Tobacco consumption in the state dropped by 31% between 1992 and early 1997, more than three times the national figure.
Airlines find themselves in a difficult situation, having to juggle high gasoline prices with low pricing power given the weak state of consumption in a fragile economic environment.
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It accounts for 80% of the power produced in the state and one-third of the state's consumption--all with no carbon dioxide and at a low price.
There is a limit to how much you can or should do by way of clumsy state control over consumption of fat or any other nutrients that a current fad happens to label as bad.
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Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross investment decreased 0.1 percent, compared with a decrease of 1.0 percent.
Consumers exercise their choices with the products that they buy, so consumption taxes are variable at the state and local levels.
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Older Chinese grew up in a society where many of their consumption choices were dictated by the state or by their workplace.
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As with Obamanomics, the unspoken understanding, or desire, of the technocrats is to fund additional incentives, as well as to pay for the welfare state, by raising the consumption tax (national sales tax) from the current 5 percent to something much higher.
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The state in both countries has cushioned consumption indirectly by stemming job losses.
The team's priority now is to put the craft into "Point Rest State" - reducing fuel consumption so the craft has enough left to last months or years, giving scientists the time to decide how to proceed.
In fact, the rate at which the economy can grow will be hampered by a reduced willingness of banks to lend, a reduced amount of spending by federal, state and local governments, reduced consumption from many still-financially-overstretched American citizens who also face elevated gas prices, and from a reduced willingness of businesses to invest in the face of uncertainty regarding future tax and regulatory policies.
Additionally, due to their inherent advantages over traditional spinning hard drives, including better performance, lower power consumption, and increased reliability, drives made from solid state flash products should continue to gain in popularity as prices fall and capacities rise.
It is consumption taxes which carry the heavy load of funding the welfare state, not those taxes on income, companies or capital.
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This power has been read widely enough that a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption came under Congressional power because wheat itself is traded across state lines, even if his specific wheat was not.
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But as China's economy continues to grow, so does the country's energy consumption, and with it the scale of the challenge that the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) faces.
But in recent decades, as New York cleaned up its act, the Garden State experimented with ever higher taxes on income, property and consumption.
In place of the old taxes, the reform calls for a new consumption-based tax system, largely via expanding and slightly increasing the state sales tax.
Reducing America's petrol consumption by 20% by 2017, a target he announced in the state-of-the-union address, would certainly diminish the country's dependence on Middle Eastern oil, but the way he plans to go about it may not be either efficient or clean.
There was a New Deal case of a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption: the Feds claimed the right to restrict this as his non-consumption, as a result of growing his own, of out of state wheat meant that this was inter-state commerce.
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Noda has also signaled that he will honor the previously-reached agreement with the opposition parties on restructuring government finances and putting welfare state programs on a sustainable financing footing, specifically raising the consumption tax from the current five percent to 10 percent by yearend 2015.
Sweden has a complicated relationship with alcohol - immoderate consumption goes hand in hand with fearsomely high prices, official disapproval and a state monopoly on selling liquor.
It can pack a bigger punch than its share implies because when the state buys things, cash flows to firms and their workers, boosting consumption.
C. industry group, has ranked the Bayou State as high as No. 5 among all states in per capita beer consumption.
California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.
Presumably, that would be because the government of Israel has drawn them so as to define existential threats to the state, not simply as a matter of rhetorical posturing intended mostly for domestic political consumption.
Working through grantees, it has had significant impact on promoting adoption of state and federal vehicle efficiency standards, more stringent residential and commercial building codes to reduce energy consumption, and development of renewable energy technology.
There's a valid argument for broadening the tax base, which such consumption taxes are intended to do, but it's safe to say that any increase in a state burden is going to adversely affect somebody.
Given the sovereign debt turmoil in the Eurozone and the approaching debt problems for the US (as the US debt-to-GDP figures escalate over 100% by mid-2012 without accounting for state unfunded pension liability), debtor nations will find it difficult to finance large-scale consumption economies any longer.
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Some 30 states allow raw milk sales for human consumption, according to the Food and Drug Administration, although federal rules prohibit the movement of these products across state lines.
In a Democrat-dominated state, the Clinton-Gore message, chiming with the goal of reducing California's oil consumption by 25% in ten years, rings in tune with a culture of environmental activism.
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