The problem is this: Politicians are always falling all over themselves to hand out goodies to families, while looking for ways to minimize the cost by imposing quirky limits and phaseouts, ( see chart).
One hotly contested idea in the U.S. and Europe lately, and once advocated by John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression, is a financial transactions tax imposing a cost on buys and sells of stocks or bonds.
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Most notably, Obamacare is imposing an enormous cost on smaller corporations, the engine of job growth.
Unfortunately, Obamacare is trying to halt this cost-control effort by imposing crippling restrictions on high-deductible plans.
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This Hobson's choice is imposing a high cost on both individuals and society.
If the quality is higher, the whistleblower incentives will also increase the quantity of internal corporate investigations, imposing a real cost burden (legal, IT, etc.) for most companies that lack Fortune 50 resources.
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Several commentators and researchers have noted that imposing a financial cost on the sender may be the most effective way to discourage unwanted messages and facilitate delivery of messages that are relevant and useful.
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Trying to limit the cost of subsidising jobs by imposing a minimum wage on employers, as Labour proposes, would merely reduce the number of jobs that employers will be willing to offer the long-term unemployed.
Zingales, who is now researching a broader range of corporate scandals, acknowledges the media's role in uncovering them (eventually) and the impact the business press has on corporate governance by imposing a reputational cost on miscreant executives and companies.
" As an excuse, Facebook has evidently consulted with "several commentators and researchers, " which "have noted that imposing a financial cost on the sender may be the most effective way to discourage unwanted messages and facilitate delivery of messages that are relevant and useful.
That tax being equal to the cost of the externality they are imposing.
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It proposed capping discretionary spending, the sort that needs annual authorisation, raising Social Security taxes and limiting benefits, imposing a raft of cost controls on federal health care programmes, and eliminating tax breaks while lowering tax rates.
Other custodians (Schwab, Fidelity) will execute a large number of high quality low cost proprietary ETFs for no charge while imposing nominal ticket charges on the rest of the ETF universe.
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Of course, government-run health care systems also insulate the patient from the cost of care, but they control costs by imposing a fixed budget, which eventually leads to the rationing of care.
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Indeed, once rates start to increase, the cost of financing the large federal debt will mushroom and taxes must increase imposing additional costs on society.
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Most recently, after intense lobbying, the Department of Health and Human Services did the bidding of Planned Parenthood by imposing a mandate on virtually all employers to provide insurance coverage (without cost-sharing) for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations and contraceptives.
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From 8 October, the company is imposing a 5.5% increase in all natural gas tariffs and the cost of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) will rise by 7.6%.
"It's important to stress once again that without imposing the extra health and safety measures, which all come at a considerable cost, the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling Event will not go ahead and eventually the tradition would die, " Mr Jefferies said.
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Citing potential adverse effects on the cost and availability of credit to small business owners, the Federal Reserve concluded in a recent report to Congress that imposing stricter regulations on small business credit cards would do more harm than good.
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