Sentences with phrase «of hidden subsidies»

Everyone knows there are lots of hidden subsidies.

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Musk called this a «hidden carbon subsidy of $ 5.3 trillion per year,» citing the International Monetary Fund.

«When you talk about blocking off the flow of something to the rest of the world so we can process it here, what you in effect are doing is demanding a subsidy, hidden or otherwise.

They may, like China, engage in a host of illicit activities - pay - offs, piracy, hidden subsidies — to promote national champions.

One of them, posted online on Dec. 29, revealed the billions of dollars in hidden perks and subsidies that the Chinese government provides to the world's biggest iPhone factory.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Boris Bittker, in an important 1976 Yale Law Journal article, «The Exemption of Nonprofit Organizations from Federal Income Taxation,» states the correct concept: «The exemption of nonprofit organizations from federal income taxation is neither a special privilege nor a hidden subsidy.

But others are more «submerged», hidden either because they are channelled through private delivery organizations or because they come to citizens in the form of indirect subsidies and tax rebates rather than through direct governmental spending.

Many of the fraudsters hid the presence and income of a family member to allow them to be eligible for subsidies.

«In a free - market economy, it makes sense to a lot of people when you say that not having a green tax is a hidden subsidy, and that's something that at least resonates among the more conservative economists,» Mena - Carrasco said.

Just imagine what the comparison would be like without all those government subsidies, otherwise known as your tax dollars, that go to hide the externalities in the true cost of animal agriculture.

The reauthorization of the Higher Education Act presents an excellent opportunity for policymakers to create a clearer and fairer system with fewer hidden subsidies and perverse incentives.

Vanity publishers, sometimes disguised as an Online Subsidy Publisher, require authors to pay expensive fees to use their services and often involves a sketchy editing process and hidden contract terms that take possession of your copyright.

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Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

The question of hidden, and not so hidden, subsidies for oil, as well as coal, keeps coming up in environmental debates.

It would end subsidies, overt and hidden, that favor status - quo fuels and retard the adoption of replacements.

-- There is no such thing as avoided infrastructure costs involved in green schemes, because they have required government subsidies that hide the real costs of such projects.

The true costs of these renewables are often hidden though cost shifting and subsidies.

Government mandates and subsidies hide the true cost of renewable energy but these additional costs must be carried by others.

Bart R laments that this is nothing compared to alleged subsidies for oil companies, laughingly referring to the pack of politically - motivated lies, distortions and information - hiding by the likes of Mann, as «knowledge».

The author apparently assumes naively that the huge federal subsidies for wind facilities (which merely shift cost from «wind farm» owners to taxpayers and electric customers and hide them in tax bills and monthly electric bills) are not a part of the true costs.

The prices were supposed to balance out the hidden costs of conventional power, from pollution to decades of coal subsidies.

(While sustainably generated electricity is sold at a higher price than fossil fuel generated electricity — and this is a form of subsidy — it does not receive the numerous hidden subsidies that fossil fuel power gets.)

I'm find myself little concerned with patriotic hubris, bozo money calculations, taxpayer subsidies, and hidden costs since my current gasoline powered vehicle has all that and more as part of its limited charm.

We may not know with total certainty the usefulness of any renewable energy technologies until the hidden fossil fuel energy subsidies are finally removed.

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The well - choreographed customs routine is part of a hidden bounty of perks, tax breaks and subsidies in China that supports the world's biggest iPhone factory, according to confidential government records reviewed by The New York Times, as well as more than 100 interviews with factory workers, logistics handlers, truck drivers, tax specialists and current and former Apple executives.