Since his election last May, the Socialist president has mixed tax-and-spend measures with efforts to improve competitiveness.
Republican Senate leaders unveiled a legislative agenda today that mixed tax cuts with an unusually wide variety of health issues, showing the influence of Senator Bill Frist, the surgeon who is their new majority leader.
Letwin told Thatcher: "You have an apparent dilemma: a sudden move to residence charges in England and Wales is too dangerous; but a gradual transition via a mixed tax is unattractive.
Rothschild again intervened with what he called Operation Gynandromorph – "I don't know if the prime minister did Greek", he asked before explaining it meant hybrid – involving a new mixed tax based on the square footage of a property and the number of people in the home to deal with the problem of a poor pensioner couple living in overcrowded accommodation.
Journal of Public Economics 17, 181 211], the paper provides a characterization of the properties of an optimal redistributive mixed tax scheme in the general case when the government evaluates individuals' well-being using a different utility function than the one maximized by private agents.
Lars-Erik Hannson, a tax partner at Ohrlings Coopers & Lybrand in Malm, calls Sweden's mixed tax and social benefit payment pattern an "impediment to workforce expansion and to high executive salaries" — this in a country that is currently showing 6.6% in official "registered" unemployment and another 3.9% employed through state-funded "labor market programs".
Polls have showed support for a state budget solution that mixed cuts, taxes, and a spending limit, and this package has all those things.
President Obama released HIS budget plan, which calls for tens of billions of dollars of program cuts mixed with tax increases.
Mrs. Obama mixed policy on taxes and health care with chitchat about Ohio, laughter about her life in politics and tidbits about her family.
But the high taxes, mixed with his wife's discomfort in Denmark, meant that a job offer in Qatar three years ago was all it took to pry him away from Copenhagen.
President Obama is advocating a mixed bag of tax proposals.
