Taxing consumption rather than productivity would encourage saving and investment, in turn stimulating production and economic growth.
High unemployment should encourage saving for contingencies, and the spendthrift postwar babies desperately need to save or else work until death.
For example, giving all basic-rate taxpayers higher-rate relief on pension saving would do much to encourage such saving, without giving any additional benefits to the better-off.
One set of measures designed to encourage energy saving by companies did not appear in the draft bill.
In addition, a consumption tax would encourage more saving in the long run.
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"While we want to encourage life-saving advances we must not let science advance in a moral vacuum, " he said.
True, you want to encourage work and saving, while discouraging sloth and spending.
They also need to be combined with steps to encourage more funded saving for old age and to ensure support for poorer pensioners.
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This suggests that a new retirement subsidy focused so heavily (and so generously) on lower-income families may be the most effective way to encourage more new saving.
The government wants to encourage more voluntary pension saving especially among low-to-middle income earners through stakeholder pensions.
Pegging the federal funds rate close to zero for another three years and twisting the yield curve to lower longer-term rates will continue to misprice credit, penalize saving, and encourage risk.
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Such uncertainty is hardly likely to encourage more widespread long-term saving.
They also predicted that the new measure would benefit the rich with substantial savings rather than encourage the less well-off to start saving.
"Chancellor Merkel's coalition government has made an important contribution to the economic upswing by introducing investment programmes for energy-saving technologies, and measures to encourage small business investment, " said Gustav Horn, director of the Macroeconomic Policy Institute.
All of this increased saving would tend to lower interest rates and encourage investment.
The wider this transformation, the more we need to encourage changes that benefit you as an individual as well as saving your organization time, money and effort.
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Unlike regulations promulgated by EPA, which are designed to punish those within the industry, FDA regulations encourage innovation in the field by fast-tracking life-saving new drugs and offering independent research for all drug manufacturers.
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Instead, the Conservative leader imagines a welfare system where ministers in Whitehall pull fiscal strings which encourage people towards his party's core values of hard work, saving, marriage and having children (when you can afford to).
He also said suppliers were placing messages on the front of bills to encourage consumers to phone them or visit a website to find out if they could be saving money.
The government is now considering paying firms for each kilowatt-hour saved through energy-saving measures such as low-energy lighting, and offering financial incentives to encourage people to buy efficient equipment for homes and businesses.
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