Sentences with phrase «struggles over taxes»

Secondary concerns include the town's response to the recent flood disasters, and deeper ideological struggles over taxes, budget cuts, and the size of government.

Waged in newspaper columns, private meetings with the Chancellor, blog entries, questions to the Prime Minister and think - tank reports, the struggle over taxing capital gains may be a pointer to the future.

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Cuban did not appear to subscribe to those beliefs himself, criticizing Trump over the failed Republican health care push, for lacking a «foundation» for tax reform, and for struggling to develop relationships with Democrats in order to get future legislation passed in Congress.

People queuing up for Mega Millions tickets aren't the only ones salivating over the record $ 540 million jackpot that could be won Friday — some state governments struggling through lean times know a hometown winner would bring a tax bonanza.

Struggling with mobility over a year after a Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis, the community activist brought his wife and 1-1/2 - year old son to Washington, DC for a last - ditch effort to stop the Republican tax bill.

The alums fingered a complicated tax code, an inefficient political system, a struggling K - 12 education system, and persistent pressure from abroad as reasons why the U.S. will become less competitive over the next three years — something 71 percent think will happen.

In fact, the budget released Monday has $ 2.7 trillion lower revenue over the next decade than his first budget projection in May did, a seeming admission that the tax cuts would struggle to produce enough revenue to offset the costs.

When the war was over, he struggled to pay the loan back so he began giving the people higher tax rates.

The del Lago casino in the Finger Lakes is seeking a better tax deal from the state to address its struggling revenue — slightly over a year since it opened.

Stony Point has struggled with the loss of big commercial taxpayers over the past decade, forcing the town residents to pay more in taxes even as the town board cut services.

Mauro's leadership at FPI since 1993 has been essential to its development as a credible and effective advocacy organization that helps to shape the debate over key economic and fiscal issues in ways that ensure a voice for working people — from middle income homeowners struggling with high property tax bills to those families whose breadwinners toil in minimum wage jobs to the involuntarily unemployed.

Their calls come as states and localities struggle with lower revenue and outrage over high taxes.

ALBANY - The del Lago casino in the Finger Lakes is seeking a better tax deal from the state to address its struggling revenue — slightly over a year since it opened.

De Blasio defended the Rev. Al Sharpton amid questions over his unpaid taxes, emphasizing Sharpton's work on civil rights issues and adding that he knew «a lot of good people» who had struggled with tax troubles.

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

The decline in Ken's poll performance comes after a difficult period for the candidate, as he struggled to move on from allegations over his tax affairs.

A property tax «freeze» that will cost the state $ 1.8 billion over three years would give the largest level of relief to wealthy homeowners while diverting valuable resources from struggling schools and local governments.

Local governments and schools in New York State say they are struggling over a property tax cap that will allow what amounts to a zero percent increase in tax levies in the coming year, but Governor Andrew Cuomo said they'll likely have to stick with those rules.

The people here in Missouri are struggling to survive, while Obama and his entourage fly all over the place every week for fundraisers staying at fancy hotels and eating at fancy restaraunts using our tax dollars to pay for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are sick of the democrats and Obama, we are voting republican, that is who we are.

Local governments and schools say they are struggling over a property tax cap that will allow what amounts to a zero percent increase in tax levies in the coming year.

But pressure from the left of the Coalition will spur counter-pressure from its right - as the budget struggle over capital gains tax indicated.

See, e.g., Coleman, The Struggle for Control of Education, in Education and Social Policy: Local Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&raqTaxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&raqtaxes...»).

Between the exorbitant insurance costs, rent, taxes, lawyer fees and employee costs — before you know it, you are just struggling to pay all the bills and are extremely lucky if there is any money left over to pay yourself.

Despite the average selling prices (ASPs) of Chinese solar modules declining 10 % since August and around 30 % over the past year — delivering a timely pricing boost for developers that won projects at low bids and had been struggling with the economics — there are growing concerns relating to transmission, evacuation, curtailment, timely payments and the outcome of the goods and services tax (GST), Prabhu says.

The courts have struggled for over half a century to determine the boundaries between legitimate commercial transactions that may give rise to tax advantages and those that are illegitimate and that run foul of the statutory prohibition on entering into tax avoidance arrangements.

There will be struggles over critical issues including the funding of public services, tax reform, immigration and social integration, and of course, leadership values and qualities.