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And this is just as true for those demanding bribes as it is for those paying them.
It would be granted only to workers who have been paying regular social-security contributions.
To anyone paying close attention to the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, especially the weakening of many of its key nation-states and the rise of extremist violence, a severe crisis in the Kingdom is no dark-horse candidate.
Every other G-7 country, and 28 of the other 33 OECD members, have “territorial" tax systems, which allow globally engaged companies to repatriate most of their active foreign earnings without paying a significant additional domestic tax.
Europe means nothing but sacrifice: northern Europeans paying for southern Europe’s woes through large transfers, or southern Europeans repaying onerous – and maybe impossible – levels of debt.
The US public is rabidly opposed to paying higher taxes, yet the trend level of taxation (at around 18% of national income) is not sufficient to pay for the core functions of government.
You get what you pay for, and Americans are paying far too little for their children to thrive.
Moreover, women who do have paying jobs outside the home are on the wrong side of a gender wage gap that averages 23%, suggesting that equality is not only about opportunity.
To be sure, Iran’s longstanding support for regional Shiite groups is paying off.
Greece is rapidly running out of money; its residents are withdrawing their deposits and have stopped paying their taxes and utility bills.
The Fed was late in beginning the interest-rate normalization process, and it is now paying a price.
In the end, people are paying to get someone’s attention.
From the sender side, the initial reaction may be, “Why can’t I reach this person without paying?”
But for actual paying customers trying to reach Yahoo!, there may well be a white list of potential advertisers, all writing from their corporate e-mail accounts.
While Japan's government lobbies hard to get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, its Prime Minister regularly flouts Asian opinion by paying his respects to war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine.
Apart from the immorality of such public behavior (imagine a German chancellor paying his respects at Goebbels' grave!), the fact that both China and the US have veto power at the UN suggests that it is stupid even from the standpoint of Realpolitik .
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has insisted on paying an annual visit to the Yasukuni shrine, where Japan’s past aggressive wars are glorified, and where war criminals are among the buried, behavior that China’s government considers unacceptable.
So instead of just paying out dividends, companies should use their profits to bolster their long-term viability.
They are more focused on paying down massive debt overhangs built up before the crisis than on assuming new debt and boosting aggregate demand.
When the bubbles burst, households understandably became fixated on balance-sheet repair – namely, paying down debt and rebuilding personal savings, rather than resuming excessive spending habits.
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.
The truth is that it is the United States that is not paying its fair share.
And 2% of assets under management is an annual fee that many sophisticated investors have been willing to pay private hedge funds – topped off with an extra fee of 20% of annual profits, which the Treasury is not paying.
With answers that are bound to please and upset people on both sides of the political divide, paying more attention to unbiased analysis of costs and benefits could be a way of finding the most sensible policies on which all of us can agree.
Nonetheless, the Warren-McCain bill is unlikely to be enacted soon, if only because President Barack Obama’s administration is preoccupied with keeping the government open and paying its bills, while bipartisan agreement on what day of the week it is, let alone on further financial reform, cannot be guaranteed.
And if they tried to export more than allowed without paying the fine, their surplus exports would be blocked.
To reconcile taxation with an overall economic strategy that seeks to maximize all citizens’ wellbeing, the tax system should adhere to three central principles: tax bad things (like pollution), rather than good things (like work); design taxes to cause the least possible distortion in the economy; and maintain a progressive rate structure, with richer individuals paying a larger share of their income.
With Louisiana’s ability to protect itself weakened and the center of disaster relief badly undermined, an inadequate government response and unnecessary destruction were almost inevitable – with the poor paying the price.
Paying for this educational reform would require higher tax rates.
Building more wind and solar generating capacity with subsidies means societies end up paying three times for power – once for the power, once for subsidies to inefficient renewables, and once more to subsidize our now-inefficient fossil fuels.
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