If being governed, or over-governed, is a privilege for America's citizens, shouldn't everyone pay for the privilege?
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Yes, I pay for the privilege of being there but we all charge the same fees and we have fewer customers attempting to not pay.
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Twitter bots tend to follow tons of people, not just people who pay for the privilege.
Some may even have had to pay for the privilege of coming to work.
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If you want to see another score later on, you will have to pay for the privilege.
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However, execs at big telecoms want to create a system of privilege for people who can pay more.
They should be made to pay for the privilege by either refraining from campaign activity or disclosing their donors.
Julian Brazil, who is leader of the Liberal Democrat Group for South Hams District Council, said they "should pay for the privilege".
French economics: you must pay for the privilege of sending us money.
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The point about games is that they make players want to perform difficult tasks and pay for the privilege, says Brian Burke of Gartner, a consultancy.
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The old line was that high-quality cars came almost exclusively from Germany and Japan, and you had to pay for the privilege of the "right" nation of origin.
It's a sign of the times when out-of-work footballers are willing to pay for the privilege of going on trial in the hope of winning a part-time contract.
Some say they did not understand what he was after, others that they did, but thought they had to pay for the privilege of hanging out with a celebrity.
Similarly the price traders have been willing to pay for the privilege of borrowing Netflix shares, another reliable proxy for the demand to sell short, has been climbing steadily since summer.
Second, which institutions would be covered by the new regime, how would they pay for the privilege (if at all), and would they then be viewed as too big to fail?
When Dalton Caldwell launched App.net (aka ADN) in August, to the naked eye it appeared to be a clone of Twitter with the twist that users had to pay for the privilege.
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With much of the signage in English, Hong Kong works well as an Asia 101 introduction (although, compared to the rest of the continent, you will certainly pay for the privilege to explore it).
One prominent facet of such a structure would be an agreement to continue the presence of Soviet forces in East Germany with the West Germans obliged to pay for the privilege of such an occupation.
Many such funds have sales charges of 4% to 5% and continuing fees of more than 1% a year, a high price to pay for the privilege of collecting an extra point or two per year in yield.
Should we continue to pay for the privilege of Yasir Arafat remaining at the peace table, or should we insist that he make good on his obligations to halt terrorism and to apprehend and extradite PLO members who have harmed Americans and should he now account for the funds now streaming into his coffers?
But even if you accept Mr. Geithner's case that the well-to-do must pay more for their presumed "privilege" of being governed, his story ignores the empirical fact that they already do pay a record share of income taxes, even relative to their share of income.
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Corporations pay nominally for this privilege via an industry consortium called the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center.
Bank deposit rates are lower than the pace of inflation, meaning savers effectively pay banks for the privilege of handling their money.
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That is, speakers pay promoters for the privilege of pitching their products to you, as well as for assets steered to them.
Why should I pay you for the privilege of driving a cab in your city, the taxi driver asks, when my competitor is free from such obligations?
Feeney never slaps his name on a library or hospital, since he can collect additional money for the project from more egocentric tycoons who gladly pay millions for the privilege.
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Given how intertwined its own business as a purveyor of soccer content will continue to be with the fortunes of the Premier League, Sky will continue to pay mightily for the privilege.
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