Privileges
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Most economists favor finding ways to broaden the tax base – for example, by eliminating special deductions and
privileges
– in order to keep marginal tax rates low.
The army’s temptation to limit change reflects the conservative profile of its hierarchy, the extraordinary
privileges
it enjoys, and the economic interests with which it has been tied.
Preserving hereditary
privileges
invariably means that rules and governmental processes get bent, if not made wholly subservient to dynastic concerns.
Generally the causes are these: unpaid wages and pensions; sudden and massive job terminations; and management corruption held responsible for the bankruptcy of industrial enterprises--where discharged workers were secure, enjoying
privileges
and benefits, since the 1950s.
Diffusion occurs as old powers and
privileges
corrode; concentration occurs as the power and reach of those who control new capabilities expands.
Just this past June, for example, France went through a 1968-style month of strikes and street protests only to implement minor pension reforms: the elimination of a few special
privileges
enjoyed by public sector employees.
While intrigues and coups are possible, Musharraf's survival is likely because he will not threaten the enormous powers and
privileges
of the institution he heads and which is the only one that can seriously threaten him--Pakistan's military.
Being the most powerful nation gives America privileges, but it also imposes obligations.
At the same time, business owners seek illicit relationships with local officials to gain protection,
privileges
(such as contracts), loans, a blind eye to safety standards, and regulatory exemptions – activities that generate financial risks and undermine competition by raising entry barriers for more efficient enterprises.
With far too many channels competing 24/7 for the same sets of eyeballs and target rating points (TRPs), television news has long since abandoned any pretense of providing a public service, and instead blatantly
privileges
sensation over substance.
Wooing China’s PrincelingsCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China’s “princelings” – the offspring of senior Chinese officials who benefit from lavish
privileges
in education, employment, and business – are coming under scrutiny as never before.
When the king of France created the Sorbonne in the thirteenth century, it was granted special privileges, one of which was maintaining order by itself; the police were not allowed to enter the university’s grounds.
Many have joined the Party and become government officials, and a large percentage enjoy various professional and financial
privileges.
But, as Habsburg history shows, such arrangements create entrenched
privileges
among the “haves” and grudges among the “have-nots.”
Likewise, politicians are reluctant to adopt deregulation that eliminates state-sponsored special
privileges.
Yet the fact is that Trump’s trade agenda is driven by a narrow mercantilism that
privileges
the interests of US corporations over other stakeholders.
Part of the problem may be that Trump has come out on both sides of most major debates, championing a brand of politics that
privileges
intensity over consistency.
Such people are more likely to seek to strengthen their
privileges
than promote pluralism and the rule of law.
Each group is focused on determining its particular
privileges
while preserving the territorial integrity and national unity of a country growing increasingly fractious and fragile.
The use of online social networks, for example, has grown faster than in any other country in Europe, and has helped create some semblance of a public sphere, with the Russian blogosphere often a venue for angry public expression about social injustice, undeserved privileges, lawlessness, and police impunity.
They know they will enjoy labor and human-rights protections, with abuses prosecuted under the law, but no additional
privileges.
Denying migrants the
privileges
associated with living in their host country may seem to contradict traditional European liberal and egalitarian values.
Such a “foreign worker rights charter” would protect immigrants’ rights, while restricting their social
privileges.
But there was an immediate problem: the existing tax system had reached its limits, and no more revenue could be raised without ending time-honored
privileges
and immunities.
In a fairer world, these vulnerable citizens would be entitled to claw back the salaries, official privileges, and bonuses that the four parties to blame enjoyed for too long.
This can be achieved by eliminating
privileges
for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), such as subsidized capital and monopolies, and by allowing the private sector more freedom.
Addressing these fundamental causes of social discontent and unsustainable economic performance requires not advice and pleas to the ruling elites, but a change in China’s political reality that compels those who benefit from the status quo to surrender their
privileges
for the good of the country.
This, its detractors warn,
privileges
Wall Street in the operation of the Federal Reserve System.
Under a regime of universal individual rights, it becomes difficult to grant trade unions the legal status and
privileges
of a collectivity distinct from and superior to its members.
In fact, under the treaty, India forfeited all of the extraterritorial rights and
privileges
in Tibet that it had inherited from imperial Britain.
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