Taking away this state subsidy would allow the advertising market to operate efficiently and reduce marketing costs.
After years of investigation, the European Commission this year fined one such, Westdeutsche Landesbank, for receiving a state subsidy.
In fact, their lending is best seen as a form of state subsidy.
Over the past decade, the Royal Opera's state subsidy has been cut by more than 30%, while private funding has also shrunk.
One proposal, which would greatly reduce the chances of any state subsidy distorting the market, would be to privatise Europe's many publicly-owned airports.
It tinkered with funding arrangements in 1998, when it introduced small student fees to cover part of the cost of tuition, and supplement the much larger state subsidy.
It has recently ducked clashes with the Germans, over coal subsidies, and with the French, when it decided to evade a European Court judgment against a state subsidy to Air France.
QE3 is an enormous state subsidy to do that.
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Coupled with disappearing state subsidy programs for solar development across Europe, the Chinese sales are said to have made it difficult for even the strongest Euro firms to compete or even survive.
Under the original BABs program, the Treasury Department makes direct subsidy payments to State and local governmental issuers in a subsidy amount equal to 35 percent of the coupon interest on the bonds.
According to a 2008 investigation by Iowa Auditor David Vaudt, 80% of tax credits issued under the state's film-subsidy program had been issued improperly (to production companies that weren't even spending the money in Iowa, for example).
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European solar has taken a beating over the past three years as countries have tried to address the costs of stat subsidy programs with dwindling state coffers.
Last month, the State Council announced the long-awaited subsidy program for purchases of home appliances.
The report suggests raising taxes but also stop attacking private companies, and reducing a ruinous subsidy on gasoline and to state-run companies.
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Pertamina, the state-owned firm that administers the subsidy, is facing a desperate cash crunch, and has resorted to running down its stocks.
One idea being bandied about entails replacing the tax exclusion for interest on state and local bonds with a direct subsidy to the issuer of 15% for the interest paid on those bonds.
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Or to put it another way, the big issue, of what Lloyds, RBS, HSBC and Barclays need to do for society to repay the implicit support and subsidy they receive from the state, isn't going away.
Like BABs, AFF Bonds would be conventional taxable bonds issued by State and local governments in which the Federal government makes direct payments to State and local governmental issuers in a subsidy amount equal to 28 percent of the coupon interest on the bonds.
Deficits -- at national and state levels and one resulting from the oil subsidy -- add up.
Having learned the lessons of such subsidy deals, the framers of the state constitution included what is known as the gift clause.
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It also raised state-set prices of diesel to lower its subsidy payout as part of a plan to reduce its budget deficit.
It has also raised state-set prices of diesel to lower its subsidy payout, besides setting up a panel to fast-track large industrial projects.
Without question, if dropped, most employees making under 400% FPL will find their way to an exchange, whether state or federally-run, to pick up the subsidy, ballooning the total cost of the law.
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New Mexico State's athletic department got a nearly 70% subsidy in 2009-10, weighted by the albatross of a football team that hasn't reached a bowl in 51 years. (Neither UAB nor New Mexico State responded to a request for comment.) Meanwhile, public funding for universities has plummeted.
They would abolish tuition fees for universities, which would mean either letting the quality of British higher education slide still further or raising the subsidy to mostly well-off students by increasing state funding.
For someone in the upper federal brackets living in a high-tax state, this can amount to a 40% or more government subsidy of borrowing costs.
One hope is that ringfencing will stop the subsidy that investment banks get by piggybacking on retail banks' state-underwritten balance-sheets.
In most states, solar installations are driven by state renewable energy incentives that can be added to the federal 30% subsidy known as the investment tax credit.
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Mr. Bloomberg said the coalition supported the state's decision in 2011 to curtail funding for a rent-subsidy program, called Advantage, that helped homeless people make the transition from shelters to permanent housing.
Soria and his party have placed the blame for the deficit on what they have called unsustainable subsidy programs, which shifted the heavy weight of transition costs to the state rather than the consumer.
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