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Why Does the Government Encourage Building in Storm Areas?
The United States accounts for only 4% of the hurricanes that make landfall, so why does the country incur 60% of the costs? Justin and Lance discuss this revelation from The New York Times.
Given the massive backlash/debate going on over the impending (supposed) repeal of the Affordable Care Act, there seems to be one particular fact which a huge number of Obamacare opponents (and even many supporters of the law) don't seem to be aware...
By Daily Kos user Brainwrap
Subsidise / Subsidize
transitive verb
To assist or support with a subsidy.
To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy.
To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money.
Didi to subsidize trips for vaccinations with $10M global fund – TechCrunch
Didi to subsidize trips for vaccinations with $10M global fund – TechCrunch
As countries around the world prepare to vaccinate people against the coronavirus, tech companies are rushing to demonstrate their willingness to help fight the deadly virus. China’s ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing is pledging a $10 million fund to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts in 13 markets outside its home country China, the company said on Friday. The multi-purpose fund will be used to…
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Because Of COVID-19, You Won’t Have To Pay Your Student Loan For 3 Months – Finance Minister Posted by @nationwide90fm via #twitter Because Of COVID-19, You Won’t Have To Pay Your Student Loan For 3 Months – Finance Minister Finance Minister Dr. Nigel Clarke has announced that the Students’ Loan Bureau is to waive late fees and defer repayments for all loans, principals, and interest for 3 months due to #COVID-19 outbreak. He made the announcement in Parliament this afternoon as he closed the 2020/2021 budget debate. He says the measure will form part of the Government stimulus package to the global #pandemic. This as he says that the country will experience a negative economic shock from the outbreak. But he says “counter-cyclical policy” measures will aid in reducing impact. “We will #subsidize people but it is not reasonable to expect the Government to subsidize profits,” the Finance Minister said. “Our unequivocal message to you is that we care and help is on the way,” Minister Clarke declared. He says all will be done to ameliorate the effect of the #virus. @studentsloanbureau @mofjamaica @moe_jamaica @drnigelclarkeja #scholarshipjamaica #slbjamaica #studentloan #coronavirusjamaica #nationwidenews (at ScholarshipJamaica.com) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-PQhezhOv7/?igshid=vq5e63mxdvwa
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The world would be richer and healthier if the full costs of fossil fuels were paid, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund
The United States has spent more subsidizing fossil fuels in recent years than it has on defense spending, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund.
The IMF found that direct and indirect subsidies for coal, oil and gas in the U.S. reached $649 billion in 2015. Pentagon spending that same year was $599 billion.
(...) Oil, gas and coal companies — and their stooges in public office — have long argued that making consumers pay for the full impacts of fossil fuel use would cripple the economy. The IMF experts call bullshit on this idea, revealing that the world would, in fact, be more prosperous. Eliminating subsidies for fossil fuels would have created global “net economic welfare gains” in 2015 of “more than $1.3 trillion, or 1.7 percent of global GDP,” the study found. (These net gains are “calculated as the benefits from reduced environmental damage and higher revenue minus the losses from consumers facing higher energy prices.”)
(...) At the opening of the IMF’s spring meetings in April, Managing Director Christine Lagarde laid out the benefits she sees in properly pricing fossil fuels. “The numbers are quite staggering” she said, referring to the savings that could be achieved “fiscally, but also in terms of human life, if there had been the right price on carbon emission as of 2015.”
Lagarde continued to rattle off the benefits to humanity of realizing these savings. “There would be more public spending available to build hospitals, to build roads, to build schools and to support education and health for the people,” she said.
For Lagarde and the IMF, the conclusion was obvious: “We believe that removing fossil fuel subsidies is the right way to go.”
Allow Americans to ‘Opt Out’ of Abortion and War
Allow Americans to ‘Opt Out’ of Abortion and War
By Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
November 27, 2018
Allow Americans to ‘Opt Out’ of Abortion and War
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released proposed rules allowing individuals to opt out of Obamacare’s abortion and contraception mandates for moral or religious reasons. These new rules should be cheered by all who agree with Thomas Jefferson that forcing people to…
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