If further tax increases are off the table and they certainly will be for the next five years or more the target for PM Noda must now become real old age welfare system cost cutting.
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The Industrial Revolution involved hugely painful economic and social dislocations though nearly everybody would now agree that the gains in human welfare were worth the cost.
The voluntary provision of charity is economically an excellent thing, since it reduces the need for public welfare organisations that usually cost more to run.
But keep in mind that as we take more of their benefits checks via higher payments on income taxes, we move them closer and closer to the welfare roles where the cost to those of us who do pay income taxes becomes far more substantial.
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According to this thinking, single nations are too small to maintain high-cost social-welfare models in the face of global competition.
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While Obamacare includes new health insurance welfare to help pay that cost, the net that working and middle class taxpayers would have to pay is still like a new payroll tax or income tax.
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And though it requires welfare recipients, of which there are roughly 113, 000 in the state, to pay for the test, it raises their initial welfare payment to cover the cost of the test so long as they pass it, that is.
One explains that Singapore needs to weed out undeserving claimants and shakes his head at the potential cost of a comprehensive welfare service.
The toxic combination of rising women's unemployment, cuts to welfare and the ever-increasing cost of living in the capital means that life for London's women is going to get tougher.
Mr Blair's critics have pointed out that moving people off welfare and into work is likely to cost more in the short term.
Mr. Santorum argues that the cost of Europe's massive welfare states made it too expensive for young people to have families.
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The way would have been at least semi-clear for the sweeping reform of taxation, welfare and the labour market that high-cost Germany, with its unemployment rate of over 10%, badly needs.
What will replacement suckler cows cost us after having all ours slaughtered on the welfare scheme?
Either you supply more grains for welfare programs or keep huge inventories, there is a high cost involved in all.
The CBAs collectively mandate maintenance of 80 different health and welfare benefit plans, the sheer number of which impose excessive administrative and cost burdens on the Debtors.
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Other worries, such as cost, should abate as the unique identities are tied to bank accounts of welfare recipients, and so help track the flow of public money.
Currently he said, local authorities were reimbursed for any unforeseen expenditure and government grant met the full cost of the benefit scheme, as part of the overall national scheme of welfare benefits, which was the responsibility of the Department for Work and Pensions.
But, as elsewhere, it is actually a welfare program in which potential beneficiaries, as a class, pay only a small fraction of cost and are subsidized by non-potential beneficiaries.
The paper challenges the Scottish government to set out the cost of setting up and running a treasury, tax authority and central bank, a welfare structure, a foreign service, armed forces, an interior ministry to handle citizenship, immigration and border control, and regulators for issues including pensions, energy, telecommunications, health and safety, takeovers and advertising standards.
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