Mr Putin wants to protect Russian industries from external competition, including by increasing subsidies to farmers.
Or is it, on the contrary, an illustration of the problem Mr. Gulbranson highlighted with his support of the Tea Party and criticism of ever-increasing government subsidies?
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Increasing LIHEAP subsidies could raise the overall cost of achieving any given level of emission reductions, because it would somewhat offset the price signals necessary to motivate households to undertake low-cost reductions.
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In addition to the ideas favored by the insurers, the alternatives included levying a national tax to pay for uncompensated care, increasing federal subsidies to help people purchase health insurance, encouraging credit-ratings firms to use health-insurance status in determining ratings, and expanding employers' roles in enrolling people in insurance plans.
Mr Bush's team wants to eliminate the bias in favour of employer-purchased, low-deductible health insurance in America's tax code, not by reducing the existing tax subsidies for employers, but by increasing the tax subsidies for individuals.
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Mr Chidambaram has done the trick by increasing social spending and subsidies for food and fertilisers.
More child care by doubling the number of children receiving child-care subsidies and increasing child care tax credits for lower-income families.
But his response, from raising the top income-tax rate to increasing college-tuition subsidies, was just a laundry list of small initiatives.
Other provisions in their new plan included curbing farm subsidies and increasing how much civilian and military personnel contribute to their health and retirement plans.
Special attention should be paid to reducing subsidies and increasing acculturation.
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Also on the table: ending agriculture subsidies, increasing the gas tax, taxing capital gains and interest as ordinary income, reducing some of the spending in the new health care law and freezing pay for government workers.
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.
The government subsidies are aimed at increasing domestic consumption to diversify economic growth that has previously relied heavily on exports and infrastructure spending.
And the exchange rate is kept low because price subsidies inflate peso incomes, increasing the demand for dollars.
Its recommendations included redirecting subsidies to protect the countryside, and increasing organic farming.
We reconfigured the student loan program to eliminate wasteful subsidies to banks and put students' needs first, increasing financial aid for millions of young people.
But the biggest danger lies in the Middle East itself, where subsidies of food and fuel are omnipresent and where politicians are increasing them to quell unrest.
It is also hard to see how repeated demands for short-term subsidies support the process of change necessary for farming businesses to meet the increasing challenges of the global marketplace.
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If all goes as the supporters hope, those already insured will see a modest drop in their premiums, lower-income residents will be offered new, more-affordable plans and subsidies to help them pay for coverage, and those who can afford insurance but refuse will face increasing tax penalties until they obtain coverage.
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