Sentences with phrase «stopped subsidizing the cost»

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This came as the company stopped offering subsidized smartphones, forcing customers into 24 - month device payment plans that require them to pay for the full cost of the smartphones.

«It costs this state $ 700 million a year to subsidize the profits at McDonald's and Burger King, and that is wrong, and that must stop,» Cuomo told sign - waving union workers in Union Square.

And all of these options would spread even more rapidly if we stopped subsidizing Big Oil and Coal and put a price on carbon that reflected the true cost of fossil energy — either through the much - maligned cap - and - trade approach, or through a revenue - neutral tax swap.

So in the end, if you want fewer cars on the road slowing you down, lower taxes for road maintenance, and reduced health care costs, what you want to do is build more bike lanes, promote cycling, subsidize bike share programmes and stop complaining about cyclists getting a free ride.

Unfortunately for most of us, the increasing cost of health insurance has caused many employers to stop subsidizing their employee's cost of coverage, and others to eliminate their life insurance programs.

Eliminating the considerable overhead represented by the roughly 600,000 drivers it contracts in the U.S. alone may be the company's best path to profitability: It could help Uber reduce costs enough to stop subsidizing the cheap, on - demand rides that helped build up its enormous market share.