At the height of the boom, it was possible for a promising dot-com to make an initial public offering ( IPO ) of its stock and raise a substantial amount of money even though it had never made a profit — or, in some cases, earned any revenue whatsoever.

In December, the Assembly began to sell the lands to the highest bidder to raise revenue, effectively decreasing the value of the assignats by 25 % in two years.

Many of those who remained were now crofters: poor families living on " crofts "— very small rented farms with indefinite tenure used to raise various crops and animals, with kelping industry ( where men burned kelp for the ashes ), fishing, spinning of linen and military service as important sources of revenue.

Harrison stated that " The purpose of this Bill can hardly be said to raise revenue, because it prohibits the importation of something upon which we have hitherto collected revenue.

To raise revenue to fund the Civil War, Congress introduced the income tax through the Revenue Act of 1861.

The resulting economic development would in addition, so it was believed, make social expenditures largely superfluous ... Equally important was it ... to raise the revenue that would still have to be raised in such a way as to deflect economic behaviour as little as possible from what it would have been in the absence of all taxation (' taxation for revenue only ').

The sum was only an indication of the maximum the King was allowed to withdraw from the Treasury each year ; for the most part, the actual revenue was much lower, which led to mounting debts, and further attempts to raise money through poll taxes, land taxes and hearth taxes.

Late in 1861, the United States federal government suspended specie payments, seeking to raise revenue for the American Civil War effort without exhausting its reserves of gold and silver.

One was to raise fiscal revenue for the federal government, and the other was to protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition.

After the Civil War, tariffs remained elevated to raise revenue and cover the high costs of war.

A 1991 Treasury Department study found that tax compliance for technology professionals was among the highest of all self-employed workers and that Section 1706 would raise no additional tax revenue and could possibly result in losses as self-employed workers did not receive as many tax-free benefits as employees.

The Song government confiscated portions of land owned by the landed gentry in order to raise revenue for these projects, an act which caused dissension and loss of loyalty amongst leading members of Song society but did not stop the Song's defensive preparations.

The primary purpose of the Norwegian tax system has been to raise revenue for public expenditures ; but it is also viewed as a means to achieve social objectives, such as redistribution of income, reduction in alcohol and tobacco consumption, and as a disincentive against certain behaviors.

During 1991 and 1992 Kirner took several decisions to cut government spending and raise revenue to some extent, however her government failed to cut spending in many areas including education by continuing to keep open many schools even though enrollments had fallen to the point where students were unable to receive satisfactory education.

Instead of accruing seigniorage from fiat money and credit most governments opt to raise revenue primarily through taxation and other means.

In the same month, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hicks Beach, levied a small duty on imported corn to raise revenue for the Boer War.

The mayor and aldermen had the power and authority to elect marshals, clerks, treasurer and other necessary officers to properly carry on the affairs of Odum ; prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of such officials ; make and pass ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations which are deemed necessary for the good order, peace, health and government of Odum ; have exclusive jurisdiction over the streets, alleys, sidewalks, drives, parks and other property of Odum ; keeping the same in good order, removing all obstructions of the same at the expenses of the person obstructing ; construct and maintain waterworks, drainage and sewage systems, and other modern improvements, issuing bonds to pay for such expenses ; establish and regulate police, fire and sanitary protection for Odum ; grant municipal franchies ; raise revenue by taxation and grant licenses to defray the expense of government ; regulate the sale and barter of merchandise within the limits of Odum, and the exhibition of shows.

The township has spent more than $ 250, 000 fighting the lawsuit, and has raised taxes in the township in order to raise revenue.

The granting of these patents was highly popular with the monarch because of the potential for raising revenue ; A patentee was expected to pay heavily for the patent, and unlike a tax raise ( another method of raising Crown money ) any public unrest as a result of the patent was normally directed at the patentee, not the monarch.

( C ) The primary rationale for forcing in-state waste into the designated private transfer station was financial ; it was seen as a device to raise revenue to finance the transfer station.

The Grenville ministry therefore decided that Parliament would raise this revenue by taxing the American colonists without their consent.

This was something new: Parliament had previously passed measures to regulate trade in the colonies, but it had never before directly taxed the colonies to raise revenue.

Merryman returned to Maryland in 1842 to manage farms and raise Hereford cattle.

An attempt was made to raise the Lexington in 1842.

José de la Guerra y Noriega, a Captain of the Santa Barbara Presidio, who had begun to acquire large amounts of land in California to raise cattle, purchased Rancho Simi from the Pico family in 1842.

On February 15, 1993, Clinton made his first address to the nation, announcing his plan to raise taxes to cap the budget deficit.

Clinton's advisers pressured him to raise taxes on the theory that a smaller federal budget deficit would reduce bond interest rates.

The government continues its efforts to raise new sovereign debt in local and international financial markets in order to meet its U. S. dollar debt obligations, to mop up liquidity to maintain the exchange rate and to help fund the current budget deficit.

Taplin liked the script and was willing to raise the $ 300, 000 budget that Scorsese wanted if Corman promised, in writing, to distribute the film.

In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise or lower taxes and adopt the budget and other money bills.

Opponents of Medicare often raise issues such as long wait times, a ' brain-drain ' drawing qualified professionals away from Canada to other jurisdictions where working in the health care field is more profitable, and impairment of the Canadian health care system due to budget cuts.

In an attempt to raise funds to combat a $ 960, 000 budget deficit for 2010, mayor Dempsey has solicited donations to the city ’ s general fund from tax-exempt organizations like churches, schools and a hospital, in order to pay for services like fire protection, streetlights and roads.

Producer Jeremy Thomas managed to raise the $ 25 million budget for his independent production single-handedly.

The film was originally released by Columbia Pictures, although they were initially reluctant, and producer Jeremy Thomas had to raise a large sum of the budget independently.

To raise the $ 50, 000 budget for The Endless Summer, Brown took the best footage from his four previous films and made Waterlogged.

As Cleopatras budget passed the ten-million-dollar mark, settling somewhere around $ 40 million, Fox sold its back lot ( now the site of Century City ) to Alcoa in 1961 to raise cash.

Summers pressured the Korean government to raise its interest rates and balance its budget in the midst of a recession, policies criticized by Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz.

Pawlenty's major campaign stances included: a pledge not to raise taxes to balance the state's budget deficit ( while allowing for increases in license and user fees ); that visa expiration dates be required to be printed on driver's licenses ; that women seeking an abortion be required to wait at least 24 hours ; enactment of a concealed carry gun law ; and reform of the state's education requirements.

With no major film studio prepared to fund The Ninth Configuration, Blatty decided to raise the film's $ 4 million budget by putting up half the money himself, and persuading the PepsiCo conglomerate to provide the remaining $ 2 million.

Eves ' time as Opposition leader was more fruitful, when he led attacks against the McGuinty government's first budget, particularly the Ontario Health Premium — which broke the Liberals ' campaign pledge not to raise taxes and the elimination of health services such as eye examinations and physical therapy.

In his first address to the nation on February 15, 1993, Clinton announced his intention to raise taxes to cap the budget deficit.

( Clinton was pressured by his advisers, including Robert Rubin formerly of Goldman Sachs, to raise taxes on the theory that a smaller federal budget deficit would reduce bond interest rates.

Speaking of his support for the Buffett Rule, Nelson said he voted for the Buffett Rule, specifically legislation to raise the minimum tax rate on incomes over $ 1 million per year to 30 %, in order to reduce the budget deficit and to make the tax code more fair.

To ease the growing budget deficit due to falling tax revenues from cuts in corporate and personal income taxes and other factors such as the Iraq War and SARS outbreak, Lee proposed on 29 August 2003 to raise the GST from three percent to five percent, a change which took place in January 2004.

Despite the apparent competition among the UC law schools, Hastings was able to maintain its traditionally high standards without having to decrease class size or raise tuition prices to higher levels than fellow UC law schools, until the California budget crisis in June 2009, first raised the possibility of slashing $ 10 million in state funding.

They also argue that the proposed sales tax rate would raise less revenue than the current tax system, leading to an increased budget deficit.

To counter this, the Remonstrant regents proposed in January 1618 to withhold part of Holland's contribution to the Generality budget and use the money to raise more waardgelder companies.

Ideas had been circulated to raise the standards to qualify for the grants, but concerns of impact to minority and disadvantaged students paused such legislation until subsequent budget cuts forced changes.

To keep a balanced budget, the organizers decided to not only raise the entrance fee to 60 Euros, but to remove the " girls get in free " tradition and charge females equally.