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Enhancing the earned-income tax credit is a live option today, and Obama proposed in his January 2016 State of the Union address expanding wage insurance, which currently helps workers who lose their jobs because of trade but could be extended to those who lose their jobs due to technological change.
Proposed social security and tax reforms, presented to Congress at the end of April, seem to be creating additional tension.
Policies that do not abide by some variant of this utilitarian principle (as proposed by, say, John Rawls or Amartya Sen) are bound to be inefficient or unfair.
All the while, Russian trade missionaries whisper that the government is dragging its feet on a proposed free trade zone between Bulgaria and Russia, something requested by the previous socialist government of Bulgaria but only now offered by an opportunistic Russia.
This opposition is not coming only from politicians who are calculating that opposition to whatever is proposed may yield electoral benefits; indeed, it does not even reflect any coherent right-wing or indeed left-wing political position.
The prolonged period of renegotiation now proposed by Cameron implies high costs for both sides.
The EITC was originally based on the negative income tax proposed by Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman.
Helping low-income families is clearly not high on Trump’s agenda, given that around 60% of the budget cuts he has proposed hit programs that help low- and middle-income families.
Ron Wyden, the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, calls the proposed Republican tax cuts “a middle-class con job.”
That is exactly what the Hungarian government did when it recently proposed an “Internet tax” of 50 euro cents ($0.62) per gigabyte.
Hungary’s proposed tax was absurd – akin to assessing fees on reading books or charging people to have conversations with friends.
In Hungary, the proposed tax would have been particularly onerous, because it would raise the cost of mobile data by 5-15% and have an even bigger impact on fixed broadband subscriptions.
A cap of €2.30 per person, hastily proposed after the initial public outcry, and before the proposal was withdrawn, would have done little to ease that burden on low-income Internet users, while drastically reducing the program’s overall revenue.
As the protesters in Budapest pointed out, the proposed tax is wrong for Hungary.
Hungary’s proposed tax was especially pernicious, owing to its poor design.
Indeed, the overall non-discriminatory tax regime has been an important boon to ICT adoption, and the EU’s commissioner for the digital agenda spoke out strongly against Hungary’s proposed tax, calling it “a particularly bad idea.”
Some even proposed taking rescued asylum seekers directly to other European ports.
The proposed trade deal with the European Union (the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP) would boost US exports to the EU by $300 billion annually, adding $125 billion to America’s annual GDP.
A draft of proposed changes submitted to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi assigns three key tasks to the Self-Defense Forces (SDF): effective response to new threats, participation in international peacekeeping activities, and defense against invasion.
By contrast, the proposed restrictions on the visa-waiver program include “safeguard clauses” that would temporarily suspend access to Europe’s Schengen area, most likely for those from Balkan countries.
Eventually, even the almighty American consumer will be shaken and realize that he is poorer today than three years ago and that he better start putting money away for his retirement, especially given Bush's proposed risky experiments with the social security system.
Obama has proposed a new budget for NASA that directs it to focus on longer-term goals, and adds another $6 billion over the next five years (at a time when almost every other agency faces budget cuts).
US President Barack Obama has proposed to expand the TAA program.
In an important recent speech, Tarullo called for a cap on the size of America’s largest banks, to limit their non-deposit liabilities as a percentage of GDP – an entirely sensible approach, and one that fits with legislation that has been proposed by two congressmen, Senator Sherrod Brown and Representative Brad Miller.
Those who oppose their proposed reforms are most likely insiders – people who have received payments from big banks over the past year or two.
Greek Cypriots were worried, for instance, about the tax bill for the last proposed settlement; an agreement by the EU and other international players to subsidize the plan would cut the potential cost without affecting the Turkish community at all.
So far, the only US presidential candidate who has recognized the need for such a future-oriented approach is former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who has proposed modernizing reforms of Social Security and Medicare that avoid imposing high costs on middle-income Americans and a heavier debt burden on future generations.
Packaging existing loan portfolios and offloading them to non-bank investors, as many have proposed, should be encouraged.
The second test, more subjective and tricky to apply – and therefore not decisive in itself – is whether the primary purpose of any proposed military action is to halt or avert the threat to civilians.
The fourth criterion concerns proportional means: are the scale, duration, and intensity of the proposed military action the minimum necessary to meet the threat in question?
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