The Big Apple bite.New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Mayor Michael Bloom berg brags about discouraging smoking by slapping a $1.50 city tax on each pack of cigarettes, in addition to an already hefty $1.50 state tax. But even New Yorkers who don't smoke are wheezing Wheezing Definition Wheezing is a high-pitched whistling sound associated with labored breathing. Description Wheezing occurs when a child or adult tries to breathe deeply through air passages that are narrowed or filled with mucus as a under a heavy tax burden, often for engaging in activities--employing people, earning a living, buying goods and services--that Bloomberg presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. does not want to eliminate. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a February analysis by the city's Independent Budget Office, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of is the most heavily taxed of the nine U.S. cities with populations exceeding 1 million. New York's state and local tax burden, including income, property, sales, utility, and various other taxes, was $9.02 per $100 of "taxable resources" (household incomes plus business surpluses) in 2003-04. That was 47 percent more than the average burden for the nine cities and 73 percent more than the burden in Dallas, which ranked last. State and Local Tax Burdens in Nine Largest U.S. Cities (per $100 of taxable resources in 2003-04) New York $9.02 Philadelphia $7.16 Los Angeles $6.88 San Antonio $6.73 Phoenix $6.25 San Diego $6.01 Chicago $5.89 Houston $5.53 Dallas $5.20 Source: New York City Independent Budget Office Note: Table made from bar graph. |
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