It could cut the tax rate on food and reduce proposed income-tax cuts to make up the revenue shortfall, or simply cut government spending across the board.
He has backtracked on proposals that have met strong resistance, such as levying value-added tax on food and medicines.
This is unfortunate because it would be difficult to devise a more regressive food tax on the poor and the elderly than the one promised by Proposition 37.
Between the commitee's report in April and then, Mr Howard will be busy doing deals with Mr Harradine and others in the existing Senate to get his original plan through, with a tax on food and all.
Because U.S. food servers are required to pay income tax on the value of the food, many servers need an 8% tip just to break even.
As shown in a prior note to clients, the bottom two quintiles of U.S. citizens spend 30%-60% of their after-tax income on food and energy.
One of the papers said steps such as a tax on unhealthy food and drinks and traffic light labelling on food would be so beneficial for health that they would save money in the long run.
The Democrats, a small, leftish party, support the tax but not on food.
So Ms Gordillo came up with an alternative plan, involving a tax on the production of food and medicine.
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And since then, here in Ohio, nearly 2, 400 small businesses have gotten loans to keep their doors open and their workers on payroll, 4.5 million families have gotten tax cuts to help pay their bills and put food on the table, some 450 transportation projects are underway or have been completed, and more than 100, 000 Ohioans are at work today as a result of these steps.
For example, those at the top of the economic food chain benefit from low tax rates on capital gains and dividends, as well as the exemption for gains on assets transferred at death.
Rob Vingoe, from Berryman's bakery which has four shops in Cornwall, said rising food costs were "more of an issue" than the so-called "pasty tax" of 20% VAT on hot food.
Politically, governors and mayors find that exhorting voters to go on a diet is far easier on the stomach than, say, pushing a soda tax or junk-food ban.
It consists of people who need the extra tax money to pay for the heating bill, put food on the table, and buy gas to commute to the nursing home to see their parents.
The ministry said one of the effects of the fat tax was that some Danes had begun crossing the border into Germany to stock up on food there.
Mr Balls drew MPs' attention to previous U-turns on changes to the rules governing tax relief on charitable giving, and imposing VAT on static caravan sales and hot takeaway food.
The Democrats will argue that there is room for revision: among 23 rich countries which also tax consumption, only four, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand and Norway, do it on food at the full rate.
But there are other measures that the government can and should take, including ensuring that the regulations we pursue appropriately protect Americans -- their food and water and air -- but do not unnecessarily impinge on businesses, and things like the payroll tax cut that the President talked about today.
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