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"A tax hike like this would only work if it were instituted at a global level, " Foudy noted.

"Our profits are expected to fall if the tax hike is imposed, as the Excise Department has planned, " he said.

A more common objection to Mr Obama's cap-and-trade proposal is that it would amount to a huge tax hike in the middle of a recession.

Interestingly, one of the areas thought most vulnerable to an impending tax hike was outperforming the broader market.

Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, welcomed the Illinois tax hike gleefully, inviting businesses to move across the border.

Republicans attack Mr Obama as a rank protectionist and big-spending liberal, who promises the biggest tax hike since the second world war.

John Edwards produced detailed proposals for universal health coverage, including tighter regulations and a tax hike.

Civil servants are up in arms over the income tax hike.

Japan is readying an emergency tax hike to help pay for reconstructing the disaster-struck part of the country.

Interest rates would skyrocket on credit cards, on mortgages and on car loans, which amounts to a huge tax hike on the American people.

Japan may be one of the few countries where a tax hike pledge is a potential vote-winner.

Obama is also pushing for a big tax hike on corporations, but the burden of that will also fall on working families.

Lower-income Americans already got hit by a tax hike on smokers back in February.

That would be the same as a tax hike on American workers.

BP and ConocoPhillips blasted the tax hike, citing it as a reason they postponed new projects.

Many Republicans, meanwhile, remain skeptical of a big boost in deficit spending, and oppose anything that smacks of a tax hike.

The state would raise this money from property taxes, triggering the largest property-tax hike in the city's history.

If legislative deadlock adds to this an unintended tax hike, the impact could be dire.

Mitch McConnell, their leader in the Senate, has introduced a "Tax Hike Prevention Act" to make all Mr Bush's cuts permanent.

Walter Mondale'scall for a federal tax hike sent his 1984 presidential campaign crashing to defeat.

Instead, Congress should reduce spending and prevent another tax hike on American taxpayers.

The government said the tax hike would imply only an additional 0. 20 euro per pack of cigarettes.

There was nationwide opposition to the tax hike .

But both the protest and the tax hike are reminders of the underlying problem.

Oil's move above $90 a barrel is akin to a tax hike on the US economy, which imports 10m barrels of crude daily.

And knee-jerk rich-bashing, like Labour's tax hike, seldom makes for good policy.

The private consumption tax hike implemented by the government on tobacco has been reflected in cigarette prices.

Edano is also a proponent of fiscal reform and supports a consumption tax hike to fund rising social welfare costs.

Tax hike and abortion are two hot potatoes in the legislature.

Right now, Congress can pass a law that would prevent a tax hike on the first $250, 000 of everybody's income.

It will include a personal income tax hike for a 25-year period starting in 2013.

The other path is for Congress to pass a law right away to prevent a tax hike on the first $250, 000 of anyone's income.

It's the first federal income tax hike since 1993.

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