The practical problem is that the proposed bill will become so tough that it is self-defeating.
This urge to shore up wealth is self-defeating in aggregate, as it curbs spending and incomes.
It is self-defeating, since a country without allies forfeits influence the more it stands alone.
And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating.
Rome was not built in a day and trying to completely change your financial life all at once is self-defeating.
But I do think at a certain level women have to look at whether or not their behavior is self-defeating to a certain extent.
This sort of treatment of a Fox News reporter by the more liberal media outlets is not only shameful, it is self-defeating.
If prohibitionism really is driven by morality, then it is self-defeating.
But this is self-defeating in the end.
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Professor Taniuchi says plainly that the idea of simply raising taxes to fund ever-increasing expenditures is self-defeating, sapping initiative of Japanese workers while pushing companies to relocate production and jobs overseas, causing growth and revenues to slow further.
China and Russia may now have decided that it is self-defeating to make comments that undermine the value of the dollar and thus the value of their own reserves, says Mr Derrick at Bank of New York Mellon.
Louis Woodhill, following on the work of Art Laffer, developed a framework for judging whether any given amendment to current tax law pays for itself or is self-defeating by analyzing the change in the present value of revenues discounted out to the infinite horizon produced by the tax amendment.
This is why class-warfare tax policy is so self-defeating.
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It goes without saying that resources are limited in our recession-ravaged economies ... but disinvesting in seed corn is obviously self-defeating.
Austerity is always self-defeating, because tax hikes suppress economic growth, and economic growth is the only thing that really matters to government finances.
Anxiety is especially self-defeating when people focus on the fear itself, rather than the task at hand.
Ms. Sandberg argues that, among other things, this is economically self-defeating.
This video gives five reasons why this is a self-defeating approach.
Such jingoism is also self-defeating.
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That all this time later, European publishers are still railing against a powerful force that wants to help them is absurd and self-defeating.
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To try to effect a political federation of such disparate nations and cultures with hardly a by-your-leave of the people most directly affected is preposterous and ultimately self-defeating.
This self-effacing, self-defeating approach is typical of neoconservative foreign policy regardless of whether it is practiced by Democrats or Republicans and it is avowedly anti-self because it presumes self-interest is evil.
"It is time to put self-defeating attitudes aside and recognize that we are fighting a disease not people, " Dr. Koop said in 1986.
China, for the moment, is trapped in various self-defeating loops.
Moderating austerity programmes is a priority (Spain shows how self-defeating they can be), but so is pursuing the structural reforms to set entrepreneurs free.
Each is engaged in a collectively self-defeating, yet individually rational, attempt to take rent from the other.
As for its rhetoric, as the EU's rush to threaten Israel for allegedly killing a terrorist shows, it is cowardly, ineffectual and self-defeating.
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