Democrats are also being asked by committee heads like Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer to join in on, say, transportation-tax bills, at the outset.
Earlier this year he pushed through a transportation plan that included tax increases, considered heresy among fiscal conservatives.
Now, as I was only vaguely aware, there is a federal excise tax on air transportation.
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Their streets and subway cars are aging, and the obvious source of funding for transportation repairs, the gas tax, is drying up as drivers switch to hybrids and high-mileage cars.
It substantially restructures Medicare and cuts Medicaid, food stamps, and transportation infrastructure while reducing the top tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent.
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That campaign included fliers and advertisements from state transportation, motor-vehicle and tax agencies as well as a high-profile partnership with the Boston Red Sox.
In February, the state's Democratic-controlled legislature overrode a veto by Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty of a major transportation funding bill that included a gas tax increase.
Ballantine had pledged to cut personal and corporate income tax rates and to use state transportation funding for roads rather than urban rail projects.
Partnerships are to our income tax system as airlines are to our transportation system.
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The White House even fought to the bitter end for a cap-and-trade bill that the House passed and would have imposed higher costs for electric power, transportation, manufacturing and most goods and services as this tax flowed down the energy chain.
At the top of his list that includes tax breaks, visas for animal trainers and transportation to Disney theme parks, was a request for Congress to help his company's highest priority: HR2589, a bill to extend the soon-to-expire copyright on Mickey Mouse -- Disney's most precious asset.
The U.S. Department of Transportation says the answer to that question would depend on local sales tax law.
Ms. Wylde said the payroll increase is roughly equivalent to the 0.34% payroll tax imposed on all employers in 2009 to help fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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To rank all 50 states, the group focused on a variety of programs, including standards for equipment and appliances, energy codes for buildings and policies for land use and transportation, as well as public spending on initiatives at utilities, tailpipe standards and tax incentives.
While such a breakthrough may come eventually, a tax on gasoline that reduces consumption is a far more dependable way to reduce transportation externalities.
With the Balanced Money Formula, I want less than 50% of my after-tax income to be spent on needs, such as housing and groceries and transportation.
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.
We also incorporated Economy.com's business cost index, which looks at labor, tax, energy and office space costs and its living cost index, which factors in housing, transportation, food and other household expenditures.
Officials from the council (CEA) and the White House have kept mum about the report's findings, but we do know it will address the following issues: productivity growth, pro-growth tax policy, the fiscal challenges facing Medicare, catastrophe risk insurance, energy and infrastructure in the transportation sector, currency markets, international trade and investment and immigration.
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