Sentences with phrase «great burden on societies»
Most of the science and economics community would dispute 3 — tax shifts away from goods like capital, income, or labor and towards bads like CO2 would not pose a great burden on societies, rich or poor.
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The Blairite tendency (Peter Mandelson etc) would have Labour move rightwards, with a greater burden placed on the poorer sections of society, which would further undermine Labour support.
They note that diseases imposing a relatively small burden on U.S. society, such as AIDS, can get a larger share of NIH funding than those that cause greater harm, such as heart disease.
While it's important not to overstate the case — again, improved health care can be a double - edged sword, if people are able to live longer because of it but at greater financial cost — one way to interpret this study is that if more people are not economically old, that is they are still contributing to society on their own and not collecting pension or requiring increased health care, there is less burden on falling population levels from an otherwise aging population.
Suburban REALTORS Alliance Position The Alliance is opposed to increases in the current transfer tax for the following reasons: 1) As the transfer tax is levied only on buyers and sellers of property, the burden per taxpayer is greater than the burden from a more broad - based tax designed to generate the same amount of revenue; 2) Since public transportation is a benefit that is open to all members of society, the charge should not be placed solely on buyers and sellers of property; 3) The transfer tax adds additional burdens on first - time home buyers saving for a down - payment and covering the closing costs and runs contrary to existing federal, state, and local programs including the mortgage interest deduction, low interest property maintenance loans, and grants to first time homebuyers; 4) A real estate transfer tax is a state and local tax assessed on real property when ownership of the property is exchanged between parties.