Low- and middle-income people would pay a greater share of what they earn than rich people.
And he promises not to increase the share of income tax paid by low- and middle-income households.
Family Dollar Stores operates a chain of self-service retail discount stores primarily for low- and middle-income consumers.
Although low- and middle-income households remain financially stressed, upper-income households appear to have weathered the downturn in stronger fashion.
But there would be a government subsidy of up to DM400 a year to tempt low- and middle-income earners.
The president can argue that he had to compromise to protect low- and middle-income Americans from a big tax increase in 2011.
The mayor's affordable housing plan, which will finance and preserve 165, 000 units by summer 2014, is aimed at low- and middle-income residents.
The study authors note that the majority of people flying out of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are traveling to other low- or middle-income countries.
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By the by, Mr Persson abruptly dropped his finance minister's proposal, made only a month ago, to reduce taxes for low-and middle-income earners.
Tax cuts include incentives for small businesses, a one-year fix of the unpopular alternative-minimum tax and tax cuts for low-and-middle-income families, said Sen.
Pastor Gerald Taylor of the Texas Organizing Project, which is aimed at helping low- and middle-income families, would say the trade-off is rather one-sided.
Following the House budget resolution would almost certainly shift more of the tax burden to low- and middle-income households and yield a less progressive tax system.
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Because while most of the taxes are levied on employers, corporations and high-earners (including small businesses), the individual mandate is a direct tax on low- and middle-income Americans.
However, low- and middle-income countries were devastated by the pandemic.
Second, low-to-middle-income customers are ill served because the fixed cost of sales advice finding out about the customer's needs and ensuring that products match them makes them less profitable or inflicts losses.
But unless all of the costs fall on the top 5 percent who benefit from the rate cut, any reduction in tax expenditures must raise taxes on low- and middle-income households.
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In low- and middle-income countries, where public resources are especially tight, regulatory constraints have made it difficult to quickly and efficiently test, approve, and ensure the quality of medicines that people need.
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Throughout the Middle East, the public sector's share of the economy is among the highest in the world, at 32% of GDP, compared with 20% of GDP for other low- and middle-income countries.
Under the bills passed by the House and the Senate, most Americans would be required to purchase health insurance, with the government providing tax credits to subsidize the cost to low- and middle-income Americans.
Democrats tend to favor some direct cash infusions to low- and middle-income Americans in the form of tax rebates, by extending jobless benefits for those out of work, and by making food stamps more available.
The new measure, called a reconciliation bill, also would take additional steps to close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage and to help low- and middle-income Americans purchase health insurance through new insurance exchanges.
Almost half of all pregnant women living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries received antiretrovirals to prevent mother-to-child transmission, and more children living with HIV are benefiting from treatment and care programmes than ever before.
So these funds will be used to buy up and rehabilitate vacant and foreclosed homes and resell those homes with affordable mortgages -- and to provide mortgage assistance and rehabilitation loans for low-income and middle-income families.
Although high-income economies can sustain GDP growth with little increase in energy consumption, this is not the case in low- and middle-income economies, which have historically seen energy demand grow in tandem with per capita income growth.
But if further study confirms that very early treatment can cure HIV-infected newborns, it could spur widespread use of such an aggressive regimen in babies born with HIV, nearly all of them in low- and middle-income countries.
In recent years there have been substantial gains in the number of people receiving life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries, totalling 4 million by December 2008, which represents an increase of 1 million from the previous year.
It then calls for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, eliminating taxes on interest, dividends, and capital gains for low- and middle-income people (money made from investing, basically), and reducing the corporate tax rate, among other tax cut proposals.
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Today, four out of five people with NCDs live in low- and middle-income countries, and the World Economic Forum has identified NCDs as one of the top four global risks and one of the most important threats to businesses and economies.
In what are called low-to-middle -income countries (think the BRICs), the incidence of preventable heart and lung ailments, and diabetes, is rising in tandem with affluence, although Frieden stressed that it is the poor in those nations who suffer the worst health.
Despite the evidence stacking up in front of her eyes, Stacey, like most of the non-profit affordable housing community, was accustomed to thinking of manufactured housing as the anti-solution for the low- and middle-income Americans she had spent most of her career working with.
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