A. I put in a Google search for 'flat rate state pension' and got more than one million hits, not all of them saying the same thing, so I do understand your confusion.
Does he start at a relatively flat-footed state because he's not spent a lot of time in Iowa as a candidate?
The state has a flat 4.35% income tax, as well as a local option income tax.
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Business debt was flat, but local and state government debt grew 4.3% and federal government debt ballooned another 18.5%.
"This really threatens to hurt a lot of families in our state and kind of flat-line our job growth for the next several months, " he said.
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And this really threatens to hurt a lot of families in our state and kind of flat line our job growth for the next several months.
Mr. Megna disputed this, saying that the level of state debt to be issued over the next five years is expected to remain essentially flat, and that the budget doesn't increase the state's debt load, with total debt as a percentage of personal income expected to decline to 4.6% from 5.5% over the next five years.
Democrats there recently led the charge for the state to enact a low flat tax.
Even if the figures are heavily distorted by short-term factors, they suggest the underlying state of the economy is flat, at best.
Both Indiana and Ohio have been aggressively poaching Illinois businesses, especially since January, when lawmakers raised the state income tax to a flat 5% from 3% and the corporate tax to 9.5% from 7.3%.
It will involve merging the state second pension with the basic state pension, to create one flat-rate payment.
State revenues have increased because of a flat tax as well.
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This relatively little-known provision in the law creates an affordable new choice for individuals and businesses by allowing flat-fee DPC practices to compete within the state-based insurance exchanges.
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It's because of appliance and efficiency standards that we've been able to keep our energy usage relatively flat, and considering California is on average a warmer state, that's pretty amazing.
In Thursday trading, State Auto Financial Corp. shares are currently trading flat on the day.
The charge against him alleges that at he locked Ms Findlay in the flat, and allegedly placed the 46-year-old in such a state of fear and alarm that he caused her to fall from the fifth floor window.
But in addition to a flat per-gallon charge, a majority of states levy other taxes, including state, county or local sales taxes, plus various environmental and other charges.
Less encouragingly, two regional reports on the sector, the Empire State Survey and the Philadelphia Fed Survey, were inconclusive, with the former basically flat and the latter down significantly.
Law and Justice opposes the flat tax, is sceptical about privatisation and, though it says it too favours a smaller state, has made expensive promises about fairness and social protection.
Though regulators from the Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC and myriad state and city agencies are all charged with overseeing banks, all were caught completely flat-footed by the troubles that hit the finance industry like a sledgehammer in 2008.
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The report, based on data from the association of State Higher Education Executive Officers, contends that spending per student on public higher education has been essentially flat since 1985.
And Democrats are being caught flat-footed because they ignored the admonition of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean to create a 50-state party, and instead, created a party that cared more about Congress and the White House.
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