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Americans seem to believe that they have a natural right to government services without paying taxes.
By supporting polluting and inhumane practices, countries are literally paying companies to undermine the emissions targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
This month, Australia’s 400 largest polluters will begin paying a fixed tax of A$23 ($24) per carbon ton that they emit, covering more than 60% of the country’s emissions.
A few years ago, however, I started paying attention to space again.
America is paying an astounding $51 billion per year to station 140,000 troops in the country, a staggering cost of around $360,000 per soldier per year.
Repay some debt: It sounds counterintuitive, but countries in default should consider paying some of their debts – on their own terms and on a graduated basis – as a way to rebuild creditworthiness.
Higher oil prices mean that Americans (and Europeans and Japanese) are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Middle East oil dictators and oil exporters elsewhere in the world rather than spending it at home.
America, and the world, will be paying to repair it for decades to come.
But here, too, the Berlin-Brussels-Frankfurt axis blackmailed local taxpayers into paying for foreign banks’ mistakes – presenting the Irish with a €64 billion ($87 billion) bill, roughly €14,000 per person, for banks’ bad debt – while imposing massive austerity.
The government will find it impossible to fulfill basic obligations, such as paying salaries and pensions, and the country will formally default.
The WHO started paying attention to NCDs in the 1970s, when it launched its first programs to reduce cardiovascular disease.
Paying someone else to fold your socks is a way to maximize your own earnings and those of the sock folder.
Banks were too busy collecting fees on new loans, and paying their managers outlandish bonuses.
Similar abuses were committed by Peru’s security services during the 1990’s – crimes for which former President Alberto Fujimori is now paying.
Arkansas has moved 20 different “episodes” of health-care delivery (including hip and knee replacements, pregnancy, colonoscopies, asthma, and congestive heart failure) from fee-for-service to paying for quality outcomes.
The eurozone’s unemployment rate, at 10.9%, is at its highest level since the euro was introduced, and young people everywhere, as the first to suffer the consequences of the crisis, are paying a disproportionally high price.
Budget room will be scarce for many other worthwhile programs, among them: aid to poor countries, where the US is scandalously stingy; paying dues in arrears to the UN; creating jobs for mothers who will, under the cruel welfare "reform" Clinton signed in 1996, be denied public assistance for themselves and their children.
The right’s deregulation mantra was simply wrong, and we are now paying the price.
All other expenses “lie where they fall”: the more troops and equipment a country contributes to a mission, the more it ends up paying.
Advocates of greater labor-market flexibility insist that paying employers to hire young people is the wrong approach.
People could benefit from the subsidy only by engaging in productive work – that is, a job that employers deem worth paying something for.
The rallying call against paying foreign debt, which was ubiquitous in Latin America in the 1980’s, was buried when the Argentinean government did the same thing, committing one-third of its reserves to pay in advance its debts to the IMF.
Paying the recalcitrant bondholders would mean losing face and possibly triggering a salvo of copycat lawsuits; not paying would mean technical default and all of its attendant costs.
It is composed of highly profitable multinational companies, now investing and hiring workers; advanced economies’ rescued banks paying off their emergency bailout loans; the growing middle and upper classes in emerging economies buying more goods and services; a healthier private sector paying more taxes, thereby alleviating pressure on government budgets; and Germany, Europe’s economic power, reaping the fruit of years of economic restructuring.
Paying the interest requires higher federal taxes or a larger budget deficit.
For much of 2012 and 2013, the Spanish and Italian governments were paying 5.5-7% for ten-year money, while the German rate was below 2%.
Spain and Italy are paying only around 150 basis points more than Germany.
Special import privileges, say, for the right to import foodstuffs into Moscow without paying duties, were reportedly given to members of Yeltsin's entourage.
Soon, potential chess sponsors began to balk at paying millions of dollars to host championship matches between humans.
That means paying for it on the public-sector side, via taxes and a reduction in household consumption (and in wealth accumulation).
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