Sentence examples for state burden from inspiring English sources

Jeffrey Bennett, author of "Math for Life" and numerous other books, reported that he paid 26.8 percent of his adjusted gross income in federal taxes, topping my 24 percent rate, but because he lives in Colorado, his total federal and state burden is lower than mine though still far higher than Mr. Romney's.

"[Trump's] style does not line up well with the political culture of the state," Burden said.

"My job is to create jobs," he said, looking into the camera as he addressed a state burdened with the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

This program should be fully financed by the federal government, thereby alleviating states' burden during the recession.

The federal government responded with a series of relief programs, the most far-reaching of which, of course, was Social Security, which provided for not only old-age pensions but federalized unemployment insurance to relieve the states' burden.

Whether such efforts will significantly ease the states' burdens may depend on the courts.

They come to Yemen, poorest of the Gulf states, burdened by promises to help relatives in Somalia.

It creates an obligation on states to protect those refugees who arrive on the territory of a state ("asylum"), but it provides few clear obligations to support refugees who are on the territory of other states ("burden-sharing").

But most of the states burdened by such obligations are run by dictators.

The problem is what to do to "reform the reformers" which the Obama administration is feebly attempting to accomplish by giving "waivers" to 10 or more states burdened with the No Child Left Behind limitations.

Our dangerously growing state debt burden alone is proof enough of that.