While a payroll tax increase from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent may seem tiny, it is a bad idea.
It is a bad idea, and also an unlawful one.
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Another former U.K. rate-setter and arch-dove, David Blanchflower, has pointed out that even if nominal-GDP targeting was a good idea in theory, it is a bad idea in practice because nominal GDP is hard to measure and prone to large revisions.
The moral of the story is that there is no magic point where deficit spending leads to a fiscal crisis, but we do know that it is a bad idea for governments to engage in reckless spending over a long period of time.
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But the side effects of giving huge multinational corporations and foreign corporations the power over Americans to steal their new ideas, which will undermine our economy , not even to mention what it does to the lives of these poor inventors who spent their whole lives trying to develop something, this shows that it is a bad idea on a number of levels .
Nevertheless, it is not a bad idea to invest in technology companies that are going after government customers.
Nonetheless, it is a very bad idea, because if the ship does not make it, you are really screwed.
But, as security expert Bruce Schneier pointed out, there actually is a fire, so maybe shouting about it is not such a bad idea.
In fact, I think starting any sentence with "just between us" is almost guaranteed to ensure that what you are about to say will not stay confidential, in the same way that it is usually a bad idea to precede any complex physical action with "Watch this!"
It is generally a bad idea to try shooting anywhere in the precincts of the Grand Mosque without "permissions" -- an action likely to get you arrested, if not attacked by the over-zealous amongst the pilgrims who regard the taking of images as "haraam" or religiously forbidden.
The goal is worthy, but entrusting it to the NIH is a bad idea.
In fact, In an Alice of Wonderland world, because it takes more billable hours to get a bad idea revised before it is brought up front to customers, Advertisers actually reward an agency more when it comes up with a bad idea.
Is it a good or bad idea to give this supplement to kids whose sleep schedules may be thrown off by a time change or some other factor?
If it's after hours and the bank is closed, it might not be a bad idea to put it back.
It is also, unfortunately, a bad idea and a potential electoral disaster.
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Writing Secure Code notes that logging on to your computer as a member of the administrators group--with privileges to do anything to the computer, some of it downright nasty--is a bad idea, except when absolutely necessary.
What I will say is that it is unacceptable, it is not good for the economy and therefore a very bad idea to set up a scenario where we do this constantly every two weeks.
Not surprisingly it shows that even temporary default is a bad idea.
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According to Cleland, it seems, any new regulation is a bad idea.
Elite: Dangerous, on the other hand, began its Kickstarter drive by basically phoning it in, which is not only a bad idea, but a puzzling one given that Frontier is a company of some 235 employees according to Nathan Grayson.
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Being complacent or panicking when it comes to your investments is almost always a bad idea.
And the thing is, everyone knew that it was a bad idea at the start but they went ahead anyway.
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Singling out a small segment of the population for a tax hike is a bad idea as it fuels the politics of envy.
So if Britain comes to the conclusion that joining the euro is a bad idea, it will face a range of unappealing choices.
As he once told journalists, pushing a rat into a corner is a bad idea, because it will jump and chase you.
Building a platform for the cloud does not seem such a bad idea, since it is precisely what many in the industry are trying to do.
Using the "friend" method for the vaccine against that virus, distributed for the first time this week, would not be a bad idea, although it is still a new concept that needs to be tested, Fowler said.
What is a bad idea is the way it's been designed and certainly implemented.
It has been folk wisdom within medicine that using benzodiazepines for a long time is a bad idea.
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