What
kind of incentive do you give someone who drinks, smokes, eats excessive fatty foods, doesn't exercise and says they can live the way they want and they want government funded (taxpayer money) to pay for their healthcare.
Not exact matches
The company was able to pass much
of the costs on to consumers, but
doing so simply created yet another
incentive for shoppers to look for alternatives, especially at a time many are turning away from the
kinds of processed foods Kraft produces.
These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new
incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources
of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that
do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all
kinds of tax shelter abuse.
These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new
incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources
of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that
do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all
kinds of tax - shelter abuse.
Given all that Governor Malloy has
done to clean up the financial wreck he inherited from Rep. Cafero, Sen. McKinney, Governor Rowland, and Governor Rell — a $ 3.5 billion deficit, early retirement
incentives, borrowing for operations, underfunding pension payments, etc. — the criticism is
kind of ironic.
Second is the issue
of incentives: What
kind of rewards
does your employing institution provide to motivate you to work hard to have new, potentially profitable ideas?
«How
do we get to a point on this issue where both conservatives and liberals can drop the ideology and ask a simple question, which is what
kind of rules,
incentives, and programs, what
kind of systems,
do we need to make every possible quality school available to the most disadvantaged kids?»
Even the nonrandom errors that worry testing critics, such as unevenness in the testing scale or the possible influence
of factors outside the school's control,
do not create perverse
incentives because there are no strong theories about the
kinds of behaviors those errors would encourage.
Students helped school leaders prepare for standardized testing by offering input on how they could be grouped on test day and on what
kinds of incentives would encourage them to
do their best.
And in that
kind of environment, you
do see that the
incentives are all in the wrong place and cause schools to push out your lower achievers.
FYI, what you CA N'T
do in exchange for a review is offer some
kind of incentive — «if you write a review, I'll give you a gift» sort
of thing.
With the right
kind of incentives, surely your aged canine friend is able to figure out what else you are trying to have it
do, and perhaps the same can be coaxed out
of the HTC Droid Incredible from Verizon Wireless.
Unlike most brokers in the industry, IG
does not offer any
kind of bonuses or
incentive when a new trader signs up a trading account.
When the sales
incentives disappear, so
does this
kind of «financial advisor.»
I find that very few breeders have the time or patience to educate a buyer about their new pet, and since they know that once the show is
done the customers are gone and hard to track down, they have no
incentive to spend that
kind of time or effort.
If you were
kind of thinking about pre-ordering Brutal Legend rather than waiting to pick it up once it hits the shops, there's now one massive
incentive to
do it via GameStop: an epic guitar that can be used instead
of Clementine, built from the demonic force
of Tenacious D.
What I
do agree with, though, is that changing
incentives has all
kinds of unintended consequences.
First
of all, when supply
of power
of any
kind exceeds demand, prices drop, and generators can reduce output in response, if they have the flexibility and economic
incentives to
do so, Greenlee said.
Instead, as Clark describes, it's the in - house departments that are chasing down firms, trying to sell them on
doing commodity work with all
kinds of incentives, when it's the law firms in need
of business that should be coming up with proposals.
Hiring a diverse workforce in the big firms won't happen because it's the right thing to
do, he says, but because there is some
kind of financial
incentive.
Some companies are not very customer friendly and
do not offer any
kind of incentive to their best clients.
This obviously makes one wonder about the concept
of centralization; we are generally opposed to any
kind of centralization, but at the same time we don't see the centralization
of hashing power as a real issue, as long as the economic
incentives for miners make sense, i.e. as long as the miners» selfinterest is in accordance with that
of Bitcoin.
Do you really trust that he'll put in that
kind of courageous effort, if he has
incentives to help the other team win, too?
And it's a great time
of year to check off painting from your DIY to -
do list, especially with this
kind of incentive.