Sentences with phrase «wealthy pay more»

Includes a progressive rate structure so that the super wealthy pay more.

Dig under the rhetoric over taxes in Washington now, and you'll find one question: should the wealthy pay more in taxes than other people?

It's only fair the wealthy pay more out of their millions and billions of dollars to subsidize the rest of us who need it the most.

There seems to be total opposition against the wealthy paying more to sustain services in the state.

Not exact matches

When Trump announced his tax reform plan, he said, «We're reducing taxes, but believe me, there will be people in the very upper echelon that won't be thrilled with this,» suggesting that through eliminating deductions that the wealthy often use, the rich would pay more.

President Obama's convincing victory in the electoral college came in part from his promise to make the wealthiest Americans «pay a little more.»

Separately, some Republican senators were questioning the repeal of a 40 percent inheritance tax levied on estates worth more than $ 5.5 million, or $ 11 million for married couples — a tax paid only by the wealthiest American taxpayers, or about 0.2 percent of Americans, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research and policy institute.

On pp. 19 - 21, Michael McCullough explores Warren Buffett's argument for why wealthy Americans like him should pay more taxes — which raises fundamental questions about distributive justice, freedom, and property rights.

Or, more specifically, it paid to publish a full - page letter from former HP employee and director Tom Perkins, who just last year compared the «demonization» of America's wealthiest individuals to Nazi Germany's war on Jews.

Without significant increases in corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy, it is now a virtual certainty that ordinary Canadian families will never enjoy the generous social programs enjoyed by most European families: enhanced maternity leave benefits, livable minimum wages, legislated paid vacation time of up to six weeks a year, genuine unemployment insurance, home care, pharmacare and more.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

In 1966 the 6 - volume report declared that fairness should be the foremost objective of the taxation system; the existing system was not only too complicated and inefficient, but under it the poor paid more than their fair share while the wealthy avoided taxes through various loopholes.

The wealthy, paying more taxes, would nevertheless share in the benefits of an efficient taxation system.

During his speech, he explained to the crowd that if the Liberals were elected on Oct. 19, that they would raise taxes by asking Canada's wealthiest income earners «to pay just a little bit more.»

It's a perfect response to the nastiness of the tax plan being pushed by the GOP - controlled Congress and a way for the state to help middle - and low - income families by making wealthier individuals pay more.

The dividend cheques were almost a ritual — a very obvious second income stream for the wealthy and aspiring classes — and something appealing has arguably been lost now that dividends are more usually paid directly into our electronic share trading accounts.

It costs the same to defend one American as it does another, so why should wealthy Americans pay more for these services?

And we could start paying for it by asking the wealthiest Americans to contribute a little bit more.

When did it become immoral and un-Christian for 60 % of the people in the USA, and their leaders, to ask that the wealthy pay 3.9 percent more in taxes on income greater than $ 1,000,000?

The «wealthy» already pay more than their fair share of taxes.

In the Roman empire the collection of taxes was farmed out to wealthy men who could pay well for the concession and then exact enough more from the people to make a high profit.

They know that if they start asking the wealthy to give more money, the wealthy will hit back by demanding churches pay taxes and share their wealth as well.

The wealthiest residents in one of the country's richest boroughs will be asked to pay a voluntary «tax»... More

Council leader Nickie Aiken said the scheme was developed after wealthy residents said they wanted to pay more.

In Indonesia, China and elsewhere, consumers aren't wealthy and couldn't afford to pay more for cattle from Australia.

- Robben and Ribery are too old — , Inter — Have a wealthy new owner and need to rebuild --RRB-, who would be more than happy to pay him more than 200,000 a week.

It's still unclear exactly how wealthy Li is — he took out a $ 300 million loan from Elliott Management, an American private equity fund, to help pay for the club — but so far this summer, Milan have spent more on transfers than any other club in Europe.

There always seems to be enough money in Washington to pay for more pointless wars, or to provide subsidies to wealthy agribusiness interests growing corn.

An in - depth look at the study you claimed to have read would have shown you that of the home birthing women 92 % of the women were white 58 % had completed 4 or more years of college and 64.4 % of the these mostly married technically healthier and probably wealthier than average women could PAY their midwives out of pocket... these women are not representative of national averages.

Their inability to do either means that the poor often pay more for the same goods that wealthier households buy.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

Additionally, taxes like the inheritance tax (taxing money you pass to your descendants) and property taxes (directly taxing your held property yearly) operate on a similar formula, meaning that the more wealthy people pay more both as a matter of percentage and absolute value.

«The results clearly show that the public overwhelmingly wants the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay more than they pay now and that they are not currently paying their fair share.

«If they are wealthy, we encourage them to pay more».

Given the events of the last two weeks, I imagine Republican donors are less concerned with the polling numbers and more concerned with the impression the Republican campaign is giving of being completely inept, particularly in light of the revelation that Romney's staffers are paid more to achieve less than their Democrat counterparts (though Rachel Maddow shared an amusing story this week suggesting that wealthy Republicans had no problem throwing money at a sinking ship [skip to the 2 minute mark]-RRB-.

But Lynam says she's encouraged by news, rumored for weeks and reported Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal, that the governor is considering a change in the state's tax code, which could result in wealthier New Yorkers paying more taxes.

A coalition of the NAACP and other groups is filing a class - action lawsuit arguing that the New York City property tax system is biased to make poorer, homeowners of color pay more than wealthier, whiter homeowners.

It's time for Albany to give New York the home - rule right to ask the wealthiest to pay just a little more in taxes...»

A party that claims we're all in it together and yet refuses to ask the wealthy to pay even a penny more in tax towards the on - going fiscal effort.

«This budget was an opportunity to reverse the loss of 30,000 after - school seats cut over the past several years,» de Blasio said in a statement, adding that without asking the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay more in taxes, the budget «affirmed a status quo that continues to leave working families behind.»

The states have relatively high taxes, and the loss of the deductions will mean middle and upper middle class residents, and wealthy residents will pay more in what Cuomo calls «double taxation.»

The states have relatively high taxes, and the loss of the deductions will mean middle - and upper - middle - class residents and wealthy residents will pay more in what Cuomo calls «double taxation.»

One question focused on possible reasons to vote for «Woodstock,» citing reasons like fighting to improve the economy by taking on big businesses and monopolies, pushing for campaign finance reform, increasing education funding, changing the tax code to require the wealthy and large corporations to pay more and raising the minimum wage.

«These are merely the first steps we're prepared to take in order to shine a light on this shameful Trumpcare bill and reveal to the public the GOP's true intentions: to give the uber - wealthy a tax break while making middle class Americans pay more for less health care coverage.

«People who are very wealthy, particularly payers of capital gains tax, people on very high incomes who get substantial income relief under the income tax system should pay more, in order that poorer people and indeed people on middle incomes are lifted out of tax altogether.»

The stories of judges becoming very wealthy on bribes paid by litigants in election petitions and other high profile cases have become more pervasive and in matters of the sanctity of the judicial process, appearances are at least as important as the substance.

«I am clear that the wealthy should pay more which is why in the recent budget I increased the tax on very expensive property transactions,» Osborne said.

He has reduced the corporate tax rate, while the W.F.P. believes that the wealthy should pay more to fund social programs.

Let's be clear about what the Congressional Republican tax plan really is: It is Washington's culture of soft - corruption at its worst - nothing more than paying back wealthy donors and lobbyists through corporate welfare, at the expense of the middle class.

«It is unfathomable that the Senate GOP wants to ask middle - class and low - income workers to pay more money for less coverage, all to cut taxes for insurance companies and the wealthiest among us,» the New York Democrat said in a statement.