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.
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.
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.
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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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.
If so, the normal weapon to cool an overheating economy, higher interest rates, is likely to prove partly self-defeating in China because a rise in interest rates would lure in yet more hot money.
This attitude toward struggle is not only counterproductive -- leading to self-defeating behaviors including retreating inward with self-doubt and avoiding necessary risk for fear of failure -- it is also wrong.
The two sets of statements are so contrary and self-defeating in purpose that it is worth spending a 1000 words on them.
Whether tax rate increases are totally self-defeating or only partially so, their cost in reduced economic activity is high relative to tax revenue gained.
Because it is often human input that makes the products of these industries valuable, cutting labour would be self-defeating.
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