However, he also faces political and economic limits on ways of raising taxes.
Even the previous heresy, that economic growth has limits, is on the table.
And of course economic and technological limits are constantly moving things.
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Pick away at this idea of natural equality, however, and the moral limits of economic theory begin to emerge.
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Our entitlement programs will bankrupt the next generation if this generation chooses not to act, and our tax system limits our economic growth and our global competitiveness.
One of the important lessons the economic crisis taught us is the limits of depending primarily on American consumers and Asian exports to drive economic growth.
This puts political and ethical limits on how far the drive for economic equality ought to go. (Strictly practical limits, as well, since too noble a determination to take from the rich to give to the poor will end up impoverishing everyone.) It also means that perfect economic equality should never be embraced, even implicitly, as an ideal.
Mr. Christie should understand that a flatter tax is an economic and anticorruption strategy because it limits the opportunity for political mediation on behalf of special interests.
In response to concerns that students visas are being misused by economic migrants, there will be limits on the hours of paid work which overseas students will be allowed to carry out.
The United States, and the world, are desperate for economic growth but pushing everywhere against ecological limits.
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Germany's overhaul of the benefit system, by contrast, raises the supply of labour, relaxing the limits on the country's economic performance.
Republicans claim to love capitalism and the Constitution, but when the capitalist system sought to cleanse itself of failed concepts on the way to a healthy economic recovery, the GOP ignored strict constitutional limits meant to restrain federal power on the way to propping up businesses that the markets had left for dead.
Adding that he thought the rhetoric was "within acceptable limits, " Specter told reporters that economic and political anxieties have created a "level of anger in the country" that has not been seen since the Great Depression.
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So the limits that we do face are either technological or economic.
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Mr. BEN BERNANKE (Federal Reserve Chairman): If we did not place some limits on the downside risks to individuals affected by economic change, the public at large might become less willing to accept the dynamism that is so essential to economic progress.
In that case anything that limits future growth in Chinese consumption will necessarily limit Chinese economic growth.
"It limits any future development without having to assess what that economic impact may be, " Mr. Slattery said.
Especially with much of the country off-limits to foreigners due to security restrictions and the military's economic operations, tourists already clog all existing suitable hotels in Yangon, Bagan and Mandalay, meaning a massive upgrade is needed in the hospitality sector.
In practice, the sharp downturn in economic performance has meant that Germany and France, among others, have breached the deficit limits.
Those limits are political ones, the willingness of the population in countries undergoing austerity to tolerate the economic pain.
Prior to the 2001 economic collapse, when the government was trying to maintain the peso at parity to the dollar, the government placed limits on bank withdrawals.
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