The idea of entering personal ID codes for every session seems onerous and nanny-state-ish.
Instead, we need a long-term, comprehensive and compassionate program to ween ourselves from the nanny-state and its attendant, non-productive bureaucracies.
His administration has imposed an array of intrusive, nanny-state, financial, environmental and consumer-product regulations that will cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars.
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We also noted the predictable opposition of nanny-state activists and academics who cringed at the non-governmental standard setting and assertion of commercial free speech rights.
Thanks to timely economic and financial reforms and shedding some of its nanny-state image, Singapore has stolen much of Hong Kong's limelight and pinched a number of its multinational corporations.
It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.
In place of his recent timid, disparage-the-Tories-but-give-nothing-away approach he has the chance to stride on to genuinely new ground, leaving behind the old Labour producer interests and nanny-state mentality that have so bedevilled the party in the past.
Bloomberg justifies his nanny-state interventions by pointing to the social costs of obesity, but there is no direct causal link between obesity and 20-ounce sodas with sugar in them, and neither would it be anyone's business at all except for the increasing government control and subsidies for health care.
Theoretically, budgeting would mean that adopting a new nanny-state regulation that may offer a minuscule improvement in safety would be directly weighed against the much greater and more cheaply achieved benefits of (just for example, there are loads of them) painting white lines down the middle of unmarked public country roads.
Every penny in taxes, every mandate or regulation defining permitted or prohibited activities, and every well-meaning nanny state intrusion slides us further from sovereign, self-reliant citizens towards serfdom.
So, once again the ever-vigilant Nanny State has saved the Little Old Helpless Consumer from the ravages of those nasty (and rapacious) capitalists.
No longer will Britain be bound by every anti-business, nanny state, interfering regulation dreamt up by the Commission.
Even those usually associated in the public mind with the nanny state are dismayed at the heavy-handed approach.
And those who are can buy "puts" on shares purchased as a form of portfolio insurance meant to protect their downside--all without someone from the Nanny State holding their hand.
And if you are a died-in-the-wool progressive doing everything you can to expand the nanny state, feel free to ignore the movie.
The employer must withhold state and federal income taxes and social-security taxes from the nanny's wages weekly and remit them to the various tax authorities every quarter, as well as dealing with the agencies that run unemployment-insurance and injury-insurance schemes.
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