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The US should tell Germany – in the same no-nonsense terms that Germany used with Greece – that it cannot defer to the US for its security while undermining Western unity to protect its taxpayers from possible intra-eurozone liabilities.
No country’s taxpayers have wanted to feel that they are paying for others’ excesses: the single currency did not impose shared responsibility.
California’s government collects about one-half of its income-tax revenue from the top 1% of the state’s taxpayers.
Yet if Greece is to be saved from bankruptcy, it will have only foreign taxpayers' money to thank for it.
And it will be nearly impossible to convince European taxpayers and governments to provide further billions of euros without verifiable guarantees and the necessary reforms.
It is time for US leaders to place the well-being of the high-tech wealth machine – which cost US taxpayers tens of billions of dollars to build – above the illusory notion that the only route to safety is unfettered access to the world’s digital traffic.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s understandable desire to discipline the spendthrifts entails sawing away at the last remaining branch on which Germany’s bankers and taxpayers are perched.
Of course, such a move would carry considerable political costs in Germany, where many taxpayers recoil at the notion of assuming the debts of the fiscally profligate southern countries, without considering how much Germany would benefit from a stable and dynamic monetary union.
Rather than using taxpayers’ money to fuel climate change, these governments should be pricing carbon out of the market through taxation (an imperative that is especially relevant for Africa, which will pay the highest price for potential climate catastrophes, despite having contributed very little to the problem).
In other words, Europe’s central-banking system, composed of the ECB and national central banks, is saving itself, and Cypriot savers and European taxpayers are footing the bill.
Commercial banks must be liable for the risks that they take, and the use of taxpayers’ money in winding down banks must be categorically ruled out.
The United States has always been an important partner for our countries, but the path to solving our problems is not through handouts from American taxpayers.
When the good times ended, taxpayers and governments were prepared to rescue them and to ensure that they continued to receive their extraordinary bonuses.
At the session, I asked Caplin about his effort, starting with his co-authored 1997 book Housing Partnerships, which proposed allowing homebuyers to buy only a fraction of a house, thereby reducing their risk exposure without putting taxpayers at risk.
Because supervisors’ decisions affect individuals’ property rights – and their actions or omissions can put taxpayers on the hook to bail out banks – governments, parliaments, and the courts are bound to hold the watchdogs on a tight leash.
The alternative is either a sovereign-debt crisis, followed by a destructive spike in borrowing costs, or a growing burden for subsequent generations of taxpayers.
Both were privately owned but had an implicit government guarantee from taxpayers, a classic case of moral hazard.
These five pillars involve drastic choices, but they will probably require less money from Europe’s taxpayers, not more.
And, because the IMF is virtually always paid back, restructuring avoids putting domestic taxpayers on the hook for a creditor bailout.
Furthermore, NATO enlargement might allegedly be resented by a certain large Euro-Asian state and would cost taxpayers money.
My role was to find a way to sustain high-quality pensions that could set a high standard of fairness and adequacy, but that could also remain affordable to taxpayers – who, after all, pay the lion’s share of the costs of public-service pensions.
Second, they expose taxpayers to the risk that salaries will rise more quickly than expected, which would increase pension cost.
And these caps would have an automatic stabilizer built into their design to ensure that future costs to taxpayers are more effectively controlled.
The US must use oil revenues to lift the burden of financing regime change in Iraq from American taxpayers.
This enormous subsidy to American taxpayers is, in many ways, the world’s largest foreign aid program.
Neither the Cypriot government nor European taxpayers will put any additional funds into these banks.
This realization – that the European taxpayer does not have to save every troubled bank – might have a very beneficial effect, because Germany’s resistance to a banking union is motivated by the fear that German taxpayers would be forced to underwrite indirectly the losses of banks in the distressed countries of the eurozone periphery.
In the eurozone’s “core” countries, they purport to protect taxpayers from relentless demands for debtor-country relief.
After all, the emergence of global megabanks was not a market outcome; these banks are government-sponsored and subsidized enterprises, propped up by taxpayers.
The banks and other financial players have every incentive to load up on risk as we head into the cycle; they get the upside (Wall Street compensation this year is set to break records again) and the downside goes to taxpayers.
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