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But recent research shows that they can also play a useful role in raising government revenue at little cost in terms of economic growth.
But in Europe there is another option for raising revenues: the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (ETS).
In terms of the effect on GDP and jobs, the cost of increasing revenue from this source would be as much as one-third less than that of raising the same amount via income taxes or VAT.
And, by raising the cost of extracting fossil fuels, it would contribute to the eventual phase-out of a sector that has no place in a climate-safe world.
Contrary to the implications of the Meltzer-Richard framework, ordinary American voters do not seem to be very interested in raising top marginal tax rates or in greater social transfers.
Japan’s governments have been fragile and short-lived for close to a decade, and the current debate over raising the value-added tax could cause another change of administration.
But recent base-building activity by India near its border with Pakistan has been raising red flags in Islamabad.
A few weeks ago, a previously unknown organization called “The Martyr’s Brigade” claimed credit for attacks on Delta pipelines, raising concerns among multinationals that mercenary resistance in the region is becoming ideological.
Rising dependence on energy imports has already been used to rationalize an increased emphasis on maritime power, raising new concerns about sea-lane safety and vulnerability to supply disruptions.
Without inflows of Chinese capital, the US Treasury would face higher interest rates, raising the cost of financing government debt and the cost of homeowners’ mortgages.
The worst inter-communal fighting took place in the plains to the east of the Alawites’ mountain strongholds, raising the suspicion that Alawites were preparing for a retreat to their native region in the event of the regime’s collapse and were trying to expand the area under their control.
This will include ending the war in Iraq, raising taxes on the rich, and also gradually phasing in new consumption taxes.
True, there are times when particular countries’ currencies can be judged to be undervalued or overvalued, and there are times when their trading partners have a legitimate interest in raising the issue.
Most Roman Catholics participate in this mistreatment, a few by raising chickens, ducks, and turkeys in ways that maximize profit by reducing animal welfare, and the majority by buying the products of factory farms.
That includes raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000 a year, and using the money to extend health insurance to the tens of millions of Americans who – uniquely for an industrialized nation – do not have it.
Last year, he pledged to double US foreign aid by 2012, raising it to $50 billion a year.
That may sound like hyperbole, but raising the temperature and reducing the rainfall of a predominantly agricultural nation can be as devastating to its people as dropping bombs on it.
The new rules-of-origin (ROO) benchmark requiring that 75% of an imported vehicle be produced in North America (up from 62.5% under NAFTA) is likely to reduce employment by raising the costs of production.
The third component, or “arrow,” of Abenomics – structural reforms – aims to restore growth by raising productivity.
Nowadays, many start-up companies – particularly Internet start-ups – are raising serious amounts of capital for their stones alone.
In Europe, meanwhile, many of our problems are exemplified by what is happening in France, where President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attempt to recognize demographic and fiscal reality by raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 provoked a wave of strikes and stormy protests from workers and students.
Raising taxes on the beneficiaries of publicly funded research would be a challenge, given that the link between an original breakthrough and the wealth it created might be hard to quantify.
Raising such questions when nanotechnology is still in its infancy may result in better, safer products and less long-term liability for industry.
After committing to a 17% reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 – and despite his declaration that he would not tolerate inaction in this area – he simply stopped raising the issue after the Republicans’ sweeping victory in the November 2010 mid-term elections.
In addition, such insulation discourages the raising of additional capital, inducing executives to run banks with a capital level that provides an inadequate cushion for bondholders and depositors.
But it is increasingly clear that ultra-easy monetary policy is impeding the necessary process of deleveraging, threatening the “independence” of central banks, raising asset prices (especially for bonds) to unsustainable levels, and encouraging governments to resist making needed policy changes.
The call for “outright monetary financing” involves raising government deficits still further and financing them through a permanent increase in base money issued by central banks.
Sharply raising the government’s already outsized profile in the economy will upset this delicate balance leading to slower growth in the future.
And if that narrative fuels a populist victory in March, reform of the banking sector will again be postponed, raising the eventual cost still further.
The key to recovery, then, is to tax the rich, increase transfers, and restore worker incomes by enhancing union bargaining power and raising minimum wages.
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