Sentences with phrase «upper income earners in»

A proposal that would hike taxes on upper income earners in order to bolster mass transit spending in New York City is «dead on arrival» due to Republican opposition, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Tuesday in Henrietta.

Currently, Flanagan and de Blasio are at odds on a new proposal from the mayor's office that would increase taxes on upper income earners in order to bolster the New York City subway system.

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Hewitt is expecting these «crucial commitments» from a candidate who promised gargantuan upper - income tax cuts during the Republican primary, then said he wasn't necessarily a huge fan of his own tax cut proposal, and then engaged in nonsensical double - talk about whether taxes would go up or down on high - earners.

Weeks later, Cuomo and state lawmakers met in a special session that ultimately shuffled the tax code and kept the surcharge in place for upper income earners and providing a rate cut for middle income earners.

Flanagan has said he is opposed to keeping the surcharge on upper - income earners in place as backed by Cuomo.

To help balance a $ 3 billion deficit in the 2011 - 13 budget, caused by munificent tax cuts to upper - income earners and corporations, Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican lawmakers cut state aid to schools by $ 792 million over two years.

New York was penalized in the report for imposing higher tax rates on upper - income earners, as well as high property taxes.

Mr. Wright, however, was hazier on the details of how to reconcile such a moratorium with Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to construct and maintain 200,000 units of affordable housing, which hinges in part on re-zonings and outlays for upper - income construction that devotes 20 percent new units for low - and middle - income earners — a plan Mr. Wright said he was «very much in support of.»

While his promise to cut taxes, mostly to the benefit of upper income earners, will probably lead to a short - term boost in U.S. GDP growth, it also threatens to leave a significant shortfall in federal tax revenue down the road — as much as $ 6.2 trillion over the next decade.

That, in the middle of the global distribution (where people emit about 7 tCO2e per person per year), we find «the top 1 % earners from Tanzania, the upper middle class (7th decile) in Mongolia and China as well as poor French and Germans (respectively 2nd and 3rd income deciles,» and that, at the bottom of the global distribution, we have, for example, the poorest 7 % of the population of India, (at about 0.15 tCO2e).