Sentences with phrase «with big government»

Big business in bed with big government.

There was one little problem with the Big Government piece, though.

The policies being pursued, especially here in california, are designed to punish and will ultimately only lead to higher energy prices affecting productivity and the poor with big government being the only winner.

Bob Worsley's voting record proves beyond a shadow of doubt that he is very comfortable with Big Government, Big Corporate, and Special Interest control over the education that every Arizona child receives beginning in Kindergarten through Grade 12.

«Charlie Crist has repeatedly joined with big government liberals on major economic issues facing America today, from taxes to spending to cap - and - trade,» Chocola said.

The real issue with big government is its misuse and when it's used to target and help a specific group of people instead of leveling the playing field.

In the new imperial division of labor on display in Afghanistan, the Americans do most of the fighting while the Europeans, who have no ideological problems with big government but don't like fighting, are only too happy to take on the soft sides of nation - building: roads, schools, sanitation and water.

Not exact matches

The fee could be based on a percentage of their gross farm receipts (the total of receipts from all agricultural products sold, government program payments and contract work done on other farms), with bigger farms shouldering more of the cost.

Given the number of body brokers that currently operate in America, academics and others familiar with the industry say regular inspections of facilities and reviews of donor consent forms wouldn't place a big burden on government.

«But perhaps his biggest challenge will be making peace with the government in light of this summer's Verizon wars, which thankfully seem behind us,» Ghose said.

Second, here's a big - bank CEO asking for the government to introduce yet another grandiose plan, complete with new regulations and requirements.

But Riley's main point is that it's not just the «Big 9» colluding with the NSA — the government's reach among private enterprise is far deeper.

With TPP collapsing and NAFTA in question, Canada's government is grasping for a big, decisive win.

Italy appeared to be taking a step closer to forming a coalition government on Wednesday, with the country's president seeking to push coalition talks between the biggest political parties.

The Fortune Global Forum creates a valuable opportunity for the CEOs of the world's biggest multinational companies — the Fortune Global 500 — to actively engage with China and its leaders from both business and government.

Though Portugal is one of the fastest growing euro zone economies, problems with non-performing loans and high debt among businesses, individuals and government are a big hurdle - mainly at a time when the government's strategy is focused on consumer spending.

Breaking into a field dominated by big companies with long government contracts is tough to do.

Meanwhile, SpaceDev, the rocket motor supplier for SpaceShipOne, is also working on a manned orbital vehicle, funding itself not only through rocket motor sales but through contracts with NASA — which might eventually be willing to pay big bucks to a private company to get government astronauts into orbit.

Blank, Harder, and Lanz typify the Movement that Paul has galvanized with new and independent voters who think that the federal government is too big and that the U.S. should stay out of conflicts overseas.

Declarations of the independents - Independents appear to agree with Democrats that the biggest risk to the economy next year is government dysfunction (38 percent of Independents and 43 percent of Democrats).

Our latest Sustainly Trend Briefing examines how some of the world's biggest companies are collaborating with tech start ups, municipal governments and community organizations working to create Smart City services and experiences, and how these innovations can deliver more sustainable living and business.

In 2010, red shirt protestors shut down Bangkok's central business district for weeks; the government responded with a crackdown that resulted in 92 deaths, and provoked the torching of Bangkok's biggest megamall and the nation's stock exchange.

Big - business leaders are fed up with the tactics of conservative Republicans, who instigated a partial closure of the Federal government and engaged in brinksmanship over the debt ceiling in a failed effort to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

Inc.com's Lou Dubois talked with Torpey about how social media helped his campaign, why bringing technology to government is important and the biggest challenges of being a 23 - year - old mayor.

And in speeches to some of the country's biggest banks, she highlighted her long ties to Wall Street, bantering with top executives and saying that she views the financial industry as a partner in government regulation.

So the government is going to have to come to terms with what that means for affordability in the cities, what's that's going to mean for infrastructure, education — it's a big equation.

Even so, if Trump decides he's done with the agreement, Trudeau's government could be among the first big casualties.

With the rise of a small number of big tech companies — and governments using technology to watch their citizens — many people now believe technology only centralizes power rather than decentralizes it.

That's a big deal, because it makes our tax system uncertain, and Canadians are telling the government today that they aren't good with that.

Tim Hwang, armed with nothing but big data and some millennial elbow grease, is out to make government — and our entire economy — more efficient.

In looking over the reasons business owners gave for being pessimistic, the biggest pool had to do with frustration with the government, including its inaction.

«It is a good start for Germany to have a stable government... after so many months, there is now a big incentive to get down to work with energy,» Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said.

A co-funding program with angel investors and a commercialisation fund for Western Australia's universities are the «big ticket» items in the state government's $ 20 million innovation strategy, released last night.

Crown - of - thorns starfish eat tons of coral and there have been big outbreaks recently, so it's no surprise that the Australian government sees dealing with them as a big priority.

But as if to advertise its success and thumb an unwrinkled nose at the government, in early November Allergan announced plans to build a US$ 12 - billion research facility in New Jersey, a state with a big pharmaceutical sector hurt by the recession — and home to lots of rich housewives.

As part of the explanation as to why Europe gives proportionately more ODA, Gunzburg noted that countries with bigger welfare states — like those for which the Scandinavian nations are famed — tend to pay higher taxes, leading to more government revenue that can be spent on aid.

That is because neither Clinton will occupy a prominent role in government in the immediate future — curtailing the willingness of at least some big donors to try and curry favor with the foundation by writing large checks.

The face - to - face comes after Trudeau, whose government is struggling with a pipeline crisis at home, pitched Canada as a great place to invest by telling hundreds of business leaders «that big things can get done in Canada.»

The Trudeau government simply picked up the thread and put some serious (borrowed) coin behind it, with its big - innovation, big - infrastructure plan racking up $ 145 billion in deficits over six years.

«If the government wheeled out a significant medium - term infrastructure program, I don't think I'd have a big problem with it — they can borrow very cheaply and there's a pretty good case to be made that there's lots of demand for infrastructure.»

Most biting of all, critics have branded Bechtel as the archetype for a big business that feeds from government contracts — about half its sales flow from state - sponsored projects — and cultivates cozy ties with officials to gain an unfair edge.

Now if you have a big business — and I ran Hewlett - Packard and it is a huge business, and we don't like business regulations, but we can deal with them — but the bigger government gets and the more complex regulations get, and the more complicated the tax code gets — and all of that is happening — the more difficult it will be for small business.

Being bigger gave them more pricing power when dealing with oil service contractors and greater leverage when negotiating with foreign governments.

So by this time next year, it is possible that Big Oil will go the way of Rockefeller's once gargantuan Standard Oil — with the markets, not the government, forcing a break up this time.

He has also accused the Tokyo government of using monetary policy to devalue its currency and has also lumped Japan with China and Mexico as big contributors to the U.S. trade deficit.

«Bankism is the idea that big banks are in control of the economy and not the free markets, trade, product development or business,» says Gerald Celente, founder and director of TRI, a Kingston, N.Y., company that consults with governments and businesses.

While France and Italy have emphasised the importance of more talks, a big majority of the 19 euro zone governments favour taking a hard line with Greece, diplomats said, and Germans are running out of patience.

With eliminating the deficit in time for the election the government's single biggest priority, it follows that the Finance Minister who brought Canada through the recession in relatively sound shape should be kept on to ensure the books are balanced on schedule.

While our own government in Ottawa silently condones the plans for further integration with the U.S., and while our provincial governments continue to be completely sound asleep on this vitally important topic, irony of ironies, at this writing 15 U.S. states have expressed concern that the big business sponsored Security and Prosperity Partnership is a process that, wait for it, is a threat to states» rights and to the sovereignty of the United States.