And he is now deferring until later in his term plans to eliminate a business tax surcharge, cut income taxes across the board, identify a permanent financing source for open-space preservation and restore higher-education financing to 2002 levels.
When fuel prices started climbing, however, delivery companies started raising their rates and adding surcharges that cut significantly into his profit.
In June, Dow said it would raise its prices as much as 25percentt, apply freight surcharges and cut some production because of soaring energy prices.
If it's between a trivial personal income tax surcharge tax cut and after-school programs, I gladly make the choice for kids.
In the interview, he said he would move quickly to change attitudes about Connecticut among business leaders in the state and elsewhere, by working with lawmakers to cut state surcharges on electric bills, among the highest in the nation.
Despite the divisions on its committee monitoring sanctions, the Council managed to institute a pricing policy under American and British pressure to cut lucrative surcharges on oil sales that Mr. Hussein was pocketing.
Last year, one official said, the Legislature authorized the administration and the Council to cut the surcharge by any amount, but that authority expires at the end of this year.
He says he would repeal all the sales taxes, toll hikes and surcharges imposed by Corzine and cut income taxes as well, while at the same time somehow offering more property-tax rebates — a feat that would seem to defy the laws of economics, if not physics.
Give up a tax cut, pay a surcharge, something.
Steve Strunsky (NYT) TRENTON: TOUCH-TONE PHONE CHARGE A bill approved yesterday would cut a monthly surcharge on phone bills.
