Cutting
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Today, the Kingdom is contemplating what was once unthinkable:
cutting
Egypt off.
Cutting
taxes is certainly not bad in principle, especially for supporting long-term investment and growth.
By some measures, nearly half of all Americans do not pay any income tax already, so
cutting
taxes skews an already very unequal income distribution.
The Japanese scare story of the 1990s, in which monetary and fiscal policy prove powerless in the face of a sustained deflation, is the economic trauma now used to rationalize Bush's vast 10-year program of tax
cutting.
Research in enzymology and nucleic acid chemistry led to techniques for
cutting
and rejoining segments of DNA.
And given that France, it now seems clear, has not benefited from loose policy, Macron should be able to forge a consensus on
cutting
taxes and expenditures.
One of them comes with this week’s G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, where leaders of the world’s advanced and major emerging economies can signal serious intent by
cutting
the fossil-fuel subsidies that fuel global warming.
Other measures, such as
cutting
funding for public education, are likely to reduce demand now and lower aggregate supply over the long run.
While global warming is a serious challenge (and will exacerbate other problems),
cutting
carbon emissions is a poor solution – and a poor use of funds compared to the alternatives.
Rather than acknowledge the problem and revise policies accordingly, Rousseff allegedly resorted to dodgy accounting tricks to enable her government ostensibly to meet its primary-surplus target without
cutting
social transfers, even as commodity prices collapsed.
Though there is a consensus that the retirement age should be raised from 60 to 65, there is strong resistance to
cutting
benefits.
Beijing has leveraged this role by employing trade to punish those that refuse to toe its line, including by imposing import bans on specific products, halting strategic exports (such as rare-earth minerals),
cutting
off tourism from China, and encouraging domestic consumer boycotts or protests against foreign businesses.
Moreover, the Government and the IMF are gambling that newly re-elected President Fernando Henrique Cardoso will win domestic and international confidence by a strong program of
cutting
the budget deficit.
We can disagree with him on railway reform or the migrant crisis, on tomorrow’s budget or future spending cuts, on his indifference to former political veterans, or his obsession with being on the
cutting
edge.
Putin knows that a pro-Western, pro-NATO Ukraine would present a major obstacle to Russian dominance in Eurasia, potentially
cutting
off Russia’s access to the Black Sea and, most important, providing a model to his opponents at home.
Though Saudi Arabia's motivation in not
cutting
production was probably almost entirely economic, low oil prices could also offer distinct political advantages.
But a genuine NATO-wide missile-defense system, in which the US grants its partners a decision-making role, would require the Europeans to do more than simply provide cost-neutral contributions – a problem at a time when all of the NATO countries are
cutting
their defense budgets sharply.
Blaming China merely impedes the heavy lifting that must be done at home – namely, boosting saving by
cutting
budget deficits and encouraging households to save income rather than rely on asset bubbles.
In Brazil, the government has been
cutting
an enormous fiscal deficit just as the economy is recovering from its deepest recession in decades (though the corruption scandal now embroiling President Michel Temer may derail that effort).
The US Federal Reserve, for example, is aggressively
cutting
interest rates to forestall a possible recession.
Alexis Tsipras, the head of the Coalition of the Radical Left has a valid point: “internal devaluation” –
cutting
wages and prices – is failing as a strategy.
In fact, term limits could do just the opposite,
cutting
short the tenure of effective leaders, leading to policy disruptions, or even leading to political chaos.
Most face constitutional requirements to run balanced budgets, which means that such states are now either raising taxes or
cutting
expenditures –a negative stimulus that offsets at least some of the Federal government’s positive stimulus.
A more coherent strategy would involve
cutting
off al-Shabaab’s funding and addressing the grievances – such as human-rights abuses against Somalis, discrimination against Muslims, foreign meddling in Somalia, and corruption – that motivate its recruits.
In view of this global challenge, the G-8 countries have made a heroic decision: the eight richest industrial countries – which are also the largest polluters – promised to “seriously examine”
cutting
their emissions in half by 2050.
No wonder, then, that when President Donald Trump justifies
cutting
aid on the grounds that other countries need to step up because they are not paying their fair share, many people believe him.
Cutting
speed limits to, say, 10 kilometers per hour would prevent most accidents and save many lives.
What defines the Kyoto approach, of course, is a single-minded focus on
cutting
carbon-dioxide emissions.
The Hartwell group proposes that we adopt three basic climate-related goals: ensuring secure, affordable energy supplies for everyone (which means developing alternatives to fossil fuels); ensuring that economic development doesn’t wreak environmental havoc (which means not just reducing CO2 emissions, but also
cutting
indoor pollution from burning biomass, reducing ozone, and protecting tropical forests); and making sure that we are prepared to cope with whatever climate changes may occur, man-made or natural (which means recognizing, at last, the importance of adapting to climate change).
At the same time, the group adds, we must recognize that we won’t make any real progress in
cutting
CO2 emissions until we can provide developing economies with affordable alternatives to the fossil fuels on which they currently depend.
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