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It must be raised again this summer if the United States government is to continue paying its bills on time.
Public concern about this issue has been made much worse by claims that the rich get even richer by paying little tax.
Conditional cash transfers are also widely accepted in poor countries, and de facto they involve paying mothers to do such things as send their children to school or take them to clinics to be vaccinated.
The apparent explanation is that parents treated the fines as fees, and did not feel guilty about paying them.
With large numbers of India’s young unable to find paying jobs, no issue looms larger in the minds of the 65% of the population that is under 35.
By June 2006, this effort was paying off.
Beyond that, stories of highly profitable banks paying huge bonuses to their executives have also inspired people to think that things are not so bad in the business world.
People in the rich world think globalization resembles an implacably malignant force that snatches away well paying jobs and sends them to faraway places; people in developing countries think it ushers in a self-obsessed consumerist ethic on a train of corrupt privatization and environmental destruction.
Companies would then be free to repatriate their pre-existing earnings without paying any additional tax, while future foreign earnings could, as in other countries, be repatriated by paying a low 5% tax.
We know that a 17-fold increase in the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere over the last century is part of the price of the surge in our prosperity, and that the world’s poorest citizens will bear the heaviest burden in paying it.
The worst has been mitigated and obscured in the wealthy countries by running up unprecedented levels of debt, but any moderately streetwise person knows that the next generation – and even the one after that – will be paying for the excesses of the investment bankers.
Now they are less enthusiastic, though Argentina, not the IMF, is paying the price.
But bankers’ political tin ear in the aftermath of the crisis – first taking public bailouts and then paying themselves huge bonuses as if nothing had changed – ensured that they got the lion’s share of the blame, with everyone else willing to pose as their unwitting victims.
But elsewhere, in more fragile democracies, environmental campaigners who stand up to polluters are paying with their lives.
Is it fair to expect Egyptians to continue paying for their previous repression and impoverishment at the hands of Mubarak and his cronies?
To be sure, a growing number of mainstream economists are paying attention to the costs of unfettered global markets.
In 2014, IKEA started paying living wages based on the MIT calculator, and other companies have since followed suit.
Anyone who has been paying attention has known for some time that the historic changes taking place today did not originate in Germany.
Universities, in turn, can become caught in a zero-sum competition of ever-increasing expenditure to attract paying students.
An increase in the corporate-tax rate appeals to many US voters who believe that corporations are not paying their fair share of taxes and are worried about widening income inequality.
Paying other people to deal with one’s problems might be a successful short-term solution, but it is rarely viable in the longer term.
The real story, as 2016 showed, is often playing out in places to which the media is paying no attention.
Some countries – for example, Germany, Sweden, and South Korea – have “hidden” their joblessness by paying firms to keep workers on the payroll.
To its credit, the G20 has started paying more attention to Africa in recent years.
The party is paying the price for surrendering in panic over the years to Tea Party zealots backed by disgracefully large treasure chests of billionaires’ loot.
And, if we think managers are paying more attention than ever to quarterly results, we might think we have found the culprit.
What will happen when, in a few years, a huge and growing chunk of the national budget must be dedicated to paying foreign debt instead of funding education or health care?
Taxpayers end up paying for these exposures, as do retirees and others who rely on returns from their savings.
Then, at the last minute, the Macron campaign’s computers were hacked, releasing a trove of emails revealing that members of the candidate’s party had engaged in nefarious activities, like paying their employees, reserving tables at restaurants, and exchanging files for each other to read.
Sponsors would invariably ask “Wait, what I am paying for, isn’t the computer the real-world champion?”
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