This is Donald Trump's world now, and it remains unclear whether he will make it a wealthier place
with big tax cuts, or wreck it with border taxes.
Not exact matches
As part of that
bigger deal, he said, Republicans would be open to additional revenue, so long as it was paired
with deep spending
cuts and didn't come from higher
tax rates.
There is considerable debate in Washington about who would benefit most from the
tax cuts,
with Republicans asserting they would help the middle class and Democrats insisting that wealthy Americans would be the
big winners.
So while most groups see a
tax cut in 2018,
with the
biggest gains going to the rich, by 2027 the bottom 95 percent gets very little,
with the gains intensely concentrated at the top.
Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer, recently estimated that an aging population — which means a smaller
tax haul and
bigger health and other outlays — will leave Ottawa and the provinces
with a $ 46 - billion - a-year fiscal gap to fix by
cutting spending or hiking
taxes.
Giving to charities is certainly a laudable notion, but the idea that you can
cut taxes, reduce gov» t spending, and expect charitable donations to make up for it is taking a
big risk
with people's well - being who really need gov» t assistance.
Big firms are able to afford expensive advisors, consultants and lawyers, while HMRC has few staff members
with deep knowledge of
tax affairs and stands to lose employees and funding as spending
cuts bite in the new year.
And while doing these
big, country - changing things, we are doing everything possible to help people who are struggling
with the cost of living: helping to freeze council
tax for three years in a row; freezing fuel duty;
cutting the income
tax bills of 24 million taxpayers; taking two million of the lowest paid out of
tax altogether.
Governor Cuomo even took his case to the state's
big business leaders.Cuomo offered to sweeten the plan
with tax cuts for businesses.
Stony Point has struggled
with the loss of
big commercial taxpayers over the past decade, forcing the town residents to pay more in
taxes even as the town board
cut services.
To change the dynamics of British politics I suggest
big tax cuts focused on (1) helping businesses expand and (2) helping lower income workers cope
with these difficult times.
Their local election drubbing seems to have redoubled the Tories» ardour for ideological zealotry,
with the Tory Right (and where they go, Cameron will soon follow) now hawking around their demands for even
bigger public service and welfare
cuts (when we haven't even yet had 90 % of the first tranche) which will reduce
tax receipts still further and ratchet up the recession another notch.
«Congress can pass a balanced plan that reduces the deficit
with smart spending
cuts, ends
tax breaks for millionaires and closes wasteful
tax loopholes for
Big Oil companies that are already making record profits,» a woman's voice says in the call.
Trump and six members of his inner circle will be
big winners as a result of the Republicans» vast
tax overhaul,
with the president personally benefiting from a
tax cut of up to $ 15 million a year, research shows.
The Tories» only definite commitment was to
cut inheritance
tax for the richest,
with the
biggest group of beneficiaries in Kensington and Chelsea, including Notting Hill, Brown said.
As long as Osborne comes forward
with big tax reductions funded by small %
cuts in the amount of government waste, I'll be happy.
The members were also vocal about Cuomo's
big push for
tax cuts, protecting charter schools, and the tension they believed he caused
with Mayor de Blasio over pre kindergarten funding.
Most recently the organization went up
with ads in California, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky calling on the Democratic Senate candidates running there to «defend citizens of those states from the massive Obamacare legislation — including its
big government mandates, Medicare
cuts and
tax hikes,» according to a statement on Crossroads GPS» website.
The Chancellor must instead use the Budget next month to set out far - reaching, ambitious plans for Britain,
with tax cutting, house building and
big infrastructure at its heart.
The Tories» only definite commitment was to
cut inheritance
tax for the richest,
with the
biggest group of beneficiaries being in Kensington and Chelsea, including Notting Hill, Brown said.
Factor in on top of that the serious pressure on the DWP to come up
with big additional
cuts in welfare payments to reduce the pain on other departmental budgets and keeping things «progressive», living up to the boasts, making the graphs much pointed to by Lib Dem MPs a reality in a five - year retrenchment that leans heavily on
cuts over
tax hikes... and you see how difficult it will be to secure and hold the progressive mantle through this saga ahead.
«I talked to department heads whose departments are affected and generally, we're comfortable moving forward
with the reduction in personnel and really, it's just necessary in my opinion because the city's
biggest expense is personnel and fringe and we need to keep
cutting and be as efficient as we can in order to mitigate
tax increases.»
Another long - shot challenger, Green Party candidate Kevin Bott, suggests a different approach: Institute a progressive city income
tax to raise more revenue, and demand that state leaders share a
bigger cut of New York's income
tax receipts
with Syracuse and other cities.
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.
But,
with tax cuts on the ropes and health care reform on life support, the White House is apparently poised to launch a
big school choice push.
Four of the five states
with the
biggest cuts in general school funding since 2008 — Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin — have also
cut income
tax rates in recent years.
What the Republican legislative leaders did then — and they along
with McCrory have chosen to do since — is to
cut taxes for the wealthy and
big corporations rather than restore — let alone increase — funding for public education.
The congressional Republicans»
tax plan —
with its call for the elimination of some or all federal income deductions that Californians have taken for state and local income
taxes, sales and real estate
taxes — accompanied by
big cuts to health care spending, could affect the state's economy and budget.
As both the House and the Senate grapple
with proposed carbon -
cutting measures — carbon
taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for
big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to
cut carbon emissions.
It'd be easy to go
with the Atlantic and frame the governor as a hero, but he landed in office by promising to
cut vehicle
taxes and has been in bed ever since
with the state's
biggest greenhouse gas emitter and the world's fifth
biggest corporation, Chevron.
Medical device sales representatives have their hands full
with the medical device excise
tax, new regulations, budget
cuts, and
big name competitors.