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George W. Bush’s proposals for a massive tax cut are risky – gambling on large future budget surpluses that might never appear, and gambling that a sharp tax cut won’t trigger a jump in interest rates.
A Gore Administration would have more continuity with present policies, but first-year Administrations always create uncertainties and anxieties, and many of Gore’s spending proposals will create uncertainties about future budget prospects.
Most proposals for managing e-waste fall into one of two major categories.
But it is misleading when officials tout simple, if not simplistic, policy proposals as the basis for hoping that we can avoid a long period of difficult economic adjustment.
Now the Commission and ECOFIN (the committee of euro area finance ministers) are reviewing the proposals, as well as others put forward by member states.
The European Commission’s recent proposals amount to a relaxation of its earlier hard-line stance, providing a catalogue of ways in which the fiscal rules can be made more flexible.
None of the proposals are mutually exclusive, but there are trade-offs.
In short, the Commission’s proposals and the follow-up suggestions put forward by some governments have forced open a Pandora’s Box.
At the company’s annual stockholder meeting last year, five proposals for how to begin addressing some of Facebook’s weaknesses were voted down.
That included proposals to publish a report on gender pay equity, and one on the public-policy issues associated with managing fake news and hate speech, including the impact on the democratic process, free speech, and a cohesive society.
And there were proposals to nominate an independent board chair and change the shareholder-voting structure to reduce Zuckerberg’s influence.
Rather, mainstream European parties have cautiously avoided proposals that could prove divisive.
G-20 finance ministers have already decided on a 2% target for annual growth through 2018, and are sifting through more than 900 proposals for structural reforms in order to achieve this.
Likewise, the European Union’s regulations for clinical trials require that research proposals include a discussion of ethical implications.
The “many recipes” thesis enriches neo-classical economics’ contribution to the development debate, and many of its policy proposals will find support from heterodox economists.
Caving in on judicial appointments, major public works projects, and proposals to “arm the people” is not a winning strategy.
Cabinet members have chafed at their proposals being subjected to lengthy review by White House committees, whose reports are often opaque.
The Business Case for Europe’s RefugeesLONDON – In the face of the largest influx of refugees into Europe in decades, the responses and policy proposals from the European Union and its member governments have varied enormously, and the debate has become deeply politicized.
But, by providing an honest, rigorous assessment of the major reform proposals, the Independent Banking Commission has performed an invaluable service, and deserves recognition for a job elegantly done.
President Barack Obama has offered numerous proposals to invest in the foundations of national competitiveness, but Congressional Republicans have rebuffed them, claiming that the US faces an impending fiscal crisis.
Block the Commission's Competition Policy NowLast December, the European Commission published a Green Paper that contains proposals to reform the EU's rules on mergers.
Reactions and comments on these proposals by interested parties are due in Brussels by March 31 st .
In the absence of strong criticism, the Commission will feel it legitimate to go ahead with a set of proposals that is deeply unsatisfactory.
The proposals also clarify Brussels' jurisdiction in relation to national competition authorities: mergers requiring a review by three or more national authorities will go automatically to Brussels.
Unfortunately, the recent agreement includes unrealistic proposals for fiscal adjustment.
He has suggested that “it might be good to raise income taxes on the poor so they had ‘skin in the game,’ and that proposals to repeal the carried-interest tax loophole – from which he personally benefits – were akin to the German invasion of Poland.”
These studies, along with public pressure, motivated Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to reach out to US President Ronald Reagan in 1986, resulting in some of the most comprehensive arms-control proposals in history.
The Prime Minister often speaks about pension reform, but has failed to offer any new proposals.
In a recent speech in Dresden, she proposed three concrete and action-oriented proposals to the North that would address its humanitarian problems, build infrastructure for the common welfare and prosperity of the two Koreas, and promote integration of the Korean people.
This is why recent proposals, such as the Franco-German Meseberg Declaration on eurozone reform, are based on a compromise: combining some degree of risk-sharing with measures to reduce risk and induce greater market discipline by, for example, restructuring debts.
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