And we can help you buy something that will, you know, put the burden back on you.
But this rescue package will deliver only a modest reduction in the back-achingly heavy burden of Greek indebtedness.
It was rumored that, like an ant, her back could bear the burden of something several times her body weight.
The ongoing delays in passing the legislation to introduce the levy indicate the possibility that this part of the levy could be rolled back with the full burden falling on uninsured deposits.
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If so, by 2010, Europe's tax burden would be back to its level of the mid-1970s.
Beginning January 1, 2013, that burden has reverted back to 6.2%.
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Long-term care insurance can also help by taking some of the caretaking burden off their back, and in some states it can protect your joint assets from having to be spent down in order to qualify for Medicaid.
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The right solution to this problem is to reduce the burden of government spending back to the levels in the early part of last decade.
Meanwhile, my wife, who I initially feared would struggle with the pain of watching her husband face his mortality and the burden of nursing him back to health, has shown me just what strength is.
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The data only go back to 1955 but I am betting the real burden in 1990s was on par with the burden right after World War II, when the US government also ran a surplus on the back of high taxes and declining military expenditure.
Companies that once helped shoulder the retirement burden through funded pension plans are cutting back their commitments now that low investment returns, low interest rates and higher life expectancy have created frightening deficits.
This would give them the ability -- participation is voluntary in the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, but it would shift the burden of the risk from the taxpayers back to the companies that get the benefit.
In short, the current path is unsustainable and the only course to prevent the U.S. from following down the well-worn path of the PIIGS debacles is to cut spending, dial back the social guarantee escalations, reduce the tax burden on businesses, flatten the burden on individuals, and live within our means.
This represents the entitlement burden for the next 75 years, discounted back to 2004 dollars.
"They can abandon their quest pretty early and go back to a career in the Senate, " says Burden.
But if the main reason for lower rates is lower inflation, the real burden of debt will take longer to pay back.
Were the present bull market to give way to another prolonged bear market, both states and firms might discover that the pensions burden they thought they had shaken off came back to haunt them.
Some wealthy Americans, like former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, said he would cut back on charitable giving as a result of his higher tax burden.
Instead of scratching back his assets under management, Icahn cut himself loose from the burden of limited partners entirely.
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The burden would be borne mostly by financial institutions that wire money back and forth all day long.
With the departure of Soriano, who signed with Washington, a larger bullpen burden will fall on David Robertson, who never completely bounced back from a strained left oblique last May, and Joba Chamberlain, who returned in August from 14 months of injuries.
But all practices will get back-up support from a national call-centre, easing the administrative burden.
Rather than getting the economy back on track for future growth, we are simply creating a debt service burden that will put a drag on the economy for years to come.
When Americans enjoyed renewed economic growth during the middle of the 1980s and much of the 1990s, conservatives looked back toward Reagan's 1981 tax cut as proof that lowering the tax burden had boosted the economy.
"We believe in one share, one vote, and if all we get back are bromides about the need to preserve journalistic integrity, we think the burden is on the company to prove its model maximizes shareholder value, " says Christopher Young, of proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services.
If state pension schemes are scaled back, some degree of compulsion may be needed to prevent people ending up a burden on taxpayers.
To ease the burden on Greece, ministers seem ready to lend it money to buy back existing bonds, and to lower the interest rate they charge on loans.
Meanwhile, Ireland, the agency said, could claw its way back into the single-A rating band if a deal is struck to share the burden of its bank debts.
By adopting the Lib Dems' proposals to raise the threshold at which income tax is paid, the poorly paid will see their tax burden cut, while the better off will have any benefit from this clawed back.
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