Several states, including New York, have already implemented similar charges often referred to as "system benefits" or "public benefits charges".
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That money came mostly from a "societal benefits charge" on ratepayers' electric and natural gas bills, and from auctioning off carbon dioxide emission allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which Mr. Christie pulled out of soon after taking office.
But President Bush won a big victory on Medicaid last month, with a law that gives states vast power to reconfigure benefits, charge premiums and raise co-payments for health care and prescription drugs.
Under the new plan, every ratepayer pays a small fee, called a societal benefits charge, in addition to the bill for the power itself -- some of which goes to the energy conservation fund.
In total, about $1 million, or 60percentt, of its annual revenue comes from the authority, known as Nyserda, which collects it from utility customers throughout the state in the form of the little-noticed System Benefits Charge on each month's bill.
But the SBC portion, which stands for System Benefits Charge, helped an entrepreneurial couple in Binghamton revive a foreclosed ice rink, created a $1 million-a-year cottage industry of energy audits for a midsize engineering firm near Albany and has provided rebates to at least 19 laundromats that bought energy-efficient air-conditioners and lights.
These workshops are not strongly dedicated to withholding income taxes or paying social benefit charges.
Personal income tax cuts, certainly, and reductions in social benefit charges.
What matters is its unreasonable taxes on people — personal income taxes, social benefit charges, taxes on individuals' wealth.
He said excluding severance and other benefit charges related to its ongoing restructuring plans, cash expenses were down 14.4% in the fourth quarter of 2008 and down 11.5% in all of 2008.
