In Michigan, Democrats also are concerned about Snyder's tax hike proposal, mostly because of its impact on the state's low-income residents.
Verizon Wireless's fee hike didn't rise to the same franchise-shaking level, but it nevertheless riled consumers.
The SNP has been making that case in opposition to the UK government's tax hike this year.
"This is just a sort of ambit claim to get Foster's to hike the price, " said ABN Asset Management analyst Matthew Hoult.
"If you manage to keep the electricity usage to 300 kilowatt hours each month, Tepco's price hike wouldn't affect you too much, " she explains.
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Thursday's rate hike will put further upward pressure on the yuan.
She said the government's VAT hike had "hit pubs hard" by adding 5p on to the average price of a pint, and 2p on a can of beer in the supermarket.
Past these points on the island, it's a hike around rocky cliffs and through jungle paths to more secluded beaches, including Shark Point to the south and the beautifully isolated Turtle Beach to the north.
Take Clinton's proposal to hike in defense spending by nearly 7 percent, the biggest increase in the Pentagon's budget since the Reagan-era military buildup of the 1980s.
The solid trends established in 2004 and 2005 are intact for now, with inflation and a 2010 U.S. tax hike the key risks.
Britain's plan to hike social taxes rather than use a market approach to medical insurance, along with other planned changes, won't aid corporate retention or invite foreign investment.
One of the first to tell it was Tracy Martin, who initially addressed reporters last March 8, trying to raise the case's profile and hike pressure on authorities.
To the frustration of their core supporters, the Tories have not promised to reverse the government's income-tax hike for high earners.
The dollar is also recovering from the European Central Bank's interest-rate hike to 4.25%, from 4.00%, last week (See "ECB Stomps On Inflation").
That's like your grandfather's 5-mile hike to school through hip-high snowdrifts.
In the short term, he says that the Federal Reserve's continued campaign to hike interest rates could bring on a recession or act to ignite inflation, rather than to dampen it.
It's recommending a huge hike in London weighting to tackle recruitment and retention problems in some key services, and the former Mayor of Islington, who commissioned the study, says all levels of government have a responsibility.
But critics of the plan, notably the general aviation crowd on whom more of the burden would fall, complain that the FAA's financing proposal would hike taxes, reduce congressional oversight, and spawn a massive bureaucracy to track and tax the use of air traffic control.
While Bernanke's rate cuts threaten to drive the dollar lower and hike inflation, it's more critical that he avoid the dangers to the economy from the credit-driven meltdown, says Jeffrey Rosensweig, an economist at Emory University.
But Mr Brown's other big tax-hike, sharp increases in fuel duty, have proved to be much less stealthy.
When both of these are potentially in the public eye, that creates understandable concerns that a rogue agent could hike someone's rates without consent -- even the email address BT uses to confirm changes is only chosen on the spot, which could keep the change a secret early on.
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The company's broker has warned the law could mean a rate hike of 30% to 40%, and "that's not something I want to pay, " said Don Fornes, chief executive of Software Advice, based in Austin, Texas.
But boosting the Medicare reserves also appeals to Mr Gramm's fiscal hawkishness, for it might stave off a tax hike early in the next century, when the programme's costs will rise as the number of retired people grows.
Perhaps it's body heat produced by the hike, but at first it doesn't feel all that cold, either.
Analysts said the majority's view suggested they would not hike unless demand-side pressures, such as wage increases, became a problem or in the case that mid-term inflation expectations deteriorate.
Now Bucksbaum will hike his company's debt ratio from 56% to 70% and drive down its interest coverage (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization divided by interest) from two to 1.6 times.
Despite media hype regarding the U.S. debt limit wrangling in Congress, most traders and investors reckon a debt-limit-hike agreement will be reached before the U.S. government defaults on its payments.
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Fed funds futures even discounted a rate hike at next month's regular Open Market Committee meeting.
The state would raise this money from property taxes, triggering the largest property-tax hike in the city's history.
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi --- a former tobacco lobbyist -- also recently approved a 277 percent hike on his state's cigarette tax.
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