Municipal bonds may have higher credit risks, especially because of lower state and local tax revenues.
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Some people also retire to states with a lower state income tax or even none at all like Florida or Texas.
Over 700, 000 state jobs have been cut over the last four years in an effort to lower state overhead and balance the budget.
To help this bad medicine go down, Mr. Patrick would lower the state sales tax to 4.5% from 6.25%.
The table below provides a snapshot analysis of the short term outlook (through 2020) for domestic (lower 48 state) based capital investment.
From California to the Gulf Stream waters, voters will weigh in on whether to raise (or lower) state taxes through ballot measures on Election Day.
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Unless and this is the fun part you happen to be standing in three (by my count) lower 48 state locations that are opposite land.
Just when concerns about the muni market were easing up following the fiscal cliff debates, muni bond investors now have a new worry: Several states may lower their state income taxes or eliminate them altogether .
Instead of simply expanding Medicaid, a move opposed by conservatives, Walker wants to lower his state's income-eligibility rate and make other changes that he says will reduce the number of people on Medicaid but still cut the number of uninsured.
Fully mature Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software along with energy market integration that has a detailed model of power consumption, cooling, and the ability to manage servers, turning them on or off or putting them in a lower power state, completes the picture and enables the full benefit of a software defined data center to be realized.
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Curiously, unlike other distressed cities, Harrisburg has an unemployment rate that is lower than the state's.
Poor students fared markedly worse than their wealthier counterparts, and their graduation rate was 54% in 2009, lower than the state average.
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New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Lower Manhattan Democrat, and State Sen.
The northern state of Lower Saxony has launched an investigation into allegations that 150 farms had mislabelled their eggs.
On October 3rd the state of Lower Saxony will be host to the official ceremony marking German unity day.
The German state of Lower Saxony issued its own sukuk bond back in 2004--the first European government to do so.
It would have sent a message to lower federal courts and state courts that the judiciary can and should craft remedies through private litigation.
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Students who are residents of the State pay lower tuition rates.
Supplies of palladium are forecast to be tighter overall due to lower sales of Russian state stocks partly offset by slightly higher shipments from South Africa, Johnson Matthey reported.
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Given that corrupt time-serving is common at lower levels of the state bureaucracy, that might be rash or it might just be the germ of a deep institutional change, the creation of a career civil service.
The founding family's controlling shareholding, and a blocking stake held by the state of Lower Saxony, where VW is headquartered, allow it to resist short-term pressures to pull out of any market that turns difficult.
This is exactly the way Porsche, and presumably Mr Piech, want things to be, though they have met resistance from Volkswagen's other major stakeholder, the German state of Lower Saxony, which fears Mr Piech is too powerful.
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Third, Porsche was counting on the repeal of the so-called Volkswagen Law that restricts individual shareholders to 20% of the voting rights, regardless of the number of shares they own, and gives the state of Lower Saxony a veto on major decisions.
Several studies have suggested that the United States, until now anyway, has had much lower levels of welfare state spending and taxation than Europe, because the United States is more ethnically diversified, and there are more people concerned that their taxes will benefit another group.
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When added to Porsche's 42.6% direct stake, and the state of Lower Saxony's 20.0% holding, investors who were shorting Volkswagen suddenly realized that there was only 5.0% of equity left with which to close their positions, or reverse their bets that Volkswagen's shares would fall.
State nurseries tend to have newer facilities, and may have lower overheads if they share premises with state schools.
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It explained that state administered plans could seek lower rates by benchmarking against rates offered by large insurers or the largest insurer in a state, or by compressing rates for older compared with younger applicants.
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It will be dissolved after a new lower house is elected, state-run Ahram reported.
The lower the existing in-state tuition, the more that students are sitting ducks for budget cutters.
And the cost to the state is far lower than for France or Britain.
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