Sentences with phrase «much less government»

But there is much less government support for relatively active seniors who want in - home care or to live in a retirement residence.

They will have to pay higher taxes and enjoy much less government spending, benefits and services.

A special election for state senate on Jan. 8 in Georgia brings another opportunity to give voters a choice for much less government.

Likewise, Governor Cuomo's derelict and incompetent staff lost my documents twice last year, under the direction of a now defunct employee named Lindsay Saffron, and you can understand how I will never be able to trust all unreliable and unstable politicians, much less government watchdog agencies that continue to ignore corruption that is within their purview to complete and investigate.

LP News, the national party's publication of record, has been there to celebrate its victories, accomplishment, strategies, and hopes for much less government, more freedom and peace.

That's how the Libertarian Party can demonstrate to voters that we can make their lives better with more freedom and much less government.

Not exact matches

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

If the NDP is scaling down its plans to a one or two percentage point increase, then it's not clear how a NDP government could avoid the spending cuts that are built into the current budget projection, much less finance new spending.

At today's prices, industry forecasts of three million barrels per day by 2020 are likely to underestimate production by a bit, but the real kicker will be on the value of that production to all concerned — governments, via taxes and royalties, and shareholders will all suffer much lower returns from this development than they would have expected less than a year ago if prices stay where they are today.

But having one's religious conscience protected from intrusion by one's fellow citizens is a much less compelling need than having it protected from the government.

Public criticism of corruption and incompetence of government officials, once prevalent, is much less frequent on weibo these days.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

If the NDP is scaling down its plans to a one - or two - percentage - point increase, then it's not clear how an NDP government could avoid the spending cuts that are built into the current budget projection, much less finance new spending.

AUGUST 2006: Chris Wood's «Rough Weather Ahead,» the first Tyee Reporting Fellowship reader - funded series published by Tyee, breaks news of a buried government report showing Fraser River dikes won't hold back historic, much less global warming, levels of flooding.

Yet governments in Canada continue to protect this small segment — less than one - half of one per cent of Canada's economy — even though the system significantly, and adversely, affects much larger parts of the economy.

Therefore greater efforts are needed by government and industry to embrace less polluting and more efficient technologies to ensure that coal becomes a much cleaner source of energy in the decades to come.

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.

Based on government valuations, companies deciding to renew their concessions under MP 579, such as Eletrobras, would be forced to receive indemnity payments as much as 50 % less than the book value of their assets.

The Opposition can complain about it, but it has no power to make the government listen, much less change its mind on anything.

Put simply, the Laffer curve illustrates what happens when the government raises taxes too much — theoretically, it ends up bringing in less revenue than before the tax hike.

No financial services company wants to find itself apologizing to the public and regulators for discriminatory effects caused by its own technology, much less paying damages in the context of government enforcement or private litigation.

Though the ECB has acknowledged that one of the main factors underlying the eurozone's stagnation is a lack of credit growth, any potential use of QE seems unlikely to make much of an impact in this regard, even if an announcement of QE could drive yields down further, making it even less attractive for banks to hold government bonds.

The Provisional Government's courts had become circuses, meting out death and other harsh sentences to some collaborators while treating far more guilty ones much less harshly.

So much for smaller, less intrusive government...

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

I believe that Israel should and must exist, but I can not support the policies of the Israeli government that enforce separate standards of living for Arab Israelis, much less the continual deprivation of civil rights andconfiscation of Palestinian lands in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank).

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»

But the basic belief in a smaller, less intrusive, government is very much in line with our founding principles.

For example, many of them are likely unaware that the largest Protestant denomination in America, Southern Baptists, can not even tolerate a centralized church government, much less a central government controlled by the church.

In its spread, Christianity was given much smaller financial assistance by governments, and was less under state control than in the preceding period.

True Friend, I as an atheist and human being like you, would not want (and do not want to see) a system of government, culture, society, religion, or authority where if I were to wave a careless hand with unthinking anger, the deaths of anyone would be encompassed, much less the deaths of billions of human beings of any belief?

In the end analysis, the elimination of this much vilified product will result in less lean offerings at much higher prices to consumers, including the taxpayer who ultimately foots the bill for school lunches and other government procurement.

You and I might be well aware of the interlocking, cozy relationship between the food industry and government, but for many less educated consumers, pink slime has done much to inform and outrage.

New parents don't need the government telling them how to care for their children, much less guilting them into it.

The amount the US government spends per capita is much less than say France, a significant amount.

Surely some of New Labour's right - wing excesses reflect an attitude that Labour can more or less do what it likes in government without alienating too much of its core progressive constituency as this constituency has nowhere else to go.

I know that the population of Greece is much less than in the U.S., however I do not think it matters to people «lending» money to the governments This is where you are mistaken.

It is thought to be a much less common problem than in the US, where the federal government had to intervene with the Prison Rape Elimination Act last year.

The first comment to make is that a Tory majority government has been less radical and much less competent in its first year than the Tory / Lib Dem coalition at the same stage.

Absent that national conversation and the social reforms of the post-war Attlee Government would never have been thought of, much less accomplished.

I know that the population of Greece is much less than in the U.S., however I do not think it matters to people «lending» money to the governments

I know that the population of Greece is much less than in the U.S., however I do not think it matters to people «lending» money to the governments - In both cases it seems extremely unlikely that this money will ever be refunded.

By supporting parties, opinion makers, and other political organizations much of the effort, and most of the knowledge and thinking needed to keep democratic governments more or less responsible can be off - loaded from the general populous.

You just want more government involvement when we really need less, much less.

Over the past three decades or so UK central government has had repeated successive and much - hyped reform initiatives ostensibly designed to make the government machine work better and cost less.

«The secretary of state spent as much time in opposition agreeing to our spending plans and demanding greater spending on the military as he has done in government providing them with less.

The current Tory government received the support of just over a third of voters and less than a quarter of the electorate, the last Labour government much the same.