Throwing the book at minor offenders is a policy choice made by state lawmakers.
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The election campaign in the U.S. hasn't even focused on this next crisis, perhaps because no policy choice sounds like a winner.
In a sense, however, the fact that states and districts are laying off teachers and cutting pre-K and other programs is itself a form of policy choice.
Both Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers explain to him that the globalization and deregulation of finance that they helped to bring about when they were in government was a historical inevitability, not a policy choice.
It isn't only Germany's Europe of Rules that is restricting policy choice: Policy makers are also held back by fear of the financial markets and by their past promises, such as that Greece would be the last euro-zone government to restructure its debt.
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Tory Glyn Davies suggested there would be no need for a referendum on the devolution of income tax if the four main parties included the idea in their election manifestos (although conversely, you could argue that the absence of policy choice was an argument for a referendum).
All in all, I think protecting a sphere where people can exercise their choice making powers is a laudable and important public policy goal, because protecting choice can be a good way to build it, and because sometimes even bad choices are better than none.
Another suggestion has been that the vouchers scheme could be broadened into a policy of allowing greater choice within state-sector schools, which could draw support from some Democrats.
The Tory leader said his party's policy of giving patients more choice over where they are treated would enable hospitals to stamp out the bug.
Given the choice between a policy of more taxes and more government programs that do nothing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and a policy of fewer taxes and fewer government programs that nevertheless result in declining carbon dioxide emissions, I will take the latter.
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But he'll regret that choice unless the other policy reforms he is promising succeed.
Low growth, low inflation, and low policy rates are the weapons of choice in the highly indebted advanced economies.
Even before Nunn came under Clinton's scrutiny, Warren Christopher, deputy secretary of state in the Carter administration who has been mistakenly considered Clinton's first choice for the foreign policy portfolio, was being savaged by rumors of being "too close" to Carter's Middle East policy.
Paul Ryan when he submitted his budget counted what they call OCO savings in his budget because these -- this is the result -- any other policy decision you make is a choice about how much money to spend, and that's what these decisions are.
Until the FAA announces a policy revision, we all have no choice but to reluctantly comply with the ban, but with devices like Google Glass on the horizon, updated restrictions could not come too soon.
Obama's affiliation with Wright aligns with his choice of financial backers and foreign policy advisors.
In his inaugural address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama emphasized "humanity and restraint" in foreign policy and rejected what he called the false choice between America's safety and America's ideals.
The Open Markets Committee will have to make a horrific choice: fight inflation by tightening policy into a weakening economy, or fight recession by allowing inflation to burn out of control.
Partly through choice, but mostly through deliberate council policy, most Somalis have landed in poor black and Muslim districts.
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But with the Obama administration's Middle East policy firmly grounded in La La Land, what choice do they have?
As my former Tax Policy Center colleague Len Burman says, the Perry choice is something like an Alternative Maximum Tax.
No one will remember that Obama was forced to support the sanctions because he had no other choice, since next month his engagement policy will become indefensible.
Now, in the final stretches of the election, it would appear that people have a real choice about what kind of national economic policy they want going forward.
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Obama would face a choice: replace the mandate with a new policy or remove the remaining market reforms.
Sinn Fein Dublin TD Dessie Ellis has made no secret of his personal view that the party's abortion policy doesn't go far enough to allow for choice.
" His exact statement was: "I have no choice than to advise the weak to choose a policy that avoids misfortune.
Yet in America's system of checks and balances, a choice between presidents cannot reliably be made by combing through policy programmes.
But the question of foreign policy in U.S. diplomacy will play heavily in the choice of the people that are going who are going to make for the leadership of this country in the next administration.
And while some settlements do require cash payments by the humans who made the decisions leading to shareholder losses, he said, in general the only choice an insurer can make is to refuse to issue a policy.
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