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Some would disagree with this proposition, because they believe that the factors behind economic performance and dynamism are independent of distributional patterns.
This
proposition
has been tested several times in the US, where tax cuts were invariably followed by higher deficits.
Indeed, the greening of America is becoming a general
proposition.
By contrast, purchasing a third of a country’s entire debt stock, as required for a blocking position when all bondholders vote together, is an altogether more costly
proposition.
Some argue that ERM II membership should be viewed as a longer-term
proposition
- possibly lasting until 2010 - for the benefit of candidates themselves.
But this would surely change as its dynamic private sector, facing down the government’s protectionist instincts, lobbied for membership – a
proposition
that would become difficult to resist as the TAP’s influence spread.
In order to make the SDR the principal reserve asset via the allocation route, close to $3 trillion in SDRs would need to be created, an unrealistic
proposition.
President Barack Obama is right that the destruction of the Islamic State is a long-term
proposition.
Yet even China’s most favored beneficiaries remain dubious about its model and motives, largely because Chinese aid remains primarily a business
proposition.
Indeed, in this case, not talking amounts to having no strategy at all – a seriously risky
proposition.
Small member states do not like either proposition, because they would lose Commissioners and votes.
But transatlantic relations – no less than relations among the 25 members of the EU or the 26 members of NATO – cannot be an all-or-nothing proposition, lest they run the risk of becoming nothing.
This
proposition
has been disproved many times, and the economic advisers to those presidents have disavowed it.
That sounds like an attractive
proposition
– but someone must make the initial investment in exchange for a claim to the later savings.
After all, you don’t hear Canada’s foreign minister denying tension on his country’s American frontier, because the truth of that
proposition
is self-evident.
This is a tempting
proposition
for many ordinary citizens who find globalization complicated and bewildering.
But this
proposition
may be dangerously misleading.
Historically, the US has exercised enormous leadership in a world committed to the
proposition
that no state should dictate collective decisions.
That has been a highly controversial
proposition
in the West, where debates about education are highly politicized and often fall within familiar ideological boundaries.
That’s why Robert Kagan’s 2003 neo-conservative proposition, “Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus,” offered such a misleading guide.
Being offered financing from all directions may not be a bad
proposition
for impoverished developing countries in need of infrastructure.
On June 5, Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected, by 77% to 23%, the
proposition
that every citizen should be guaranteed an unconditional basic income (UBI).
This
proposition
almost beggars belief because it starkly contradicts China’s actions in failing to openly condemn North Korea for its sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan in March, or for the recent artillery attack on South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island.
Consider, for example, how many women confessed under torture that they were witches, or how the mere threat of torture induced Galileo Galilei to deny the
proposition
that the earth travels around the sun.
In Egypt, for example, President Mohamed Morsi’s government treated democracy as a winner-take-all
proposition
– and was ousted after little more than a year.
This is not a theoretical
proposition.
Right on cue, it is time for the famous Laffer hypothesis – the proposition, identified with the economist Arthur Laffer and “supply-side economics,” that reductions in tax rates are like magic beans: they so stimulate economic growth that total tax revenue (the tax rate times income) goes up rather than down.
Moreover, Red Bonds could be conveniently ring-fenced so that they do not destabilize the banking system, thereby ensuring that the no-bailout clause that applies to them becomes a credible
proposition.
China is betting on an old geopolitical
proposition.
Many grew from the simple
proposition
that ordinary people could overcome adversity in the marketplace by banding together to buy and sell goods at reasonable prices, and quickly realized the added benefits of sharing knowledge among members, promoting inclusion, and building social capital.
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