Rather than cut programs to the bone or increase class sizes, several small districts have recently consolidated with bigger districts.
But parents at Waverley said it would have in effect turned the private school into a state-funded school with fees having to be scrapped and an increase in class sizes.
He talks about the need to help the middle class grow, help increase middle-class security, how we need to ensure as a nation that we're investing in education and infrastructure and innovation so that we can continue to grow our economy.
But you will never hear this President say that he is satisfied, and that is why he is focused overwhelmingly on the things that he can do as President and the things he can do working with Congress to increase economic growth, to increase job creation, to increase middle-class security.
Nowhere does Romney propose any sort of tax increase on the middle class at all.
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They act as though the resulting tax increase on the middle class will be catastrophic.
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Some retailers' profitability could suffer as they wait for the spending power of the emerging middle class to increase.
Obama made the tax proposal a theme of his re-election campaign, arguing that it would prevent a tax increase for middle-class Americans.
The Secondary Heads Association said the latest figures disguised the continuing increase in secondary school class sizes, especially for 11-14 year olds.
That is how he debates a Romney tax plan that only cuts taxes on the middle class, repeatedly, with no middle class tax increase of any sort.
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But already we've heard complaints from Democrats, saying this is essentially a tax increase on many middle class families who have some of those more expensive health care plans and are now going to have to pay a tax.
"It is likely that the government will go into the next election having presided over an increase in secondary school class sizes during a period when the government's top priority has been education, " said the general secretary, John Dunford.
President Obama today hosted the Democratic and Republican leaders from both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate at the White House for talks on the economy -- and how to prevent a tax increase on the middle class.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court said the individual mandate -- the requirement that all people have insurance -- is constitutional under the government's taxing authority, and Republicans have jumped on that to characterize the provision as a tax increase on middle-class Americans.
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All this, say critics, would require a large tax increase on the middle-class to avoid raising the deficit.
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Companies like Apex must help school systems get a simple job done: increase or maintain enrollment per class.
And I will not under any circumstances increase taxes on the middle class.
Beyond politics, Congress will likely need to increase taxes on the middle class to make a dent in the debt.
Mr. FLETCHER: I'm not optimistic about any middle class unless we increase the rate of unionization and unless we change the political priorities of this country.
Continuing consolidation among airlines in Latin America, combined with increasing demand, will drive increases in economy fares over 5% and business class fares could increase by nearly 10%.
But business class fares could increase by nearly 7%, as companies are still willing to invest in sending employees on long-haul overseas flights to capitalize on growth opportunities in emerging markets.
But while there has been an increase in the number of class-action lawsuits at the federal level, Theodore Frank, a lawyer who is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.
He said administration councillors would now have to "face their communities" and tell them that school class sizes would increase, road potholes would get worse and vulnerable people would be "thrown on the scrap heap".
It is the clear intent of the Senate Budget that the savings found by eliminating loopholes and cutting unfair and inefficient spending in the tax code not increase the tax burden on middle class families or the most vulnerable Americans who already have sacrificed greatly in recent deficit reduction efforts.
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With supply shrinking, the modest increase in new inflows to the asset class had an outsized impact on demand.
The main component of the current fiscal cliff squabbling, the income border beyond which the tax rate will increase, is clearly not a middle class issue.
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According to the folks at Pew, fully a third of Americans now admit they are either of lower middle class or flat out lower class economic status, an increase of 25% since 2008.
As for the second largest group of non-income taxpayers, the senior citizens, an effort to increase the income tax responsibilities for this class would necessarily require that we place an increased level of income tax on their social security benefits.
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The argument could also be made that delaying construction of the new Ford class of carriers might actually increase the long-term cost of carriers, since the next-generation carrier is designed to reduce crewing requirements by hundreds of personnel, and manpower expenses are the biggest driver of life-cycle costs for aircraft carriers.
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