Sentences with phrase «tax than their opponent»

They might use clever lawyers to pay a bit less tax than their opponent, or they might be making money from some sort of insider - y schemes that indicate corruption.

Not exact matches

Opponents of the state and local tax deduction, which the bill would largely eliminate, argue it's regressive and concentrates benefits on rich states rather than poor ones that actually need the money.

Opponents of the state and local tax deduction, which the bill would sharply limit, argue it's regressive and concentrates benefits on rich states rather than poor ones that actually need the money.

The Post applauded Faso's agenda and says he «understands the need to grow the economy via lower, simpler taxes and streamlined regulations,» while criticizing his opponent for being an «Occupy Wall Street backer» who is a lot less idealistic than she pretends.

Well, none other than Howard Wolfson (now a deputy mayor in the Bloomberg administration) showed up along with a Democratic State Committee member dressed as Uncle Sam at an event held by her GOP opponent, Rick Lazio, to taunt him with her property tax returns and demand that he follow her lead.

After Labour leader Ed Miliband's bruising encounter with singer Myleene Klass on the same issue, an even more formidable potential opponent of his plans for a so - called «mansion tax» on properties worth more than # 2m looms large: Angelina Jolie.

Supporters and opponents of raising taxes — or, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed, renewing the state's existing surcharge on people reporting more than $ 1 million in income — faced off at a Tuesday budget hearing while the Democratic governor lashed out at Republicans in the Legislature.

«I've been paying real estate taxes almost longer than my opponent's been alive, so I understand the struggles that working families are having in this environment as well as seniors on fixed incomes,» Tabone said Monday.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Even opponents of school choice agree that tax credits are more viable than vouchers.

Opponents have said the government's tax reduction should have been extended to also benefit those who earn less than $ 45,282.

Climate change advocates will see it as a way to curb the consumption of fossil fuels, in part by narrowing the competitive gap with renewables; their opponents will see such a tax as meeting a long - held conservative view that it is more growth - friendly to tax consumption rather than the proceeds of work and risk - taking, to be paired with environmentalists» agreement to substitute the tax for the EPA's regulations.

Americans seem to be less shocked than a wee little foreigner such as I that this republic has a corrupt tax collection agency that torments its ideological opponents.