But if you live in nearby Greenburgh, just over the Tarrytown border, that same spot will cost $950, a kind of fiscal punishment for not living in the municipality that runs the lot.
Such voters might have feared the further fiscal punishment that Labour threatened to visit them with in 1992 even more than they had come to loathe the Conservatives, but, five years later, Tony Blair was a leader almost purpose-built to capitalise on their sense of betrayal and disillusion.
And under the new fiscal compact, the punishment by Brussels if a Parliament overturns one of those new laws is but a fiscal slap on the wrist: a penalty of only 0.1 percent of G.D.P. "This is all part of a strategy on the part of Europe to change the fiscal mentality of these countries," Mr. Heinen said.
In an alarming number of countries, nominal GDP is shrinking, yet some governments, notably Taiwan's, are reluctant to pursue aggressive monetary or fiscal easing.Japanese punishment, Chinese tortureAn enfeebled banking system that cramps growth, shrinking nominal GDP, hefty corporate debts and massive excess capacity.
"I am pro-life, from conception to natural death," said Glasscock, who also cited the "the fiscal cost" of capital punishment.
Her comments echoed those of ECB president Mario Draghi, who last month warned that without moves to strengthen the fiscal pact and impose punishments on rule-breaking countries, the eurozone project could flounder.
Olli Rehn, EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner, said: "Today's decision has to be regarded as an incentive to correct a deviation (from fiscal prudence) and not as a punishment".
There will be more stringent fiscal rules, with tougher and earlier punishments for those who flout them.
Under the euro zone's "fiscal compact", countries that break the deficit rules will face punishment, unless a qualified majority of other member countries votes to let them off.
The endless punishment model that has led to the current crisis has created a fiscal and ethical dilemma.
But despite its plan to run a deficit of 4.1% this year, France's punishment was altogether milder, amounting to stern words from the European Commission (which monitors the EU's fiscal rules) and an instruction to tighten the fiscal screws a little more.The proposal for tolerance sparked a robust discussion among ministers, as the tortured language of their joint statement on France made clear.
