Mr Samsom's approach has been broadly seen as a nod to the policies of France's recently elected Socialist President, Francois Hollande, who wants to increase spending and raise taxes on the rich.
He says it would raise taxes and increase the price at the pump.
It's doing the same in Colorado, where a law's vague language enabled a harassing complaint to be filed with the secretary of state against a group opposing two referendums that would raise taxes and increase government spending.
And requiring a two-thirds majority to raise taxes makes it far easier to cut spending on programs than to increase taxes on the wealthy.
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But Republicans said they wouldn't raise taxes to stop a tax increase that never should have happened in the first place.
Also, Cyprus will raise its corporate tax rates and committed to increase withholding taxes on certain capital transactions.
The only way to raise taxes under today's income tax is to increase the burdens on working and saving -- just about the last things we should be doing.
So the reason I make that point is you can't ask local elected officials to raise teachers' salaries and cut taxes and balance the budget and increase roads -- at some point you've got to make some choices.
It will massively increase the pressure on Mr Osborne, from both those who want him to raise taxes and cut spending further and from those who want him to alter course in next month's Budget and spend more to try to boost growth, says our correspondent.
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For Democrats, the bill's tax increase makes good on their party's marquee promise in the 2012 election to raise taxes on upper-income Americans and not the middle class.
This optimal tax argument suggests that if we expect government spending to rise as a share of the economy (because of demographics, aging, health care, for example), it would be better to raise taxes now (that is run surpluses) to prevent a much larger increase in taxes in the future.
Reagan's predecessor, Jimmy Carter, was also forced to raise taxes on payroll, Social Security and gasoline -- despite campaigning on the no-tax-increase vow.
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