e.g If the government needed to cut unemployment they would budget for a deficit so more money is injected and less money is taken from the economy by less taxes and higher expenditure raising employment. ... It controls the availability of money by influencing the level of interest rates. Lowering interest rates encourages people to spend and borrow while higher interest rates encourages people to save and not borrow. ...

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Also, legalizing marijuana would give the United States Government the ability to tax the drug and put this much needed money into much more important areas. The amount of money the government would obtain by legalizing it through taxes in addition to the money they would save by not having to spend trying to stop the trafficking is overwhelming. Then, the United States Government would be able to put this money into much more productive areas such as drug education and drug treatment facilities. ... If the United States government would legalize marijuana it would save taxpayers billions o...

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As a smoker, Freeman's article "Fat Smokers Save You Money" struck a nerve with me. I too have been irritated by the argument that the government has a right to interfere with my personal choice to smoke because I somehow "cost everyone else money". ... That's money in the bank for the government. ... The question as to whether or not to impose special taxes on "unhealthy" foods because "obesity costs us money" is outrageous. ...

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Domestic debt was not fully paid because Hamilton believed that if the government owed its citizens money, the citizens would work hard to make sure that the government was prosperous. ... His debt reduction plan fulfilled his goal to restore the faith in the government and public credit, attracted foreign capital to the United States, and increased the effective stock of money, thereby stimulated the economy. ... Western banks, had distributed more money than they had backed by gold and silver, causing inflation. Hamilton also knew that tariffs couldn't raise enough money to pay...

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In our lives we face many things, like stress, stress from work stress from our families or from health or money. ... EXPENSES: Now these advertising expenses will be much more effective and cheaper than all the money that is put into the war on drugs. ... Not to mention that 57% or more people in the jails will not be there which will save us billions. Money that we can put towards education, finding a cure for Aids and Cancer and maybe even Parkinson's disease. ...

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Another vital statistic is fact that the system in its" current incarnation will run out of money in 25 years if something is not reformed. (Markus) It is obvious from studies and comparisons of U.S. healthcare to other systems that a straight correlation between the amounts of money spent on healthcare and actual health does not exist. ... (Brownlee) The highest spending areas as far as medical treatments are concerned are the ones overpopulated with doctors, which therefore have an abundance of equipment and drugs that must be used to make money. ... This alone could save dozens of billio...

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Opium was a drug that people had become addicted to and spent a lot of money on. ... Hope that the Boxers would save China by getting rid of the foreign powers was very intentitive. ... The U.S. used its indemnity money to set up funds to educate Chinese students that were sent to American schools. This use of the money gained good will for the U.S. in China. ...

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However, during the Great Depression, money gathered through income taxes decreased, rendering the plan both useless and pointless. ... Additionally, alcohol manufacturing and distribution offered the money and jobs that post-1929 American society desperately needed. ... Paradoxically, the very movement that aimed to save lives killed many. ...

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In addition, most states issued their own money. ... Reserved powers are to be reserved or saved for the state governments. ... It gave the Congress power to tax (concurrent), coin money (delegated), establish schools (reserved), maintain courts (concurrent), regulate commerce (delegated), pass laws (reserved), and raise armed forces (delegated) that were needed. ...

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Inhabitants from the exterior think it is easy to give up buying a new car, or taking that relaxing cruise, or redecorating the house, or getting that new suit because the money used could save the lives of children (Source 2). ... In other words, the United States should use the money, they "apparently don't need," to aid a nation who only cries when they need help. ...

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This would save tax money to be used elsewhere. The unemployment rate would drop greatly and much of the money unaccounted for in the economy would show up once again. ... One problem that could be addressed is how the government would make money if people could get their hands on seeds. ... The government is also greedy so why not just take advantage of a chance to make some money and go out and legalize it! ...

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about the disappearance of the middle class; and the last one titled "Trick or Treat, the Tooth Fairy, and a Tea Party" about lying politicians, the federal debt, and where our money really is going. ... Bagby goes on the explain that Social Security is basically on its way out and that the money being paid now for social security is really being used by the federal government to loosen up our debts with other countries and our big problem, our national debt. ... Even though this money should be saved for the future elders of America, it is being raided by it being included in the overall ...

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The conservative and liberal battles create a conflict in the American social classes, and Schlesinger believed this class conflict to be the factor that saved America. Schlesinger illustrates his point with Jacksonians bank war and the hard money policy of 1836. ... The hard money policy was conceived from Jackson's bank war and was as the alternative to the conservative system of economic theory and to exclude the banks control of the currency. The hard money policies are credited, by Schlesinger, for significantly revamping American politics "economically: by preventing periodic dep...

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A recent study claims to have found that 1,000 lives are saved every year due in part because of SUV's massive size protecting the occupants in the car. ... This would cost manufactures money, but it would also hurt consumers that prefer a bigger engine because now they will have to pay more to get a lower emissions producing engine. ...

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Regardless, something has to be done to stop human trafficking, so that potential victims can be saved. ... By devoting a little amount of time and/or money into human trafficking prevention and elimination, one can support a great change in how trafficking networks are perused....

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The Patent has caused a problem in the past couple of weeks, in that Bayer's rivals have opted to produce Cipro for free in order to show that they are good corporate citizens, and take the money loss to help their country out. ... The U.S. does in a way want to break the patent law and produce Cipro because economically they would save a lot of money. ...

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