It is keen on small-business subsidies, but wants to dole them out with fewer hassles.
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In addition, Bill and Maya would eliminate special interest business subsidies and cut the corporate tax rate.
The White House seems ready to take a run at lowering corporate rates and scaling back targeted business subsidies.
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Progressives are fine with ending business subsidies, of course.
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So are welfare payments and business subsidies.
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More depressing for the purists is that I only see four ways to reverse the trend: (1) State legislative subsidies to keep a state-supported school within the existing conference due to other state schools they play and revenue retention from those games (2) private business subsidies, (3) donations from the general public and high net worth individuals, or (4) a conscious decision to deemphasize sports.
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They are all for capitalism, but like the idea of keeping weak firms in business with subsidies.
These large vessels have been largely kept in business by governmental subsidies, say non-governmental organizations like the WWF which has been urging the World Trade Organization (WTO) to do something about them.
Every business owner knows the subsidies are temporary, while the new costs and regulations are permanent at least as long as Obama is in office.
Deutsche Post, for example, was fined by the European Commission in 2001 for abusing its monopoly by allowing its global parcels business to receive big subsidies from its letters franchise.
Instead, it is a corporatist system of crony-capitalism where welfare for the masses is a dirty phrase, and corporate welfare, in the form of subsidies for business and financial bail-outs, is the norm.
The state government will provide subsidies to help business buy insurance for the working poor.
Competition would normally drive out inefficient retailers, but a combination of zoning laws, taxes and subsidies keep them in business.
To recap, distinct cultural and regulatory environments in each state, differences between Romneycare and Obamacare in the ease of access to subsidies, and small business and employee incentives should call into question the assumptions that have been used to predict employer behavior under the federal law by CBO.
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No more national parks, no more Small Business Administration loans, no more export subsidies, no more NIH.
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Newspapers are full of unnamed GOP sources talking about how the leadership might sign on to (or at least not object to) such ideas as ending some ethanol subsidies or changing the way business inventories are taxed.
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Much of their profits came from the Intel subsidies and not from running their business.
Finally, U.S. launcher manufacturers who do not receive direct government subsidies and who are obliged to do business in the market place are woefully disadvantaged in competing with official Soviet and Chinese agencies that face no such constraints.
Subsidies distort and disrupt free market structures and business incentives through regulatory interference and overreach precedents.
Haley is the co-author of the book Subsidies to Chinese Industry: State Capitalism, Business Strategy and Trade Policy by Oxford University Press.
Bloomberg justifies his nanny-state interventions by pointing to the social costs of obesity, but there is no direct causal link between obesity and 20-ounce sodas with sugar in them, and neither would it be anyone's business at all except for the increasing government control and subsidies for health care.
He added that Mr. Romney's energy policy, which calls for greater U.S. oil and gas production and scaling back subsidies, would cede the emerging clean-energy business to China, whereas Mr. Obama was investing in an important growth industry.
He pledged to fight against Small Business Administration (SBA) budget cuts and other cuts to loan subsidies.
Still, thanks to ubiquitous government subsidies, the manufacture of wind and solar generators is a vibrant business.
Whatever team she puts in place, Miss Megawati seems unlikely to press hard for asset sales from the bank-restructuring agency, for deep cuts in subsidies, or for reducing the government's influence over small business and agriculture.
Although Intel, under CEO Andy Grove, was able to abandon the memory business and focus on microprocessors at a time when Japanese firms, backed by generous government subsidies, were driving their American rival out of the memory market, the company has not been able to pull a similar trick when it comes to the architectural transition from x86 to ARM.
Last year Congress also reduced federal subsidies for federally-guaranteed student loans, and some lenders said that made the business uneconomical for them.
The subsidies, they say, are needed to defray the huge capital costs of their business, and also the fact that prices fluctuate so wildly.
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