Regardless of how one feels about abortion or birth control (or even how one feels about religion), this is a bad policy.
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And when governments start to attack drug patents, they are creating a bad policy for a good cause that should be addressed by other means.
And in a bad economic time, it is bad economic policy to raise taxes on 23 million small businesses, the only sector of the economy growing jobs.
This is a bad situation that results in bad choices because the policy was designed to present bad choices and bad choices only, which is why Congress was supposed to avoid it and to come up with an alternative means of achieving the deficit reduction that is otherwise achieved through arbitrary, across-the-board cuts.
Like a hurricane brewing over warm Caribbean waters, a perfect storm of bad fiscal policy, bad tax policy, and bad social policy is being pumped up by the printing presses of the Federal Reserve.
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Germans still fret about moral hazard: a bail-out would mean that Greece gets away with years of irresponsible fiscal policy and could set a bad precedent for other euro delinquents.
The ban, as you might imagine, is not only a dollar short and a day late, but also bad policy.
But let's just say from the standpoint of social policy it's just bad social policy to have people earning such a low wage that they feel frustrated, that they feel they can't get ahead.
Why do bad ideas flourish in policy discourse, even though a few minutes of thought and research would show just how bad they are?
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Critics who dismissed Thai Rak Thai's platform as cheap populism were missing the point: in a country used to receiving policy edicts from on high, a spot of populism was no bad thing.
As governor of Texas, Mr Bush can hardly be judged on his foreign-policy achievements, but he has been a prominent supporter of immigration (not a bad guide in Republican terms) and he has inherited an experienced foreign-policy team from his father.
Bad policy that steers students into a prescribed path inhibits learning and leads to unintended consequences.
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To be blunt, a sales tax cartel is bad news for tax policy and bad news for privacy.
Enlightened government of the left, combining market economics with effective social policy, would not be a bad thing.
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It became obvious this week that the philosophy, the project and the policy on Europe are all in a bad way.
It's a mildly entertaining game to wonder what stories we would tell to justify the quick but often bad conclusion suggested by a raw number - the policy, social or cultural reasons that explain the apparent Finnish lawfulness, for example - "so much more civilized, those Scandinavians, even in prison" - or the performance of US universities.
From the point of view of a German politician, alas, all policy choices must look bad.
Severe recessions or depressions are fundamentally political events that can last a decade or longer -- however long economic policy remains bad.
"The idea of user fees is not a bad idea, " says Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute in Washington.
It also argued it was bad public policy to allow Nike to unilaterally end a lawsuit threatening to invalidate its trademarks, leaving it with the power to harass other competitors over the same claims.
Bad decisions on trade, taxes and monetary policy turned a 1929 stock market hiccup into the 1930s-long Great Depression.
While it appears like a distant possibility, high commodity prices coupled with ultra-loose monetary policy and a cold economy could, in a very bad scenario, lead to stagflation.
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As is, we're getting a bad trade: Republicans may gain political benefit, but Democrats get the policy.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it has highlighted conflicts between religious aims and public policy.
Deflation is not inherently bad, and that it is therefore far from being obvious that a wise monetary policy should seek to prevent it, or dampen its effects, at any price.
The easy-money policy of the Fed explains why inflation-linked bonds may not be a bad deal for investors.
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Last month, Mr Persson unveiled a plan to run budget surpluses in good times so that he could loosen fiscal policy in bad times without breaching the pact's 3% limit.
And 2012 could turn out to be a real low point, which given the seriousness of the policy issues facing us, would be very bad news.
Maybe the US is not in as bad a spot as we think, says Mark Weisbrot, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.
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