This proposal creates an uneven playing field which caters to foreign competitors by allowing them to carry on business as usual, free of this added expense.
Far from a zero-sum game, where the successes of some come at the expense of others, free economies climb spirals of mutual gain and learning.
The European monetary system has allowed some countries to get a free ride at the expense of others, while those who cheat are in a position to blackmail those who have to foot the bill.
Demand Progress was instrumental in fighting the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, two bills that would have expanded government oversight in fighting Internet piracy and copyright violations at the possible expense of the free flow of information.
But, that comes at the expense of adaptor-free compatibility with the zillions of iPod docks out there today.
Certainly, though, he often travelled free of the press pack, partly because his expense account was much smaller than his colleagues', partly (as he must have noticed, but does not here remark) because other journalists and presumably many officials assumed, perhaps wrongly, that he was a spy.
But the government must also ensure that markets here operate free from manipulation that benefits the few at the expense of the many.
One thing we do know is that doctors are enticed into the government programs by the promise of free continuing medical education credit at taxpayer expense.
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They are now enjoying free dialysis at the government's expense, something almost unheard of in China.
They gave free rein to the special interests to write their own rules at the expense of everybody else.
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"If we can help with that one largest expense, it can free up money so they can take care of some of those other things like food and clothing, " he said.
Our diplomacy has been so inept that Russians now think democracy and free markets are euphemisms for unconscionable looting by a powerful criminal elite at the expense of everyone else.
Broadly speaking, the logic goes like this: why should you personally pay to reduce your environmental impact (through hassle and expense of curbing your lifestyle excesses) while others get off scot free?
Yet speech codes persist in large part because university general counsels, often far more worried about the expense and bad press of a harassment lawsuit than the comparatively rare and inexpensive free speech lawsuit, have deemed it rational from a cost-benefit standpoint to censor.
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The Schwab California AMT Tax- Free Money-Fund, with a tempting 3% yield (net of a 0.45% expense ratio), contains, according to the latest published portfolio, a significant chunk of revenue bonds--meaning bonds not backed by the taxing authority of a state or local government.
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