"average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... it's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical american family received from the bush tax cuts."
"average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... it's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical american family received from the bush tax cuts."
hillary clinton
nov 19, 2007 ... as a result, average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs, for electricity, home heating, and gas. that's a huge increase. it's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical american family received from the bush tax cuts. i talk to a lot ...
sep 8, 2015 ... tuition at a private university is now roughly three times as expensive as it was in 1974, costing an average of $31,000 a year; public tuition, at $9,000, has risen by nearly four times. this is a painful bill for all but the very richest. for the average american household that doesn't receive a lot of financial aid, ...
are unlike traditional economics numerical multiple-choice questions, and so also reflect ... 7. "note that the percent change in the gdp deflator is being used as the measure of inflation rather than the more familiar cpi. the gdp deflator is a price index that .... index (the gdp deflator) rose from 110 last year to 120 this year.
tax expenditures technically reduce the amount of taxes paid, but they resemble direct spending programs more than they do typical tax laws. ... in perspective, one year of tax benefits for owner-occupied housing costs more than the discretionary budgets of the departments of education, homeland security, energy, and ...
jul 25, 2016 ... these are the poorest working americans. full-time wal-mart employees earn an average of $13.38 an hour, according the company. based on a 40-hour work week, that equates to about $27,000 a year—just over the cut-off for this group. the working poor would enjoy only a slight tax cut under clinton's ...