Ikea now charges a bag fee to customers who don't bring their own, and some cities are imposing taxes on plastic bags or banning them altogether.
The obvious one is how to pay for a wish list including continuing commitments to universal provision of free personal care for the elderly, free prescription, free bus passes for older people, plus another three years of freezing council tax and compensating universities for the gap left when England gets a lot more tuition fee income and Scottish ones don't.
The current rulemaking orgy comes as three out of four investors can't define an "expense ratio" and two-thirds think "no-load" funds are free (in truth, they don't charge a fee to start an account, but they do take annual charges for expenses).
PlayStation 3 console owners don't pay a monthly fee to play against others online.
After all, you don't want lawyers to be fee-driven or to put their own interests above those of society.
Michael Durbin, president of Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services, which works with registered investment advisers, said the redemption fee is "prudent, " adding that the vast majority of investment advisers don't sell ETFs within 60 days.
So-called micropractices are springing up among general practitioners, who, in a fee-for-service age, increasingly have to coordinate a battery of specialists but don't get paid for the air-traffic-control work.
He says the relatively high costs of hedge funds versus mutual funds--hedge fund managers typically charge a 1% to 2% fee plus 20% or more of any profits for the fund each year--don't make them the best option for most individual investors.
If they don't, you keep the assets and are out only the attorney's fee.
But don't forget to cancel the reservation, because Southwest now charges a no-show fee.
You'd think with the way we're covering Vivitar cams this weekend (two posts already, which is just as many as they've gotten in the entire history of Engadget) that their execs might be paying us off or something, but we really don't consider partial ownership of the company to be a payoff- more of a consulting fee.
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