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He split from the party by calling for a lower backpacker tax, opposing the sale of Kidman station to the Gina Rinehart Shanghai CRED joint venture, and calling for a royal commission rather than a parliamentary inquiry into banks.

Ken Loach's appeal to found a new party of the left was greeted enthusiastically by 10,000 people who have since gone on to establish 100 local groups across the country campaigning against austerity and the bedroom tax, opposing the EDL, fighting to save hospitals and fighting for a fairer society.

She's also split with Obama in recent weeks by calling for the elimination of the Affordable Care Act's "Cadillac tax," opposing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and pushing for certain administrative actions on gun control that Obama has not yet taken.

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But the day before, a bill to raise the alcohol tax, opposed by bar owners, stalled.

It seems likely, however, to include a couple of relatively small tweaks to the law, including delay of a new tax opposed by labor unions.

Chandler promised to repeal the unpopular sales tax, lower the gasoline tax, oppose any increase in property taxes, and end the common practice of assessing state employees a percentage of their salaries to be used for campaign activities.

Rather than delay a new tax opposed by labor unions, as the Senate plan would do, the House would delay for some time a tax on medical devices that the law imposes on manufacturers.

Rather than delay a new tax opposed by labor unions, as the Senate plan would do, the House would instead postpone for two years a tax on medical devices that the law imposes on manufacturers.

"But the automakers, while saying they favor gasoline taxes, oppose the idea — which essentially front-loads the cost of a gas tax into the purchase price — because they think it would make their cars more expensive now," Carr said.

A state-appointed committee headed by an economist at Hebrew University, Eytan Sheshinski, is planning to recommend substantially increased profit taxes, opposed by the companies and some on the political right.