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In the short term, Syria and its neighbors are already paying the price of America’s inability to focus on anything other than domestic politics since Obama’s re-election.
The administration is paying the price for overselling the reasons for the war and bungling the post-invasion occupation.
Too many people are collecting benefits relative to those working and paying taxes.
Italy is now paying 7% interest annually on its sovereign debt, while its economy is growing at only 1%.
More surprisingly, Copenhagen’s politicians have confidently declared that cutting CO2 now will ultimately make the city and its citizens wealthier, with today’s expensive green-energy investments more than paying off when fossil-fuel prices rise.
But this does not make governments’ political task much easier, because the benefits are diffuse: consumers paying less for airline tickets may not attribute it to deregulation.
This may be a humane thing to do, for it gives every individual a chance, irrespective of the genetic odds against their paying their way for the company.
As a result, US companies are holding an estimated $2.6 trillion in foreign earnings abroad, rather than repatriating it and paying taxes that could be used to finance, say, domestic infrastructure investment.
Perhaps observers should be paying a little less attention to the “who” and a bit more to the “what.”
Trapped in the aftermath of a wrenching balance-sheet recession, US families remain fixated on deleveraging – paying down debt and rebuilding their income-based saving balances.
Offenders must realize the seriousness of their offences by the kind of sentences they get, but there must be hope, hope that the offender can become a useful member of society, after paying the price they owe to society.
There is certainly nothing wrong with that, but it does seem odd that customers are effectively paying a firm for the privilege of donating their DNA to its database.
The transitional independent privatization agency proposed by Jean-Claude Juncker for paying the Greek debt is not a good idea.
The state-owned EDF, which normally exports power, ended up paying 10 times the price of domestic power, incurring a financial cost of €300 million.
And Saudi Arabia is unlikely to start paying attention now, when it is facing a perfect storm of problems, beginning with rock-bottom oil prices.
Paying for a rate cut by eliminating various corporate credits and deductions would simplify the code and trim the cost of compliance.
Current US law blunts this disadvantage by allowing US companies to defer paying US tax on profits earned abroad by foreign affiliates until they are repatriated to their US owners.
Not only have they enabled investors to avoid paying for their poor decisions; they have also given overpriced southern European countries the opportunity to defer real depreciation in the form of a reduction of relative prices of goods.
Incumbent directors typically nominate themselves, and the company pays their election expenses (for soliciting votes from distant and dispersed shareholders, producing voting materials, submitting legal filings, and, when an election is contested, paying for high-priced US litigation).
If so, the true reason why academics missed the crisis could be far more mundane than inadequate models, ideological blindness, or corruption, and thus far more worrisome; many simply were not paying attention!
Similarly, it suits the US that Europe should remain on the sidelines of the Israel-Palestine conflict while paying €1 billion a year to finance the stalemate.
And, lest we forget, Middle Israel is earning the money and paying the taxes that support a wide assortment of traditionalists, fundamentalists, chauvinists, and other extremists – Jewish and Muslim – from Gaza to Jerusalem to the West Bank.
Using solar, Germany is paying about $1,000 per ton of CO2 reduced.
The price of anarchy is a price well worth paying if we want to preserve innovation through serendipity.
And, as I have noted previously, people are not only paying greater attention; they also have more power than ever before to make their voices heard.
Company stewardship and country stewardship are increasingly linked, and authorities now recognize that paying to ensure good governance now is far less costly (both financially and politically) than paying for the consequences of bad governance later.
The private sector was not spared with mining companies being accused of under paying their taxes.
At the same time, we are paying a king’s ransom for biomass.
And while discretionary adjustments do take place, they hardly provide full compensation to countless households that end up paying more tax than they should.
Surely, they should want to do more than use the current economic upswing to provide piddling handouts to various constituencies (except those paying the most in taxes, of course).
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