Sentences with phrase «politically palatable»

But by focusing on the politically palatable sales pitch of «protecting children,» the government has turned a blind eye to the true harms of the continued criminalization of marijuana.

But if you manage to achieve this in your ETS proposal — would it then be the more or less politically palatable?

An effective campaign for carbon taxes must be both intellectually sound and politically palatable.

Even if an operational global carbon trading system could feasibly transfer costs between countries to make it politically palatable, it is likely that countries such as India would not see it as fair.

«The output from today's models is politically palatable,» said Anderson.

He said the lower oil price might spur the use of fossil fuels but could also make it «more politically palatable» for some countries to cut fossil fuel subsidies.

In my view, to be politically palatable across the right and left, an economic approach to reducing emissions must be revenue neutral.

Too bad, because if they put as much effort into shaping how we deal with Climate Change as they do into denying it they might help find a solution that is politically palatable to them.

Indeed, today we are not even considering an actual U.S. carbon tax, which is preferred by almost all academic economists for this purpose, but instead a cap - and - trade system (i.e., emissions rationing) because it is more politically palatable to hide the costs to consumers this way.

«We can't afford to take baby steps anymore because that is what's considered politically palatable.

Sounds like they are struggling with some of the same issues, which are not subject to politically palatable solutions.

On the plus side, looking at anaerobic digestion for example, you are creating an economic incentive to collect and utilize food waste — and you are therefore making measures like San Francisco's mandatory composting laws more economically viable, and politically palatable.

This is how they really feel, it is their reality, and sometimes the truth is not always politically palatable.

Barring that, he said, a more politically palatable way to pull public money from public schools is to change the way to government money used for education is directed.

Surely there's a more politically palatable path.

While a tax credit may be more politically palatable than asking Congress to find or reallocate money to fulfill Trump's $ 20 billion promise to expand charter and private school options, «just because it's more palatable, doesn't mean it tastes good,» said Noelle Ellerson Ng, the group's associate executive director.

Compared to school vouchers and tuition tax credits, state legislatures have generally found charter schools to be more politically palatable.

Our political leaders find it easier, perhaps more politically palatable and certainly more popular, to fund new school buildings and supply students with new computers.

It has only made it politically palatable for some, he says.

In some ways, though, the film's real heart and conscience is old Thaddeus Stevens — who must wrestle with reconciling his deeply held beliefs on equality with the need for compromise that will lead to more politically palatable gradual change.

«They're trying to come up with more politically palatable ways to sell some of this stuff,» said Republican pollster Adam Geller, noting that Democrats also rolled out a new logo and now refer to the Bush tax cuts as «middle - class tax cuts.»

Governments and non-governmental organizations usually concentrate on politically palatable measures, such as numbers of hectares.

«It's quite elegant, and I think it could be politically palatable.»

He notes how the «individualization of victims... has made it more politically palatable for the US... to engage in a seemingly perpetual war», causing death and injury from Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan and Yemen.

Launching missions to track or deflect all potential asteroid threats will be prohibitively expensive, but even a small probability of regional or global devastation may not be politically palatable.

Joseph Aldy, an economist and former special assistant to President Barack Obama on energy policy, says the approach would be «more politically palatable» than cap - and - trade, which is a nonstarter in Washington, D.C., these days.

Maintaining today's nuclear plants will require finding a practical, safe, and politically palatable way to dispose of waste.

Undoing Dickey - Wicker altogether could, legally speaking, be the safest bet — but it may not be politically palatable to lawmakers, especially in an election year.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito set up a commission to contemplate property tax reform, only to reverse course and have it study economic development tax breaks instead, a more politically palatable issue.

By tweaking a course set by President Barack Obama, Trump suggests that he, like Obama and President George W. Bush before him, is facing the bleak reality of Afghanistan: There is no fast or politically palatable way to win, but losing quickly isn't an acceptable option, either.

Targeting rich elderly people for benefit payment cuts could make the move politically palatable.

«No, this is not politically palatable,» said Sara Niccoli, a Democrat running in New York's 46th District.

Those sources also said the MTA has been working to mitigate costs in order to make the project more politically palatable.

It creates an distinct feeling of unease - but the moral weight of the climate change lobby makes it politically palatable to almost everyone.

Theresa May and her cabinet hold fast to a commitment to reduce net immigration numbers and, in an effort to make the approach more politically palatable, present a rigid dichotomy between the dishonest, criminal, «illegal» migrant (a category which usually includes asylum seekers), and the hard working, tax - paying, rule - observing migrant.

Returning to the days of Railtrack just wouldn't be politically palatable.»

Fourth, and perhaps more speculatively, it seems plausible that such a reform would be politically palatable to a larger share of parliamentarians than existing proposals.

There is a fundamental disconnect between what is political palatable in Britain and what is politically palatable in Europe.

The reform's tax competitive stance is likely to be politically palatable because most voters neither understand nor care that the Trump administration's fight for a larger United States share of the worldwide economy might result in a smaller worldwide economy overall.

While such a maneuver is feasible, it may not be politically palatable, especially on the corporate front.

Indeed, the project quotes Chamber President Thomas Donohue as stating that «the Chamber is in the business of providing «reinsurance» to companies that need help lobbying for positions that aren't publicly or politically palatable.»

It is worth noting that the B.C. government's gimmick of limiting the upper - income tax increase to two years, while perhaps making the move more politically palatable for its base, is bad public policy.

Policies are also most cost - effective when the costs are transparent, but when you see the NRDC campaigning against Keystone XL by telling Americans that their gas prices might go up, you know just how politically palatable a transparent price at the pump will be.

These ideas are a good start, but the focus was on maintaining a balance between Republicans and Democrats, on being politically palatable.

Not exact matches

Many a district leader has found that raising salaries and reducing class sizes is quite a bit more palatable politically than vice versa.

And the fact that charters are not vouchers made it more palatable politically.

He suggested that legislation allowing innovative schools that have considerable autonomy would be politically more palatable.

Treading on ground that is typically avoided for being politically incorrect or taboo, the exhibition created a space for a dialogue that fosters awareness as well as critique through a palatable comedic trope.

This makes any new legislation permitting index switches politically more palatable.»