Cutting
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This left the regime to choose between using force to quell the growing resistance or
cutting
its losses.
But the current approach to mitigating it, which reflects a single-minded focus on
cutting
carbon dioxide emissions, may end up doing serious harm, as it fails to account for the energy sector’s depletion of water resources – another major contributor to climate change.
Advocates of
cutting
the Gordian knot between private and public finance recognize that governments’ approach to banks must change radically if this separation is to work.
The collapse of credit made matters worse; and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly,
cutting
back inventories.
Corruption must be combated by
cutting
red tape and overhauling the judiciary.
Today, China pursues a “cabbage” approach to borders,
cutting
off access to an adversary’s previously controlled territory and gradually surrounding it with multiple civilian and security layers.
Even today, four years into the crisis, there are no signs that the overly expensive countries in Europe’s southern periphery have begun devaluation in real terms by
cutting
wages and prices.
Two months later, opposition units from Duma and Ghouta were close to
cutting
off Assad’s forces in Damascus from the north of the country, by controlling strategic hills and paralyzing the M5 motorway.
Similarly, the United Kingdom established a cost-review program that identified 40 major projects for prioritization, reformed overall planning processes, and then created a cabinet sub-committee to ensure faster delivery of projects, thereby
cutting
infrastructure spending by 15%.
On that day, the ECB, pressured by Germany, rescinded an important part of its exemption, thereby
cutting
off Greek banks’ direct access to the ECB and diverting them to pricier financing from Greece’s central bank (so-called emergency liquidity assistance).
Cutting
public spending to balance the budget was based on the wrong theory and has failed in practice.
The only secure way to get “trickle-down” wealth to trickle faster is by
cutting
marginal tax rates still further, or, alternatively, by improving the “human capital” of the poor, so that they become worth more to their employers.
Is
cutting
Gazprom down to size a good omen for Russia?
Strange as it may sound, forcing Gazprom to pay its fair share of taxes is a necessary step in
cutting
the state down to size.
If this view is right, the solution is straightforward: China can correct its imbalances by increasing its citizens’ incomes (by
cutting
taxes, raising wages, or increasing social spending), so that they can consume more, thereby reducing the economy’s dependence on exports.
But, if all countries simultaneously attempt to improve their fiscal or external balances by
cutting
spending and raising taxes, all will fail, because each country’s austerity implies less demand for other countries’ output, in turn perpetuating both domestic and external imbalances.
This explains why the Congressional Budget Office gave a pass to the Bush administration’s prosecution of two large wars while
cutting
taxes.
To mitigate the effects of a US recession and global economic slump, the Fed and other central banks should be
cutting
rates much more aggressively, rather than relying on modest liquidity injections that are bound to fail.
But it can do so while
cutting
greenhouse-gas emissions and dramatically
cutting
the terrible air pollution that blights its major cities.
Because increased demand for bio-fuels leads to
cutting
down carbon-rich forests, a 2008 Science study showed that the net effect of using them is not to cut CO2 emissions, but to double them.
To borrow from computer language, these are "virtual" parties,
cutting
across today’s organized political parties, and which include adherents of both new "parties."
Should the fiscal deficit be reduced by raising taxes or
cutting
spending?
By
cutting
ties with Germany, Russia would effectively sever all links with the West, thereby accelerating its own decline.
That is why countries around the world have been
cutting
their corporate-tax rates.
Indeed,
cutting
these items to “pay for” a reduction in the corporate-tax rate could end up increasing the tax on corporate economic activity in the US.
Instead of
cutting
proven tax incentives for business investment, the US should offset at least some of the revenue losses from a lower corporate-tax rate by raising tax rates on corporate shareholders.
The cleavage lies in a very different visions about the state and it goes beyond questions about how to divide America’s budget surplus between increased spending or
cutting
taxes.
Recent research suggests that an increase in the minimum wage would have a powerful positive effect, with a 10% increase
cutting
the poverty rate by 2%.
Jokowi has a long track record of good governance, having implemented effective policies during his stint as Mayor of Surakarta (such as refurbishing markets, relocating slum dwellers, and
cutting
bureaucratic red tape), and as Governor of Jakarta (where he broadened access to health care and education).
The economic and social consequences of a generation of tax
cutting
are clear.
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