It also provides social insurance by taxing the prosperous and redistributing benefits to the less fortunate.

In theory, taxing immobile assets is less distortionary, though taxes on structures obviously can discourage both maintenance and new construction.

Italy s Taxing Election

Taxing the Israeli Occupation

One proposal calls for taxing national and international financial transactions.

Raising funds by taxing negative externalities reduces distortions rather than creating them.

(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

This is a version of the fallacy that taxing companies ( capital ) spares ordinary people ( workers ).

Avoiding a massive withdrawal of foreign capital therefore implied taxing all deposits below the 100,000 ( 130,000) threshold.

A feed in tariff subsidizes the low carbon energy source rather than taxing the high carbon energy source.

The US and the UK don t want to weaken their competitive advantage by taxing banks while some other countries do not.

The country as a whole operated as a loose confederation that, like the European Union today, lacked taxing and other authority.

That means changing the way they produce and consume energy reducing subsidies, ensuring appropriate pricing, and adequately taxing environmentally damaging products.

Moreover, the current economic crisis has led to renewed talk about the need for the European Union to have taxing authority.

Rather than punitively taxing wealth, globalization strengthens the case for shifting to a flat tax on income (or better yet consumption) with a moderately high exemption.

The second change is carbon pricing, either by auctioning emissions allocations or by taxing carbon directly, at rates that start low and rise over the coming decades.

He argued that taxing short term movements of money in and out of different currencies would curb speculation and create some maneuvering room for domestic macroeconomic management.

One proposal calls for taxing national and international financial transactions. Others call for allocating Special Drawing Rights (SDR s) from the IMF, or for using the IMF s gold resources.

True, great thinkers like John Maynard Keynes and the late Nobel laureate James Tobin floated various ideas for taxing financial transactions as a way to reduce economic volatility.

For example, taxing individual rather than family income which in many economies imposes a higher marginal tax on the second earner in households would encourage women to seek employment.

But taxing basic foods and household items can have a disproportionate impact on lower income families, whose limited disposable incomes are already stretched thin, and thus can exacerbate existing inequalities.

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

Countries that now have solid financial regulatory systems in place are already effectively taxing their financial firms more than, say, the US and the UK, where financial regulation is more minimal.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Sami started hearing from Layla less and less.

But, to accomplish this transition, China s leaders must implement deep and comprehensive structural reforms that reverse a policy approach that continues to encourage investment and exports while explicitly and implicitly taxing consumption.

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

The formula of cutting, taxing, and investing is not a popular one in America s current political climate, and can be implemented only through the emergence of a broadly shared sense of sacrifice and purpose.

After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him he also perished and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.

There are Tunisians who want less rights, less freedom and less democracy to fight those who oppose freedom and democracy

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

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This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.

Currently in Haiti we are speaking less and less of security problems.

Multilateralism may have to be less comprehensive and less formal, at least initially.

Trial by jury, which was infrequent anyway, is being seen less and less.

Its youth are less conformist and more demanding, less passive and more pluralistic.

A eurozone government, by contrast, is always in a precarious situation it has only very long term assets (its taxing power) and shorter term liabilities, namely government debt, much of which has to be rolled over annually.

After all, taxing natural resources at high rates will not cause them to disappear, which means that countries whose major source of revenue is natural resources can use them to finance education, health care, development, and redistribution.

Gore s film would give the Europeans, always in danger of being marginalized at these meetings, the chance to boast about how they, unlike the Americans and Russians, are already doing their part by heavily taxing gas consumption.

Less noise, please.