Sentences with phrase «economic arguments do»

We'll now be told that economic arguments don't win political campaigns anymore and that Brexit is more about identity than it is about finances.

But one close Cameron ally frets: «The economic argument doesn't seem to ring with as much clarity as the immigration one.»

Not exact matches

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

I don't even want to get into the economic argument as to whether an increase in the minimum wage results in someone's loss of employment.

Mr. Navarro's writings don't offer economic arguments for exempting Canada from those measures.

But we argue that the underlying social purpose of such Jubilees — to keep debt within the reasonable ability to be paid without social and economic polarisation — could be recreated via alternative mechanisms, and we discuss the politico - economic arguments for, and against, doing so.

Don't fall for the argument that Americans must get out and spend to spur economic growth.

With these high stakes in mind, Burnham did not engage in wonkish policy analysis to show how high taxes and regulation constrain economic growth, a mode of argument now predominant among conservatives.

Conservatives have won the economic arguments, he says, and on the cultural front they have done a fine job of showing how the decline of the traditional, two - parent family is linked to a host of social ills.

Land owners in Scotland often receive their economic rent in the form of asset appreciation rather than cash, but this does not lessen the force of Smith's and Ricardo's argument.

The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?

Admittedly Alex Salmond does intersperse his economic arguments with appeals to democratic principle.

This bill did not form part of the coalition agreement, it was not in any party's manifesto, and there is no credible economic argument to justify it.

I have tried to study the economic argument behind it... I do not support such arguments, which are obscure at best and have not been shown to work in real terms.

Unfortunately they have failed because the electorate simply does not believe Clegg; they think he can not be trusted because he changed his mind on economic strategy prior to the general election yet continued making arguments which ran counter to this change.

The figures do little to settle the argument over the government's economic agenda.

It might not go down very well, but not all benefits are universal — I think Labour needs to bite the bullet and do what makes economic sense to most people rather than stick to vague arguments that «if the rich don't get it, they won't want it given to the poor»

A new report says publicly financed sports arenas don't provide an economic benefit to communities, a conclusion that would blunt an argument commonly used to justify construction of new stadiums at taxpayer expense.

This argument has to be met head - on; the idea of a regulatory race to the bottom does not square with political and economic reality.

When it got to the turn of the Council of Elders, the regional chair spoke, Hon Hackman spoke, I spoke and I spoke on the economy, but you don't talk about the economy by starting with the resource location;... I started by talking about how poorly this economy has been managed that we have gone from GHS9.4 bn debt to GHS110bn debt at the time, and how growth, without oil, was 1.9 bn and had dwindled to about 4 % etc.,... And I said something which I've said in this room: that Ghana is not poor and that the resource base of this country is found in five regions and I mentioned the regions specifically because I was making a strong economic argument.

Clegg said he did not blame Cameron for the loss of the Brexit vote, but said the campaign was «very bloodless and allowed a more emotionally impactful argument in favour of dollops of money for the NHS, and economic utopia, the traffic would flow, the sun would shine, it allowed the other side to make these ludicrous claims... in a relatively unchallenged way».

Pan: Per capita, they are still obviously way behind the United States and other industrial nations and there is this argument that the United States and the West, you know, they went through their industrial revolutions and we need to go through ours, but still that ignores the argument that the others, the lessons learnt, you know, China should be able to take a different path and there is a budding environmental movement right now in China, trying to put pressure on the government to do something about this, but again, you know, these officials are addicted to economic growth.

We'll reduce it 40 percent by 2020, by 2020 everything we make we'll use 40 percent less energy per dollar or per yuan of value, okay; which is good, I mean, there's no argument to be made against them doing it, but their own economic projections indicate that their economy is going to grow so quickly that they'll be producing more CO2 instead of less at the end of that period.

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Balancing economic arguments with ecological considerations does not have to be a mutually exclusive choice.

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist - profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist — profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

Just sayin», as the argument is that both Amazon and Hachette are pushing their preferred narrative for their own economic benefit, I don't think anyone in this conversation is taking a position where they end up worse off in their own estimation, myself included.)

Merely because a life insurance company has an economic interest in not selling insurance to someone who might harm the insured, does not mean that the insurable interest argument relies on the self - interest of the insurer.

We know about an investing strategy that beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of Buy - and - Hold.

I don't reject the belief that increased CO2 levels result in global warming, only that the long - term environmental arguments are weaker than the short - term economic ones.

I obviously did not come up with this argument all on my own, but found my inspiration in an article at Encyclopedia of the Earth, http://www.eoearth.org, a while ago that discusses entropy and its ramifications for Economics and in particular, indefinite economic growth.

But on the other hand, we here have to balance that fact against a compelling development argument: agriculture of high - margin organic produce is a potential economic boon for many people in developing countries — which also can diversify their economies and to do so in a (locally) green way.

Making the arguments based on very long periods, like the Stern Review did for its economic comparisons, is actually an admission that we can not justify our views, but try to mislead the audience to believe that we can.

In doing so, the best he can offer from moral philosophy is a reduction of complicated scientific, political, and economic arguments to facile comparisons of «business as usual» to «standing around, watching a child drown».

I can make the case in the broad argument that you don't get cheap energy from cheap fossil economic policies as something that always mathematically is true, so no Political decision giving special favor to fossil can be justified (see above).

Common to these arguments is that they have successfully framed the climate change debate so that opponents and proponents of climate policies debate facts about costs, scientific uncertainty, or economic harms to nations that act while other large emitters don't act rather the moral problems with these arguments.

Those making economic arguments based upon short - term narrow self - interest will not be forced to admit that those causing climate change have duties, responsibilities, and obligations to others who can do little to reduce climate change's threat but who are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest consequences.

It's easy to find a number of success stories on the power of political decisions as the industry has opposed using economic arguments also changes that have been easy to make (like some required changes for cars) or that did indeed allow for rapid technology development as reduction of sulfur emissions or replacement of ozone damaging chemicals by safer ones.

The other argument is that, even if humans do in the decades to come rise to the challenge, it could be too late: by then greenhouse gas concentrations could have reached a level in the atmosphere that would in the long run condemn the world to sea level rises of several metres, and a succession of economic and humanitarian disasters.

Since then, even among those with an axe to grind, the smarter types (like Ron Bailey and earlier Bjorn Lomborg) have abandoned denialism in favour of economic arguments for doing nothing.

The CJEU rightfully notes that this argument did not so much pertain to the question whether state resources were present in the current case, but if such access conferred a selective economic advantage.

Refusing accreditation to the school, the decision states, «does not, in fact, preclude TWU from opening a law school,» despite TWU's argument that it would not open the school without accreditation from LSUC, and «while... there is a degree of interference with religious beliefs, should that result occur... the motivating force not to open the law school appears to be more economic than it is religious.

My argument is that the Bar is not offering students value for money from the vocational year, but if it did, the socio - economic diversity of the profession would improve.

This sort of modelling supports the justice reinvestment argument that imprisonment simply does not make good economic sense, and — conversely — that investing in mental health services in our communities does.