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Sadly, the Republican Party has been hijacked during the Bush years by sloganeers using code phrases like “illegal immigration” and “protecting the middle class” to mask their racism, and “economic incentive effects” to justify tax policies that are blatantly tilted to the rich.
China’s multitude of export taxes and duties has forced Western companies to pay almost twice as much as their Chinese counterparts, creating a powerful incentive for Western manufacturers to set up shop in the Middle Kingdom to gain cheaper access to these indispensable resources.
The trouble is that many hospitals and doctors rely on drug sales for a large portion of their revenues, which creates a powerful incentive to find ways to circumvent the rules.
Changing the exchange rate would not diminish the incentive for Germans to save.
But the incentive to invest in services would have to be boosted massively, given that the sector is not capital intensive, to offset lower investment in export industries.
Such a tax, moreover, would aim to eliminate the funding advantage that large banks enjoy over their smaller competitors, while limiting the incentive for big banks to become even bigger.
Indeed, we enter 2016 with cheaper gasoline, which weakens the incentive to purchase fuel-efficient automobiles, and lower heating costs, which weakens the incentive to insulate homes.
Because the amount of oil was too small to make much difference on the international oil market, the incentive to act appears purely political – a friendly Iranian wink to the US.
The framers of a refugee system need to consider the rules’ incentive effects on the migrants themselves and on the governments of their countries of origin.
If the West really wants to hurt Putin’s regime, giving oligarchs an incentive to take their money and leave is a lot more effective than punishing those whom Putin considers his enemies.
Carnegie also advocated an inheritance tax as an incentive, arguing that it would “induce the rich man to attend to the administration of wealth during his life.”
Japan depends on fossil fuels imported from abroad (especially the Middle East), so it has particularly strong incentive to minimize energy use.
Instead, they have every incentive to demonstrate the success of their “tough love” policies by easing austerity to accelerate economic growth, not only in Greece but throughout the eurozone.
But, far from a deterrent, this should serve as a powerful incentive to get started.
Poor farmers may lack the capital to invest in it, or may lack the incentive to do so if water is taken directly from publicly available sources or if the government is subsidizing its use.
Indeed, the spike in oil prices actually gives independent producers an incentive to boost production.
By the same token, auditing firms that make more money from consulting than from providing auditing services have a conflict of interest: they have (at least in the short run) an incentive to go easy on their clients, or even, as consultants, to help their clients think of ways - "within the rules," of course -- that improve the appearance of profits.
If these banks also have a commercial bank division, they may have an incentive to maintain credit lines beyond a prudent level, because to cut such lines would put at risk high potential future revenues from mergers and acquisitions and stock and bond issues.
Meanwhile, the core countries, already running trade surpluses (in some cases as high as 6% of GDP), have no incentive to strengthen the aggregate demand that would relieve pressure on their partners.
Simply put, the greater the premium for highly skilled workers, the greater the incentive to find ways to economize on employing their talents.
As skilled labor becomes increasingly expensive relative to unskilled labor, firms and businesses have a greater incentive to find ways to “cheat” by using substitutes for high-price inputs.
Facing the prospect of having to raise additional capital at a time when their shares are selling at a fraction of book value, banks have a powerful incentive to reduce their balance sheets by withdrawing credit lines and shrinking their loan portfolios.
This sets a dangerous precedent, for it creates a powerful incentive – winner takes all, loser goes to prison – for ruthlessness.
This material incentive is in clear breach of the principle that organs should be distributed according to need only.
There is no incentive to over-prescribe, and no evidence of opioid diversion.
The price of plank cedar in Lahore is incentive enough to corrupt, or kill, any Green Corps men brave enough to stand in their way.
After this crisis, it became clear that this incentive was both toxic and precarious.
By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future.
There, the “Funding for Lending Scheme,” jointly designed by the Bank of England and the Treasury, seeks “to boost the incentive for banks and building societies to lend to UK households and non-financial companies,” while holding them accountable for proper behavior.
Consequently, the prospect of entry into the Union provided little incentive to countries for which meeting the stiff criteria was not yet on the cards.
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