Jean Ross

Jean Ross
Jean Iris Rosswas a British singer and writer. She was the model for the Sally Bowles character in the Berlin stories and novels of Christopher Isherwood...
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People have different ideas of what a loophole is. To bring in a lot of money, it has to affect a large number of people and that amounts to a significant tax increase on those people.
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If there is a deep drop in revenues, it is very difficult to accumulate substantial enough reserves to keep spending at the maximum allowed by the cap.
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Over time you should ramp down the program in size.
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The bottom-line difficulty is that many low-income folks don't have money to save, even if they desperately want to.
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The size and scope of the current program undermines its intent.
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If you do an amnesty plan every five years, people will hold on to their money rather than pay taxes, because they know they will be able to pay up without penalties. The fact that we had a successful amnesty last year argues that we should wait at least a decade or probably 20 years to have another.
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The longer I look at the measure, the more I think I don't really know what would be happening.
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We can't really say what benefit the state and local areas have gotten from a billion-and-a-half-dollar tax break.
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You had both Republicans and Democrats saying we need to balance the budget. How can we afford to do this? It really did come down to a matter of priorities. I think the process worked.
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The program is just too large and isn't reaching the communities, businesses and workers it was created to target.
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We're going to put together a corrected list that will run in the newspaper.
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We're looking at something that is one step above a bare-bones budget,
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There is a wage premium in the Bay Area. The critical question, however, is whether that premium is sufficient to offset the higher cost of living here.