Sentences with phrase «do as entitlement»

What could governments do as entitlement (welfare) payments rise more rapidly than taxes?

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Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to bid up stock and bond prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.
Do you really expect them to take up something as important as entitlement reform?
Kenney faces another potential liability — that, as unpopular as the Notley NDP is, voters also don't want a swift return to the arrogance and entitlement of the old Alberta Tory regime.
Rather than begrudging the ambition of the Sons of Entitlement, then, might I engage them with respect and love, as Jesus did, while working to refocus their ambition on the cross?
It includes, as all good journals do, an article by ME — on the connection between individualism and our entitlement crisis.
People who think homosexuals should not have special legal entitlements as a minority group, parents who do not want their eight - year - olds instructed in the use of condoms, those who insist that abortion is very bad for unborn children and their mothers — bigots one and all.
The Republicans lost in 2012 with Ryan as their vice presidential candidate, but the GOP's boldness in taking on a major entitlement does not seem to have been a major factor.
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, supported by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, manages these water holdings under the same rules and pays the associated fees and charges as other entitlement holders do with respect to their holdings.
«They're treating their annual leave which is an entitlement as a privilege which is ridiculous, they've cut manning levels back so much on shift that we've got supervisors doing production work.»
As true as that is I don't think you can overstate the effect the media have had in creating the «aaa» types and inducing this mind set of «entitlement» of which you speaAs true as that is I don't think you can overstate the effect the media have had in creating the «aaa» types and inducing this mind set of «entitlement» of which you speaas that is I don't think you can overstate the effect the media have had in creating the «aaa» types and inducing this mind set of «entitlement» of which you speak.
As they said in their presentation, their aim is «a great dad for all» and they'll do all they can to help make it happen - whether that's campaigning for equality of paternity entitlement or educating and supporting dads on a day - to - day basis.
If we want both mothers and fathers to have the option of flourishing as employees and parents then we must make sure that proposals to extend fathers» entitlement to parental leave and flexible working come into force, and that the costs of childcare do not continue to be borne disproportionately by mothers.
«I don't see this as an entitlement,» he said.
But I don't think it's helpful to ignore facts such as Congress» lack of interest in fully funding the school meals program or the pushback from newspaper readers angry over entitlement programs or the no - shows when it comes time for parents to meet and create an agenda.
The writer of this rant rails against practicers of AP as parents as those who don't allow their children to play sports for fear that they might get hurt and ones who raise their children with a sense of entitlement and no work ethic.
No doubt many of you in the audience who work do have access to paid leave, but certainly the lower socio - economic groups never will as long as access to such an entitlement is decided on by the employer rather than mandated by the government.
This intriguing revelation by the ICC didn't come as a surprise to some of us who have been following this case since 2010 and have always been of the view that the Supreme Court of Ghana erred in linking Mr.Woyome's claims for works done for the state in 2005 to a waterville contract in 2006 on which basis it asked Mr.Woyome to refund all his entitlement paid him.
The projected increase to # 6,999 in the value of the basic state pension does not include any additional entitlements such as SERPS and the second state pension, which already average more than # 1,000 a year.
A set of legal entitlements such as Britain has become has no more reality than the Empire did in the 60s when buffers were still to be found lamenting it.
Power is an inheritance to them and an entitlement and as long as they retain their safe seats they still get shadow cabinet jobs and dosh to do absolutely nothing other than wait for more morally driven activists to sell ideas that do not exist on doorsteps.
During my three years as County Executive, we have beefed up our efforts to detect both applicants and recipients who don't actually qualify for this entitlement.
In both cases, we offered four options: keeping the benefit as it is, withdrawing it from higher - rate taxpayers, raising the entitlement age to 70, and doing both.
«The Good Egg» draws a link between the viability of the egg before conception and the intrinsic value of the embryo: «If, as some ethicists argue, nascent life must be protected, how do we assess the degree of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent of the time?»
If, as some ethicists argue, nascent life must be protected, how do we assess the degree of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent of the time?
Brooks did say that «my priorities would be to protect basic research in the sciences as much as possible, even to the extent of cutting entitlements, in order to generate enough funding for basic research.»
Recent documentaries such as Kirby Dick's incendiary The Hunting Ground and countless ESPN «Outside the Lines» features have done a tremendous job of peeling back the carnivorous layers of abuse and entitlement that seem to pervade college campuses.
There is broad public support for more government spending on childcare as long as that spending does not result in another unfunded entitlement that worsens the deficit
As we reported in the July 18 WEAC Legislative Update, referendum restrictions included in the Senate GOP plan would exclude from «shared cost» any amount levied by a district in a prior year for either operating or debt service costs that were authorized by a referendum if doing so would not increase the district's equalization aid entitlement.
The bill does cut funding to entitlements, such as the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Plus, as rules constantly change, it's worth doing an annual check - up to see if your entitlement's altered.
Paternity Pay is paid by an employer for two weeks, usually to the child's father, once the child has been born and has the same «qualifying rules» as Maternity Pay although you don't get the same initial six - week entitlement.
Pay is the same as Maternity Pay although you don't get the same initial six - week entitlement, but eligibility rules are different.
Government entitlement programs make things «wierd» if you really believe we are at 800 % debt / GDP with entitlements as many do on wall street.
Casuals get a higher hourly rate because they don't get some of the entitlements that full - time or part - time employees get (such as sick leave and annual leave).
While I'm not nearly as cynical as Branford, I do believe that a growing sense of entitlement is a real trend in modern society and I definitely don't think games are immune to it.
My sense of entitlement as someone who creates original work certainly played into this sentiment, but as the saying goes «I didn't speak up when they came for the appropriationists...»
Congratulations on raising a daughter that will enter the world — as it were — without the bad attitude or the feeling of entitlement so many others do.
In any case, as I said before I don't claim entitlement to post here, and I didn't lose any sleep over the deletion.
We don't see planting a billion trees, for example, as having been an entitlement.
While a rising elasticity contradicts the standard economic model in which price - sensitivities don't change much over time, Point # 5 provides a reasonable explanation: gasoline prices (and energy prices in general) had fluctuated so wildly for decades, and a sense of entitlement to cheap gasoline had become so ingrained in American society, that it took a long time for households and businesses to internalize the rise in pump prices — to regard it as real.
For example, if you're a contractor who needs help completing a job, you can assign tasks and entitlements to a subcontractor, as long as the original contract doesn't forbid the assignment of these rights and duties.
While the chambers judge found that Holm's notice entitlement was limited to s. 2 (2) above, the requirement that the notice period be «in accordance with the provincial legislation» did not set the statutory minimum notice period as a ceiling.
At the same time, Rose says there is plenty that we don't know, such as whether or not it is safer for employers to use fewer words in a termination clause and avoid all - inclusive language, and whether, for public policy reasons, future court decisions will put an onus on employers to make clear to employees the differences between ESA entitlements and the common law before they sign ESA - only contracts.
Although the three additional provisions were likely added only to increase clarity and confirm the parties» intention as stated in s. 2 (2), the Court concluded that most of these provisions would have been redundant if the employer's interpretation of s. 2 (2) was accepted, thereby lending further support to the Court's conclusion that s. 2 (2) did not clearly limit Holm's entitlement.
However, as the court noted, Ms Turley as appellant «[did] not fall within the definition of a family member and so has no entitlement to succeed to Mr Doyle's tenancy».
As an Ontario court recently ruled, while employees have no legal entitlement to continued employment, they do retain some basic rights.
If a claim does not settle and is submitted to an Administrative Law Judge to decide an injured worker's entitlement to benefits, the Judge can only award weekly benefits as set forth above.
Imperial Cancer Research Fund v Ove Arup [2009] All ER (D) 282 (Jun); FG Hawkes v Beli Shipping [2009] All ER (D) 207 (Jul); and Sodastream v Coates [2009] All ER (D) 22 (Aug): while CPR 7.6 (2) does not impose a threshold set of conditions, nonetheless those requirements will always be relevant to the exercise of discretion on such an application, but the fact that the conditions are not satisfied is not necessarily determinative of the outcome of a CPR 7.6 (2) application; whether the claim has become statute barred since the date on which the claim form was issued is a matter of considerable importance, since a time extension would disturb the entitlement of the potential defendant to be free of the possibility of any claim; whether the claimant was reliant on further information which had not yet been forthcoming so as to determine whether or not a viable claim existed, is a relevant consideration.
I don't know where the parameters of free speech should be, I just know that we need to recognize that vital though it is, other values (equality, in particular, as well as people's entitlement not to be lied about and maligned with impunity) are also.
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