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If Europe deteriorates, or there is gridlock in dealing with America’s “fiscal cliff” at the beginning of 2013 (when tax cuts expire and automatic spending cuts kick in), a major downturn will become far more likely.
And these caps would have an automatic stabilizer built into their design to ensure that future costs to taxpayers are more effectively controlled.
With America facing a “fiscal cliff” – automatic tax increases and spending cuts at the start of 2013 that will most likely drive the economy into recession unless bipartisan agreement on an alternative fiscal path is reached – could there be anything worse than continued political gridlock?
Indeed, I publicly advocated linking stimulus spending to such contingencies – creating an automatic stabilizer.
At the same time, the automatic tax audits and asset-disclosure requirements that have been in place since 2016 have been expanded to apply to a greater number of civil servants; and the definition of “conflict of interest” has been stretched ever further.
But it does mean that a rise in the dollar is not automatic or inevitable if the Fed raises interest rates next month.
Some states have delivered automatic weapons, ammunition, and rocket-propelled grenades.
In addition to the automatic decline in tax revenues and increase in social-welfare spending during a recession, many nations added large spending increases and/or tax cuts to try to stimulate their economies.
The automatic increase in the deficit has also been largest in the US, modest in the UK and Germany, and smaller in Japan, India, Canada, China, France, and Italy.
These automatic effects should soon begin to reverse as economic activity recovers, but there is much debate, including at the G-8 and G-20 meetings, over whether the discretionary stimulus should be extended or ended, repeated or reversed.
All economists agree that we should allow the automatic stabilizers to work.
Likewise, as David Autor of MIT has pointed out, the automatic teller machine (ATM) displaced human bank tellers, but so reduced the cost of branches that their number rose, fueling an increase in employees focused on customer relationship management (for which ATMs are less than ideal).
And its automatic stabilizers, with spending automatically increasing as economic woes increased, held out the promise of moderating the downturn.
It was French President Nicolas Sarkozy who, in the run-up to the last EU summit, called a halt to Merkel’s attempt to introduce an automatic response to member states that violate the stability criteria.
In simple language: forget about any punishment or automatic trigger mechanisms that might affect a country’s sovereignty.
China's response to the SARS epidemic suggests an almost automatic defensiveness when the outside world seems to impinge on it or threaten it in some potentially harmful or embarrassing way.
But the high abstention rate in this election – the first with automatic registration and non-mandatory voting – also means that Bachelet will become President with fewer votes than any of her predecessors since democracy was restored in 1990.
The reduction in income levels at international prices means that many more people in China and India are now classified as poor – an automatic boon for the World Bank, whose primary business is to end poverty.
But such an outcome is unlikely, given that the agreement lacks any enforcement mechanism, such as the automatic eviction of Russia from the SWIFT financial transfer system should it renege on any aspect of the agreement.
States that implemented Article 26 agree to exchange information upon request, but not to the automatic disclosure of information.
Citizens in a democracy would never allow their government to have an automatic right of forced entry into their homes on the off-chance of finding stolen goods, so why should the state have an automatic right of forced entry into bank accounts on the off-chance of finding a few tax evaders or criminals?
Two recent proposals incorporating these conditions call for the creation of “individual security accounts” analogous to US Social Security accounts, but encompassing portable benefits that would be available to all workers, regardless of employment status, and would accrue via pro-rated automatic payroll contributions.
Keynesian economics worked: if not for stimulus measures and automatic stabilizers, the recession would have been far deeper and longer, and unemployment much higher.
The Fund would administer Kosmos on the basis of a transparent digital distributed ledger and an algorithm that would adjust total supply in a pre-agreed manner to the volume of world trade, allowing for an automatic countercyclical component that boosts global supply at times of a general slowdown.
The effect of automatic stabilizers in the economic downturn, state support for banks, and the fiscal stimulus packages adopted by governments all undermine fiscal sustainability.
Moreover, an increase in the demand for broadband connection has triggered the launch of an $800 million “Jin Dun (Golden Shield) Project,” an automatic digital system of public policing that will help prolong Communist rule by denying China’s people the right to information.
Unlike most other developed countries, Germany’s tax system lacks an automatic adjustment mechanism to prevent inflation from pushing households into higher tax brackets.
Governments and citizens thus have a rich set of options – such as diversity quotas, automatic voter registration, and online referenda – for addressing democratic deficiencies.
Or consider his statement, during his nomination acceptance speech in Cleveland, that, if elected, he would revise NATO’s policy of automatic support for threatened members of the Alliance, or the crude “bill” for $300 billion, the amount Trump claims that Germany owes the US, that he presented to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her recent visit to the US.
There is nothing automatic about that.
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