the government would not have been under such pressure to meet so many of the demands of Hamas.

Many are hindered because they are mountainous or landlocked so their transportation costs are high; their corrupt or weak governments can't maintain necessary infrastructure; and innovators lack patent protection and the capital necessary to bring their inventions to market.

The Eternal God, so they maintain, coming in weakness in Christ so provoked the evil in man that the official representatives of as high a religion and of as good a government as the world had known committed the greatest crime in history, the crucifixion of the Son of God.

To obtain visas, weapons, intelligence, and so forth, terrorists require the assistance of someone in government, if not the complicity of the highest state authorities.

So, when the Australia - India Institute tobacco control task force held a high - level launch of its policy document on plain packaging at the Press Club in New Delhi, we all waited intently for a response from the government and department of health and family welfare.

I see this argument so often, I think all American adults should be forced back into a high school level government class.

This study, co-authored by Aner Tal and Adam Brumberg, seeks to determine why people — mothers in particular — develop so - called «food fears» about certain ingredients (such as sodium, fat, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, MSG and lean finely textured beef) and what the food industry and government can do about it.

Yes, school meals in France are indeed superior to ours, but that's reflective of a government so supportive of raising good food citizens that it actually provides state - sanctioned «taste training» to all preschoolers, puts warnings on junk food ads, and funds school meals at a far higher rate than our own government.

Their success in doing so, as in nurturing their high value added sectors, may explain why — despite three decades of globalisation — these governments dominate world politics.

While I consider such behavior stooping to their level, I can appreciate why emotions have been stirred up so high and I only hope that somehow, some way, against all odds, this disaster hitting these ideologues personally forces them to reconsider their previously - expressed opinions, walk back their hateful rhetoric, and realize that like the President has repeatedly stated, we ARE all in this together and there IS a legitimate role for not only government, but collective effort on all fronts involving people helping people.