Sentences with phrase «than the public sector does»

Not exact matches

The civil engineers and project managers who do the infrastructure building are less skeptical about the role of the public sector than privatization advocates.

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

The reason tax mix matters is because it explains the Nordic countries, who have much larger public sectors than does Canada, so much so that according to the usual Fraser Institute logic that lower taxes overall would lead to faster economic growth, they ought to be complete basket cases.

What makes the government greed worse than the private is that the American public didn't vote for the private sector people.

Up and down the country there are many good examples of hospitals, schools, roads, housing and administrative services being successfully and efficiently delivered at less cost and with greater efficiency than the public sector was able to do.

And that's not even to mention the media - saturated propaganda about how much more efficient the private sector is, how the profit motive means it gets more things done better for less money than the public sector.

Public housing tenants are much more likely than renters in other sectors to struggle to get repair and maintenance done.

The Telegraph's Philip Johnston applauds the reduction in public sector jobs: «Removing many back office staff is a good thing because it becomes necessary to deal with people directly rather than split the functions of a service... The fact is that the public sector employs 800,000 more people than in 1997, many of them engaged in developing specifications, writing guidance, drawing up standards, devising targets, enforcing inspections — all in the name of a reform programme that does not work properly.

However, this does not tell the whole story as Capital Investment from the public sector, which accounts for more than one - third of total construction activity, will have fallen 30 % by the end of 2013.

10:51 - Edward Leigh on public sector consequences of the crisis: «What more can you do to boost the economy without ruining it; to stop it becoming crash, rather than flash, Gordon?»

A clear alternative, that does not involve throwing tens of thousands of public sector workers onto the dole — a move that would cost more than ten billion in lost tax revenue and increased state benefit payments.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

«Clearly, Cuomo and the Assembly Democrats who voted against our amendment are more concerned about appeasing the public sector unions that get them elected than they are about doing what is right for the developmentally disabled.»

In essence, this involves two things: growing the private sector, and reforming the public sector so that what the Government does — and the money it spends — boosts, rather than undermines, Britain's competitiveness.

«Revitalizing the public sector will do much more for the economy and the business climate across the board than tax breaks and subsidies for special interests.»

Criticising the government's decision to tackle the deficit through cutting back on public spending, Mr Barber's alternative Plan B would tax higher earners more rather than targeting «the poorest and most vulnerable,» which, he argues, is what the current public sector cuts are doing.

The dreaded emphasis on profitability means that private sector ventures have much more cause to pursue efficiency and scale than do non-profits or public ventures.

Moreover, the program has been found to save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars every year because the private sector educates students more economically than does the public sector.

Many private schools do lay claim to a broader range of educational goals than do their public - sector counterparts.

Most students will continue to attend public colleges for the foreseeable future, but the private, non-profit sector plays an important role and may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility than it currently does.

When 4th graders themselves were asked how often a language other than English was spoken at home, 18 percent in the public sector replied «all or most of the time» as did 12 percent in the private sector.

Third, keeping primary - secondary education separate from the rest of the public sector now does more harm than good.

TPS and LGPS Pensions are viewed as a benefit but, at the end of the day, someone has to pay for them and the pensions in education — and all the public sector — are so much better than in the private sector; the figures just do not add up and both pension schemes have been underfunded for years.

«No Money in the Bank» does more than layout the many dimensions of the public sector pension crisis in crisp, highly readable prose, though it does that very well indeed.

Our deep belief in punishing black students is the reason King must do more than make friendly suggestions to the charter sector and the rest of the nation's public schools.

The charter sector that she supports avidly does not do better overall than public school, and her favored charter school landscape is a nearly unregulated free for all with for profit operators — which invites in fraud and self dealing.

That's why many public sector workers discover that they actually have a much higher standard of living in retirement than they did when they were working.

The infrared camera, though, is doing more than just cutting emission and reducing costs; it's changing the attitudes of the public and policy makers about the need to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sector.

While I'm for transparency, I don't like the California initiative because it's rife with exemptions and special cases, all of which speak of a double standard and point to the intent being less to protect public health than make life complicated or costlier for some agriculture sectors.

«Those of us in the public health sector started to realize years ago that there were potential risks, then the industry rolled out faster than we could do our science.»

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

One does not trim down the departments in the public service which used to deal with such projects, systematically subcontract an increasing number of tasks to the private sector (often less on the basis of technical skills than favors for politically well - connected campaign supporters), or engage in a policy of «let the private sector figure it out for the best» without arriving at a stage where even dedicated teams can not do things, because they simply no longer have the experience required to do things.

I served for years as the technical watchdog for scientists and engineers, we had partners from the public sector, and I didn't sense any particular difference in behavior, other than those of us who worked for private outfits were paid better and had a much crisper and efficient work environment.

It is worth noting that Bill 203 applies to private and public sector employers, and imposes wider obligations than does Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic sector employers, and imposes wider obligations than does Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarPublic Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendar year.

Moreover, its an oddly narrow right, applying as it does, only to public sector unions and only to the government in their role as employers, rather than legislators.