Without a doubt, Maine is asking for a lot here, and if granted, the plan would cost taxpayers more in the short run by increasing the cost of the ACA. Yet, what makes the Maine story so interesting is that it adds another example to the list of diverse strategies that are now popping up from states thinking about Medicaid expansion and reform.
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So in the short run, it may actually cost taxpayers more to help someone into work than to support him out of it.
Printing money does not create wealth, though it may help create jobs in the short run at the cost of inflation and a loss of economic freedom.
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Another possible macroeconomic effect of cost growth containment is a short-run impact on unemployment and employment.
Third, it is increasingly clear that the long-run cost estimates of ObamaCare were well short of the mark because of the incentive that employers will have under that plan to end private coverage and put employees on the public system.
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In the short-run it may succeed, though at the potential cost of replacing promised fiscal austerity and state reform with modest helpings of old-fashioned pork.
In particular, how do you balance the loss of public sector investments and jobs that will cost more in the long run with short term budgetary gains?
In short, even if her strategy has paid some dividends, its cost has been ruinous and it has run its course.
But a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the financial impact of a 50-cent-per-pack increase in cigarette taxes shows that while cutting the number of smokers trims government outlays over the short run, the increased longevity and higher end-of-life expenses of non-smokers eventually would cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more from Medicare and Social Security.
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It could cost you more in the long run to ride it out than to bite the bullet with a short sale.
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