Sentences with phrase «wealthy corporations make»

«Under this bill the working class, middle class and upper middle class get skewered while the rich and wealthy corporations make out like bandits.

«The wealthiest Americans and wealthiest corporations make out like bandits, while middle class Americans are left holding the bag,» he said at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol.

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It and other dark money groups can serve as conduits for anonymous donations from corporations and other wealthy special interests to flood elections, making it particularly dangerous to democracy.

«Unfortunately, the Tea Party - controlled Republican Congress is making every effort to turn back the clock on decades of labor achievements in favor of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest one percent of Americans.

Tax returns of major corporations and wealthy elites should be made publicly available so that public sunshine may persuade some to end their darker practices.

Much of Connecticut's rainy day fund depends of a volatile source — the sometimes higher than expected revenues generated by corporations and the state's wealthiest residents, who make money on Wall Street, and file quarterly returns, Lembo said.

He's made passing references to «wealthy donors» three times in his past five addresses, but goes all - in with that line of reasoning this time around: we have contribution limits to make sure elections «are not captured by wealthy public interests,» he says; «wealthy individuals and corporations are able to use Limited Liability Companies» to avoid these limits, so reform is needed «to even the playing field so that rich and poor New Yorkers alike have their voices heard.»

«Films can do many things, they can entertain, terrify, they can make us laugh and tell us something about the real world we live in - sorry it's early for a political speech - and in that real world it's getting darker and in the struggle that is coming between rich and poor and the wealthy and the privileged and the big corporations and politicians who speak for them.»

We will uncover persons of goodwill including former students, self - made wealthy hands, and we will aggressively compete for endowment money yearly, engage in direct solicitations, promote fundraising events, and undertake international visits to private citizens of Nigeria nativity, African American backgrounds, wealthy persons and corporations across the globe.

Progressives believe the probability of federal cuts in social service funding to the states makes it more important that New York fills the coming gap, in part, by taxing the wealthiest residents, some of whom are seeing big cuts with the new federal cuts for sole proprietorships and corporations.

This scheme will use taxpayer money in the form of tax credits for corporations and wealthy donors who make contributions to state - sponsored voucher scholarship programs.

Though it claims to be nonpartisan, the membership of this influential group is made up of mostly right - wing politicians in legislatures all over the country who propose «draft» legislation promoting tax benefits to corporations, banks, and the wealthy.

The problem with granting 700 tax breaks to wealthy corporations, besides the fact that these billions in tax breaks make it impossible to fully fund our schools, is that these tax breaks create a non-uniform system of taxes whereby local homeowners pay a much higher percentage of taxes than wealthy multinational corporations.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

Doesn't it make perfect sense for less wealthy folks to adopt a strategy that has been proven protect and grow the wealth of the wealthiest individuals and corporations?

We are working to make sure the GCF does not fund dirty energy, and that it does not become an institution dominated by multinational corporations, wealthy countries, or Wall Street investors that would leave critical, yet unprofitable, climate priorities by the wayside.

But if anyone could afford to make a bigger and earlier switch to Non-carbon energy use it would be the richest 1 billion people (and the corporations / government they might work for)-- these «wealthier» people also have «the pull» to tell those who they buy stuff from that fossil fuels is not an option in their supply line anymore.

Doesn't it make perfect sense for less wealthy folks to adopt a strategy that has been proven protect and grow the wealth of the wealthiest individuals and corporations?

But the deficit increase that will follow the tax cut — a giveaway to corporations and the wealthy — does make Ryan's dream of a large - scale reduction of public benefits more likely.