NEW YORK Jakob Silfverberg Youth Jersey , Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, Monday unveiled a proposal for a "millionaires tax" to help fix the city's beleaguered subways.
The plan would tax city residents with annual incomes of more than 500,000 U.S. in order to raise money for the subway improvements of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), de Blasio said at a press conference at the city's Brooklyn Borough Hall.
The roughly 0.5-percent income tax hike would apply to the roughly 1 percent of the city's taxpayers would generate about 800 million dollars annually Ryan Miller Youth Jersey , and it would also fund reduced-price MetroCards for low-income riders.
The mayor called for lawmakers of the New York State, which runs the MTA, to pass the proposal "so the rest of us can live our lives here in the city."
Joseph J. Lhota, MTA Chairman rolled out a nearly 1-billion-U.S.-dollar emergency subway repair plan late July, promising to put the brake on nightmarish delays and derailments of the subways within one year. He suggested the city and the state split the cost evenly.
New York's subway has long been the lifeblood of the city. However Brandon Montour Youth Jersey , the number of subway delays partly due to the aging infrastructure tripled in the past five years, to 70,000 per month, according to a report last month. About 5.7 million people take the subway on an average weekday.
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BEIJING Ondrej Kase Youth Jersey , March 6 (Xinhua) -- China observed the 52nd "Lei Feng's Day" on Thursday, when people across the country helped others and volunteered in remembrance of Chairman Mao's call to "learn from Comrade Lei Feng."
But five decades later, the legacy left by Lei Feng, a soldier lauded for his selflessness, is complicated. Some have asked whether there is still a need to learn from him. The answer is yes.
Some people argue that Lei is a mere propaganda tool Chris Wagner Youth Jersey , while others say his "spirit" is obsolete in today's day and age.
They are narrow-minded. Casting doubt on Lei's credibility simply because the government promotes him as a role model does not do justice to Lei's spirit or the selflessness and dedication of today's volunteers.
Lei lived in a time without social media. If he lived today, he would have to avoid much more temptation, but we still see the power of his spirit in many "contemporary Lei Fengs."
In Liaoning, where Lei is buried, miner Guo Mingyi made a name for himself by helping those in need. Guo spends around half of his annual salary sponsoring 180 children to attend school. He has also been a regular blood donor for more than 20 years. In turn Ryan Kesler Youth Jersey , Guo's deeds have inspired many others across the country.
Preserving Lei Feng's legacy is necessary when today's young people hesitate to help elderly people and would-be good samaritans must worry about the consequences of being a "good guy."
The case of Meng Ruipeng, a student from North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, shows the slippery slope of moral decay.
Meng died while saving the lives of two drowning girls in February, but the girls' mother denied his heroic act out of fear she may have to compensate Meng's family.
Though she finally conceded that Meng saved the girls, the incident has surely not helped convince people to "learn from Lei Feng."
Society is never short of good will. More than a thousand people attended Meng's funeral -- a sign that people admire good samaritans.
The purpose of promoting the spirit of Lei Feng is not to lift Lei as an individual Ryan Getzlaf Youth Jersey , but to advocate good morality.
Some people would do good deeds even without Lei. But some people only mock, instead of reflecting on what they can learn from him.
(Source: Xinhua)
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HONG KONG, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The government of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Thursday announced that two grants totaling over 6 million HK dollars (about 770 Andrew Cogliano Youth Jersey ,000 U.S. dollars) have been approved to two agencies for providing relief to flood victims in Bihar of India.
The move came after the government accepted the advice of the Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee.
The two grants, one of 3.128 million HK dollars (some 400,000 U.S. dollars) to World Vision Hong Kong and one of 2.883 million HK dollars (some 370,000 U.S. dollars) to CEDAR Fund, will be used to provide food Cam Fowler Youth Jersey , household items, hygiene items and shelter materials to flood victims in Bihar.
The committee hopes the grants will facilitate the provision of timely relief to the victims and help them restore their normal living, a government spokesman said.
The grants, together with those approved earlier, will take the accumulative value of grants for flood victims in India to 11.389 million HK dollars (1.46 million U.S. dollars).
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