Sentences with phrase «tax shell game»

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VICTORIA — More than 500,000 B.C. families will see one of the largest ever medical services premium (MSP) tax hikes on January 1, thanks to Christy Clark's MSP shell game, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

Robert Freier, spokesman for the Oyster Bay Democrats, said Saladino's fee hike proposal, coming after a $ 1.3 million tax cut passed just before the November election, was «a shell game he played when he was running for election claiming a tax cut, and now he's raising fees after the fact to create a surplus.»

But if this isn't the usual shell game, in which city tax revenues spike and Bloomberg saves thousands of jobs just before the July 1 deadline, he really is going to need an assist from Albany.

Instead of regressive fees and fiscal shell games we need a state tax system that's fair to working families.

Lazio should stop playing shell games with his tax returns,» Jacobs said.

The use of tax credits to reimburse donations for private school tuition is a shell game.