Sentences with phrase «tax wealthy citizens»
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They gave tax breaks to the wealthy while stripping federal help from the poorest of our citizens.
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The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.
If you support a traitor like Rump and you turn your back on the citizens of your state to provide tax cuts for the wealthy that virtually assure that after November the Pubs will be going after Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as being too expensive you should be concerned about a negative response form voters.
Now we give a huge tax cut to the wealthy because Citizens United allowed the wealthy to by a Republican majority.
Rep. Josh Elliott, one of the chamber's most liberal Democrats, told The Courant that he is still undecided because the House Democratic budget has deep spending cuts and no income tax increases on the state's wealthiest citizens.
We vowed not to allow our most vulnerable citizens, like the seniors who rely on senior centers throughout Lower Manhattan, to suffer because of an unnecessary tax cut for the wealthiest among us.
As previously noted, in Connecticut, the poor pay about 12 % of their income in state and local taxes, the Middle Class about 10 % and the state's wealthiest citizen's only pay about 5.5 % of their income in state and local taxes.
For the wealthiest citizens who fall into the 39.6 % income tax bracket, the capital gains rate is still only 20 %.
The surtax would target foreign buyers who don't contribute to the local labour market, as well as wealthy Canadian citizens who have «aggressively evaded taxes,» the report said.
Wealthier citizens can afford to pay the new tax and those who object to the tax can pay off and cancel some of their credit cards.