Markets have already tested the ability of the weakest governments to bear the burden of their debt.
To say that the U.S. economy couldn't bear the burden of these new bonds is utterly preposterous.
Are we a nation that asks only the middle class and the poor to bear the burden?
The people that will bear the burden of the tax are the workers in the form of lower wages.
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All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.
It was rumored that, like an ant, her back could bear the burden of something several times her body weight.
Second, America and a few countries cannot be expected to bear the burden of the fiscal and interest rate stimulus alone.
We cannot expect to achieve this by raising tax rates, unless those who bear the burden of these higher taxes do so cheerfully.
Pensioners would be better off, possibly at the expense of future taxpayers, who would bear the burden of repaying the government's more costly debt.
That would force our senior citizens and working families to bear the burden of deficit reduction while the wealthiest are asked to do nothing more.
Democratic citizens know that they must bear the burden of responsibility for their society if they are to benefit from its protection of their rights.
People living with HIV bear the burden of having a highly stigmatized disease and they regularly face discrimination simply on the basis of their health status.
Their software gripes may camouflage a bigger complaint: that it will be they, not retailers, who will have to bear the burden of making online consumers secure.
However, the controversy over Al Hutchinson's handling of historic cases vividly illustrates how this approach can damage those agencies which bear the burden of trying to discharge multiple duties.
Most workers would have a bigger incentive to find a job quickly than they do now, because they would bear the burden of paying for their unemployment benefits directly.
So a proposal that says we'll solve this problem temporarily or for the long term, either way, just by asking those folks to bear the burden is not one the President would support.
But balance is essential so that no sector of American society has to bear the burden by itself, or unduly, of reducing our deficit and getting our fiscal house in order for the long term.
This scenario results, these advocates say, in all insured individuals being indirectly forced to bear the burden of uncompensated emergency care which, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), amounts to 55% of emergency care.
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We very much hope that the super committee will fulfill its mandate, produce a proposal that is balanced and fair, that doesn't ask any sector of society to bear the burden of reducing our deficits and getting our fiscal house in order.
Basically, you and I as citizens, the listener as a citizen, we don't want - we want the people who run banks - I think this is safe to say - we want them to take risks but to bear the burden of those risks.
Finally, the Bank of Japan's decision to raise interest rates has meant that banks will probably have to sell shares to cover losses from borrowers, who may become unable to bear the burden of higher interest payments as well as to meet increased interest bills to depositors.
Since interest paid to the Fed, the Social Security system and other government pension funds is effectively rebated to the Treasury, taxpayers currently bear only the burden of interest on 60% of this debt.
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But we are not willing to accept the "my way or the highway" approach backed by Congressional Republicans that asks the middle class and seniors to bear all the burden while the very wealthiest individuals, big corporations and oil and gas companies continue to enjoy big tax loopholes that are unavailable to middle class Americans and small businesses.
And drug manufacturers should not bear the whole burden of improving access to drugs in developing countries.
And that 1 percent -- you and those in uniform -- bear the overwhelming burden of our security.
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Mr. Kreisberg said Rhode Island workers have been made to bear the biggest burden of the pension overhaul.
It is always some combination of suppliers, shareholders, workers and customers who bear the economic burden of a tax.
The report said that private markets, not the government, will be the source of mortgage lending and bear the loss burden.
"A tax structure in which wage earners, pensioners and a small percentage of companies bear the overwhelming burden is not sustainable, " he says.
In so doing we also honor their families, who remind us that it is our extraordinary military families who also bear the heavy burden of war.
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