We should not target new sources of tax revenues at the expense of our technology industries that grow our economy, create jobs, and contribute tax revenues many times over the amount achieved by changing the tax on carried interest.

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The government promoted the import of raw materials and technology at the expense of consumer goods, and encouraged savings and investment over consumption.

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And companies reap the benefits of the technology developed at the public expense.

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But despite disagreements over the timeline, most analysts and industry insiders maintain two views: that development of the broadband market is inevitable, and that each technology won't necessarily succeed or fail at the expense of others.

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Critics of existing scrubber technology however point out that the technology only removes the toxic chemicals from the atmosphere at the expense of depositing them in the ocean as contaminated waste water.

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"This wasn't about self-service at the expense of staff, " said Gabriella D'Alessandro, Qantas's head of technology operations.

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Recently Sun has moved aggressively into storage, but Kraemer sees storage leaders such as EMC (nasdaq: EMC - news - people) prospering at Sun's expense, as storage becomes an ever more important piece of the information technology puzzle.

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