Sentences with phrase «big government policies»

Perhaps he misses when liberal and big government policies were moderate compared to what we have today.

«Donald Trump's economic program is desperately needed by the American economy, suffering from historically low growth because of the foolish big government policies of Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer,» Long said.

Not exact matches

The Trudeau government's 2017 federal budget talks a big game about innovation policy, but it misunderstands how firms actually implement change

If we came to learn that excessive household debt posed a bigger threat to economic growth than does a certain level of government debt, then policy makers would want to take that into account when setting interest rates.

Only now, thanks to changes in government policy among other factors, the cast of contending princelings is shifting, causing one big name VC to publicly bet on an less - often - mentioned possibility — Canada.

«Where we need innovation and where I think we are going to finally see social entrepreneurs spend more and more time is the public sector, because the big challenge that is facing every community on the planet is that government and public policy are not moving at the pace of technology or even meeting expectations of constituents,» says Blumenthal.

The biggest driver of economic growth next year will be from household consumption, which policy makers reckon will get a boost from the federal government's tax cuts and its decision to augment monthly child benefits.

«The only way to address these legitimate concerns is to reopen the deal itself and change those provisions that give foreign investors and big corporations such power to dictate government policy,» Barlow said.

«This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,» Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government's new policy in Edmonton on Sunday.

All of which, as Salon blogger Andrew Leonard points out, sounds like basic big - government, tax - and - spend Democratic policy.

Wide adoption of GMO seeds becomes a big commercial win for ChemChina and a policy win for the government.

He has also accused the Tokyo government of using monetary policy to devalue its currency and has also lumped Japan with China and Mexico as big contributors to the U.S. trade deficit.

At the root of bankism is government policy that denotes banks are too big too fail and shouldn't be allowed to collapse.

Those policies were praised by government officials as proof positive that a four - way competition among the big carriers had been the right decision.

It's conceivable that by sending the Obamacare markets into a quasi-death spiral, the policy will significantly drive up the costs to the federal government through bigger subsidies — which is, funnily enough, a good thing for conservatives as far as the Byrd Rule is concerned.

«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

Beyond the stock market, government policy may have the biggest effect on top incomes.

As of Monday, there has been no official comments on the latest move to target miners, who has enjoyed big support from government policies, categorizing employees in the sector as high - tech workers.

The sustained economic downturn is a result of the job killing NDP government policies (i.e. 50 % increase of minimum wage; carbon tax — the biggest hidden tax in Alberta history; and out of control spending and borrowing).

U.S. government policy has a big impact on the sector, and the current administration makes a good upside case, in our view.

There is a big difference between government having people in it and policies affected by beliefs (religious or otherwise) but that is a far cry from a theocracy or an establishment of one religion over another which is what the Founders were leery of.

The other two branches of government have no business in the issue; they need to be concerned with the bigger picture; foreign policies and matters, national economy, and disagreements between states on matters that affect national politics.

Over the past generation «supply side economics» has become an epithet used to cast scorn and derision upon any policy that doesn't look to Big Government as a driver of economic growth.

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

«Obviously it is a policy issue for governments to think about, but as a person who would be part of an organisation that would have to make that decision, I think it's too big a decision for a regulator to make.»

And the proposals for such «pro-family «government policies as bigger children «s allowances, family tax credits and employer - provided day care, while obviously helpful, do n`t reach the heart of the problem.

Hence a raft of government policies that have the biggest impact on those women have been left unaddressed.

Empowering local people to help out in their communities is one of the flagship policies of the coalition government's «Big Society».

His comment comes at a time members of the biggest opposition party have been chiding the Mahama government for doing little to develop the country, claiming that, policies of the government have negatively impacted on Ghanaians.

And the longer the government carries on with these failing policies, the bigger the challenge will be for the next Labour government.

Of course, the big policy / political fight this week has been the budget / debt ceiling / government shutdown madness, including today's vote in the House to cut SNAP (food stamp) funding and Obamacare implementation.

The Bush presidency saw the conservative coalition and the Republican Party becoming increasingly restless — about federal expansion and big - government, about anti-libertarian policies and sentiments and about the Iraq war and the aggressive style of the Bush administration.

In the US, it means support for completely opposite «tax - and - spend» «big government» policies (combined with social issues views based on secularism and sexual expressionism).

The coalition government's two flagship policy edifices are localism and the big society.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

You could almost call this a mini-TTIP deal, similar to the US - EU trade deal that lets big business steer government policy to their advantage, mostly behind closed doors.

He claimed that his priorities were defending civil liberties; devolving the running of public services to parents, pupils and patients; and protecting the environment, [56] and that he wanted to forge a «liberal alternative to the discredited policies of big government».

Although the Government was «beginning» to understand the priority behind environmental policies, he said, the Green Investment Bank, however, was «not big enough, or soon enough», and it was essential that Treasury got «behind... and turbocharged» the Green Deal.

«A government elected on a promise to scale back the database state should be an opponent of this type of policy, not its biggest cheerleader.»

He has produced studies on the National Health Service, crime, big government projects, the dynamic effects of tax cuts, Gordon Brown's economic record, hate education in Palestine and environmental policy.

The list includes 23 big - bucks donors who got appointed to municipal boards and committees, eight developers who benefited from government actions or policy changes, six political allies put on the city payroll and five business owners who scored lucrative contracts.

His staunch support for the coalition's welfare reforms, which the rebellious Lords continued to systematically take apart this week in two big defeats for the government, underlined the fact that much of the coalition's policy book is straight out of the Tory party manifesto.

The leader of the biggest opposition party also made a firm commitment to introduce a regime that will implement a policy for the election of District Chief Executives (DCEs) explaining that: «The time has come to bring accountability to local government through competitive politics.

But the script accuses Higgins of being «so detached from reality that while families in New York are forced to pay more than $ 3.70 a gallon, Higgins has been in Washington supporting big - government policies that lead to higher gas prices and restrain the production of American - made energy.»

«This government's policies so far have been all about keeping the Cabinet's friends in big business happy and unfortunately, it is costing our NHS and British families an absolute fortune.

«Instinctively, any hon. member would want the house to play as big a role as possible and to have greater opportunity to hold the government to account, as well as ultimately to say through a vote whether it approves of a policy statement,» he said.

«The sentiment of the Big Society is to be encouraged and, certainly, the government have put decentralisation at the heart of domestic policy agenda.

The decisive shift in federal climate policy will have little impact on businesses: Shareholders and large state governments have already pushed big business to act on the issue.

All of which leaves a nagging concern that a Corbyn government would primarily view local government as a platform to deliver its big national policy priorities.