For example, the state of Washington has no income tax, but a minimum state and local sales tax of 7%.
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The People, Companies and Organizations below, have agreed to offer no less than the minimum state wages to all their employees and to abide by the laws set forth by the U.S. Department of Labor.
He believed in a free market and the minimum of state intervention, now the orthodoxy of our times.
Under the classical gold standard economic growth, international trade and global capital flows flourished with a minimum of state intervention.
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As a consequence, the minimum combined state and local sales tax as reported by the Sales Tax Institute was used in this analysis.
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Additionally, 30 states have raised their tipped minimum wages above the paltry federal rate, and seven require that tipped workers receive the full state minimum wage.
In Tampa, hundreds appear to have received tickets because a busy yellow was set at three seconds when the state minimum is 4.5.
These include one measure to delay the age of retirement on full pension for women, another to abolish the state minimum pension and replace it with a sliding scale, and a third to reform health schemes run by trade unions.
After an initial period, they can all fall to a minimum rate under the state law where they are sold.
Not enough is coming into the coffers to pay half-decent wages and cover the minimum capital investments the state must make.
There can and should be a debate about what the scope of the Indian state should be, but at a very minimum, most sensible people can agree that any state must be able to do at least four things: raise revenues, adjudicate disputes, uphold law and order, and provide public goods.
Iris Pace (ph) lives in Indiana, where the state and federal minimum wage is equal.
At Bloomberg's urging in 2007, the state passed mandatory minimum sentencing laws for gun convictions.
States that had no state-level minimum wage were most affected by all three stages of the federal minimum wage hike.
In addition, raising a state's minimum wage does not require tax increases, since the exchange is between employers and low-wage workers.
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International financial institutions like the IMF have consistently warned that Guatemala must increase its tax base to allow the state to sustain minimum levels of social spending.
Professors Even and Macpherson address this by using variation in state-level minimum wages to estimate the impact of the federal minimum wage hike on legal minimum wages in the states.
Possible tipping point: The alternative minimum tax, which makes state and city taxes nondeductible on federal returns, finally catches up with New Yorkers and the pampered municipal employees who ride on their backs.
Jim Powell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, explains how William Gladstone in the U.K. and Warren Harding in the U.S. got it done: by keeping the functions of the state to a minimum.
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The good news for other Regis rivals is that Franklin plans to compete in only two individual meets this year, the minimum required to qualify for the state championships.
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The minimum wage (the floor for state pensions) is going up by 11% this month, more than inflation (though less than the 30% demanded by some of Mr Cardoso's allies).
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The facts are otherwise: The most rigorous research over the last 15 years, including studies across state lines with different minimum wages, has found that higher minimum wages do not result in job loss, even for minimum wage increases during weak economic periods.
John Engler of Michigan says that, at a minimum, governors should also screen the state delegates who serve on this committee.
And it can be impossible without a state that operates at a minimum level of efficiency, which many tropical countries fall short of.
So will the maximum contribution for both pensions and unemployment insurance, and the minimum salary needed to opt out of state health insurance.
Lyons said the state averages between five and seven minimum security walkaways a year from its three halfway houses.
It recommended that the federal OSHA be given authority to step in and take over some inspections when a state plan isn't meeting minimum requirements.
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However, it argues plausibly that these problems have now been tackled through tougher regulation--and points out that the state would continue to guarantee the minimum pension.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has argued the state is in compliance with the court order because the city and state have increased spending beyond the minimum required for New York City.
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