There is no conceivable public-safety benefit: Insurance policies cover accidents, not intentional crimes, and criminals with illegal guns will just evade the requirement.
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Mr Lyscom says that schools' educational work is a public benefit - and that independent schools have sought to make facilities available to the wider community.
For example, experience with public-private partnerships shows that cost-benefit estimates can sometimes prove wildly optimistic.
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And not every public-accounting flaw is to the benefit of governments: their right to tax is not recognised on balance-sheets, for example.
They do not understand why they should now pay to maintain the more generous defined-benefit pensions of public-sector employees.
Public-sector unions are enjoying defined benefit plans, whereas the rest of lucky America who has a retirement plan has a defined contribution plan.
From an alternative perspective, I mean, could the case be made that since only 2 percent of the funding comes from the federal government that could be a long-term benefit for public broadcasting to cut the purse strings from political pressure?
Typically, public employee unions cling tightly to defined-benefit pensions: only a handful of states, including Michigan and Alaska, have had much success moving non-university employees to defined-contribution plans.
The system was established as a trade-off that provides a public benefit: the state agrees to grant a limited monopoly to an inventor in return for disclosing how the technology works.
To punish private sector defined contribution plans and reward public sector defined benefit plans is egregiously self-serving.
The alternative was to see the private sector's assault on defined-benefit pensions escalate into the public sector, the last safe bastion of such benefits.
But these schools benefit hugely from non-public funding and selection bias.
But analysis by IPPR North shows almost half of major transport projects involving public funding benefit only London and the south-east, accounting for 84% of planned spending.
G4S's activities range from delivering cash to banks to creating security systems for buildings and fire protection systems for America's space agency, NASA. Many of these firms benefit from long experience of public-private partnerships, which were pioneered in Britain (and often have a poor reputation there) but have spread to other countries.
Yet most new public-sector employees in Britain and America continue to benefit from pensions linked to their salaries.
Second, the essence of public health decision-making involves complex tradeoffs and cost-benefit calculations.
When Mr. Romney took office in 2003, the state was already enforcing public utility-style regulation of insurers for premiums and multiple benefit mandates.
Perform duties for the greatest benefit of the public and restrain from seeking self-gain and from being an instrument of any group of people.
Whatever cost-benefit analyses are presented to them, the public, or at least that vocal section of it whose cries for law and order make penal reform electoral suicide, resent this expenditure.
SEC, 463 U.S. 646 (1983), which established that, in order for a tipper to be held liable, they must not only have disclosed material non-public information, but have also received some personal benefit as a result of the disclosure.
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Activists investors like Loeb are still criticized in the U.S. A few weeks ago, for example, Loeb was knocked for allegedly supporting an effort to deny teachers and other public-sector workers guaranteed benefits while raising money from such defined benefit plans for his hedge funds.
Dr Gillian Hawksworth, President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, said there was a "clear public health benefit" to be gained from making statins available over-the-counter.
But ever since disgruntled IBM employees brought the issue to public attention, the movement by major corporations to convert traditional defined-benefit plans to so-called cash-balance pension plans has been a lightning rod for workers'--and particularly baby boomers'--growing anxiety over their retirement incomes.
The report, Generating Economic Benefit and Growth Through Smarter Public Sector Procurement, written by UK-based procurement expert Colin Cram, has been supported by Rosslyn Analytics.
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Ray Story, chief executive of the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, warned that tax rises on e-cigarettes would only benefit tobacco companies, to the detriment of public health.
Even if it means taking a pay cut, many people would benefit from living closer to work -- or closer to public transit -- and getting rid of their cars altogether.
It has at times seemed like the company was being run for the benefit of some sort of early-investor club more than for public shareholders.
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Until now, the competition authorities have not worried about big store-chains squeezing their suppliers, because they have assumed that the public would reap the benefit in lower prices.
The defined-benefits revolution that has swept through the private sector has hardly touched the public one: 90% of American state- and local-government workers have defined-benefit plans, compared with 20% of private-sector workers.
But charters also need to attract one class of candidates who are likely to be very keen on defined-benefit pensions: teachers who have already accrued years of pensionable service in public schools, and who want to keep accruing service so they can reach that rich third decade.
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