Sentences with phrase «wage out of income tax»

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During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

This cutback will accelerate the point at which the program moves into supposed «negative equity» — a calculation that ignores the option of restoring pension funding to the government's general budget, where it would be paid out of progressively levied income tax and hence borne mainly by the wealthy, not by lower - income wage earners as a «user fee.»

I remember speaking to Danny Alexander a couple of years ago and saying that once we reached our manifesto commitment that we ought to then have in the next manifesto a commitment to take everyone on the full - time equivalent of the minimum wage out of paying income tax.

ALBANY — As he begins his sixth year in office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is forging ahead with a plan to combat income inequality that lets him preserve his credentials as a business - friendly centrist: push to raise the minimum wage, and hope it drowns out any talk of raising taxes on the rich.

«To say New York City is going to do it out of income tax from its highest wage earners, and say that upstate and central New York can pay for pre-K out of property taxes, he obviously doesn't understand central New York,» DeFrancisco said.

As one remedy for ringing more revenue out of an increasingly squeezed tax base, Cuomo said he is considering a new employer - paid income tax on wages, a replacement for state income tax that is currently paid by wage earners.