Sentence examples for maintaining current rates from inspiring English sources

The president, for his part, wants to restore the 39.6 percent top tax rate for families earning more than $250,000, while maintaining current rates for everyone else.

The committee concluded that petroleum will continue to be an indispensable fuel in the transportation sector in coming decades, but that maintaining current rates of domestic petroleum production (about 5.1 million barrels per day in 2008) will be challenging.

A budget adopted by the power authority trustees last week maintained current rates and the rate differential between Nassau and Suffolk.

Moreover, over-production can hurt the health of oil reserves, so by producing oil from other sources Aramco can conserve Saudi oil while still maintaining current production rates.

Politicians are loath to do anything to harm the priorities of their favored constituencies, be it spending on transportation or scientific research or maintaining current tax rates and exemptions.

This stands in contrast to many other central banks across the globe who will likely continue to pursue their own accommodative monetary policies by either maintaining current interest rate levels or perhaps even cutting their respective interest rates.

He wants to make a permanent, across-the-board 20 percent cut in marginal rates; to maintain current tax rates on interest, dividends and capital gains; to eliminate the estate tax; and to repeal the alternative minimum tax.

If the elusive deal with Obama fails to materialize, some senior Republicans are counseling Boehner to cut his losses and shift pressure onto the Democratic Senate by giving Obama exactly what he keeps asking for: House passage of a Senate-passed bill that would maintain current tax rates for 98 percent of taxpayers and let rates rise for the top 2 percent.

Trump has previously pledged to greatly increase infrastructure spending and slash tax rates, all while maintaining current entitlement spending.

Republicans, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney, want to maintain current tax rates for another year to give Congress time to tackle more far-reaching reforms — a position supported by the manufacturing association.

If Romney wins the White House, Republicans say, their strategy is clear: They would push to maintain current tax rates through 2013, giving the new president time to draft a blueprint for overhauling the tax code and taming the $16 trillion national debt.