Most of the expenditures for both Medicaid, and to a large measure, Medicare are for long term care expenditures.
Thus, spending money is no longer the difference maker, but rather the most effective use of the expenditures becomes what differentiates one firm from another.
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Supply them for a minimal fee to students (with scholarships and grants for kids who meet economic qualifications), and note to parents that this will replace a lot of the expenditures for school items (paper, pencils, etc) from now on.
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Best Buy said the jump was driven by the addition of new stores, expanded investments, the timing of discretionary expenditures and the impact of other nonrecurring items, as well as fluctuations in foreign currency rates.
One of the strengths of federalism, long since weakened by the rise of federal funding for state programs, was that voters of each state could see the link between state government expenditures and the cost of those expenditures as taxes paid by state residents.
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It was theorized the graduation and exemption of many from the tax would result in less of a check on the extravagances of federal expenditures.
In February 2009, the New York State Public Service Commission (NYSPSC) commenced a proceeding to examine the prudence of certain CECONY expenditures following the arrests of employees for accepting illegal payments from a construction contractor.
Yet, they are probably sustaining huge losses because of the marketing expenditures.
The tax code would be simpler, and probably fairer, if we reduced the number of tax expenditures for the wealthy and non-wealthy alike.
And if you look at where the benefit of those tax expenditures go, the vast majority of special provisions and preferential rates are for those with the highest incomes.
In my recent post on the growth of health-care expenditures, I overstated the role of physician pay in contributing to health care inflation (my bad).
It is the sum of consumption, investment, government expenditures and the net of exports minus imports.
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The majority report also acknowledges that another major question that grew out of the election was left unanswered: whether a big increase in "issue advocacy" advertising by nonprofit groups was an improper attempt to influence the outcome of elections, and whether the groups' "independent expenditures" were truly independent of the campaigns they benefited.
But slowing the rise of health-care costs can't address the challenge of adding 50 million uninsured to the system while keeping expenditures the same or even somewhat lower than the unsustainable percentage of national wealth that they already represent.
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The report cites other benefits such as the avoidance of major capital expenditures associated with new power plants and even the retirements of some older and less efficient generators.
Tax reform must reduce the size and number of tax expenditures to reduce the budget deficit and lower marginal tax rates for individuals and corporations.
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Chopping away at the thicket of tax expenditures would reclaim some or all of the revenue lost to the rate cut and raise taxes on affected households.
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But they have most of the burden of keeping, you know, the really high overhead of record label expenditures in check for all these other bands that aren't selling anything.
As Toomey points out in his op-ed, since only approximately 6.5% of all projected federal government expenditures will go to pay interest on the national debt, and since tax revenue is projected to cover about 67% of all government expenditures, the federal government has available ten times in revenue what it requires to fully service the debt.
Thus, the order cancellation is primarily an effort on part of the airline to save on expenditures and add capacity at a slower pace in light of the uncertain macroeconomic environment.
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One of the biggest public expenditures, that for education, is a sure wealth builder.
Cohen says security is one of the highest single expenditures a celebrity will make in a year.
It is a system that attracts students, both undergraduates and graduate students from all over the world, it's a system that in terms of research, facilities, capital expenditures, the quality of faculty, continues to be by many accounts the best in the world.
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The Office of Management and Budget coordinates estimates for purposes of producing the budget and also publishes its own list of tax expenditures (which it gets from the Treasury).
But they've done little to curb the natural growth of the nearly 180 federal tax expenditures already on the books, including such biggies as the deduction for home mortgage interest and the tax exclusion for employer-provided health care benefits.
It is hard to hold your state representatives accountable for their expenditures when you cannot feel the full burden of their expenditures through your taxes.
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By ridding the nation of Taxation and instituting borrowing to fund public expenditures, the nation will shed all those costs of Taxation in deterrence and government excess for the negligible fee of borrowing in the financial markets and the administration of public debt.
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But whatever we are able to do in the six remaining -- funding of the six remaining months of fiscal year 2011 will not, obviously, address in any complete way -- cannot possibly -- the need for longer-term reform of entitlement programs and tax reform, tax expenditures, and the drivers of long-term debt.
The payment comes in the form of a grant based on a percentage of the film's expected expenditures in Australia.
Many economists say the corporate income tax makes little sense, since the government can more efficiently raise the same amount of revenue by taxing dividends, salaries and other business expenditures when they hit the accounts of individual taxpayers.
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