Cutting estate or inheritance tax seems to offer a big electoral hit at small fiscal cost.
The fiscal cost of abolishing death duties may seem trifling, but it still means that for a given level of public spending other taxes must rise, which may harm incentives more.
More centrist Democrats share the goal of universal coverage, but have gravitated toward a regulate-mandate-subsidize model because it has a lower explicit fiscal cost and keeps much of the insurance market in private hands.
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The chart below shows the current dividend of each of the stocks, as well as their respective Fiscal Cliff Cost.
To do that, we examined how often each of these stocks fluctuated more than their Fiscal Cliff Cost during the past year ending July 31, 2012.
We found that, on average, these stocks fluctuated more than their Fiscal Cliff Cost during 39% of the trading days and two-thirds of the weeks during the year.
The tax increase on the dividends or Fiscal Cliff Cost (FCC) has a small impact on the total return of the overall performance over a day, week or even a year.
Boeing, for example, recently announced layoffs at a plant in Texas while Lockheed Martin has warned the fiscal cliff could cost jobs.
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Boeing, for example, recently announced plans to cut its headcount in a plant in Texas, while Lockheed Martin has warned the fiscal cliff could cost the economy valuable jobs.
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Yet the CBO projects a fiscal cliff could cost the U.S. two million jobs next year and cause the unemployment rate to stay stubbornly stuck above 8% through 2014.
Addressing "some important issues like fiscal incentives, reducing cost of credit and transaction costs will help Indian exporters become more competitive, " said Sanjay Budhia, chairman of a panel on exports set up by lobby group Confederation of Indian Industry.
This means the Navy will incur a huge fiscal liability with the true cost of these DDG 51 ships, effectively doubling their initial cost on paper.
In addition, Colgate also initiated two restructuring plans in 2012, one short-term and another for four years, which should result in substantial cost savings this fiscal year and help improve margins.
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Coming when investors already are concerned about the strength and duration of the economic recovery, and the cost of the fiscal policies that led back to growth, Dubai World's default risk may be only one of the risks that market actors were underpricing.
The integration of ISP is currently underway and the company expects to achieve its cost synergy target in fiscal 2013.
In the short-run it may succeed, though at the potential cost of replacing promised fiscal austerity and state reform with modest helpings of old-fashioned pork.
Hulse then evidently told the company that there had been "significant" cost overruns on the fiscal 2002 audit, "no doubt caused by the massive reconstruction necessary to correct PwC's own errors, " the suit says.
And given Congress's history of fiscal irresponsibility, it is surely right to be sceptical about any strategy that expands entitlements today in the hope of forcing a fiscal crisis to win support for cost cuts tomorrow.
Implementing pro-growth reforms as part of the fiscal adjustment process can minimize any economic cost that budget cuts may have.
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Mrs Merkel is ready to talk about growth, but not if it means reopening the fiscal compact and not if it will cost Germany many more billions.
We have a fiscal and regulatory environment that has raised the cost and uncertainty of hiring workers while inhibiting productivity improvements.
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Why then in fiscal debates do we look only at the cost of government, and not at the collective goods or services we thereby acquire?
Now, to preserve our long-term fiscal health, we must also address the growing cost in Medicare and Social Security.
Republicans have targeted the Florida golf trip for its cost to taxpayers at a time of fiscal austerity, with one GOP legislator proposing that no such travel by the president should be funded by taxpayers until the White House tours are resumed.
When Spain's fiscal-stimulus package provided funds to build low-cost housing, it was criticised for spurring more construction in a country that had already seen too much.
Until pay for CEOs is tied to judicious fiscal behavior instead of boosting earnings per share at any cost, chief executives will continue to swing for the fences.
Apparently the frequency with which consumers are dining out has been on the rise since mid-2009, presumably since contracting during the worst part of the recession and stock market collapse, and the writers at The Fiscal Times think it may have something to do with cost.
Does anyone imagine that it is a coincidence that Speaker John Boehner has disappeared into the background in the final days of the fiscal cliff debate so as to avoid another misstep that might cost him the Speakership?
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