Compared with the pain of raising more visible taxes, the abolition of contracting out could prove seductive for a chancellor in a fiscal fix.
Since the rebates were set by government actuaries to meet the pension liability that would now shift back to the state, nothing has changed.In the short-term, however, the abolition of contracting out would help Mr Brown meet his fiscal rules.
Back then, he called for the flat-out abolition of traditional departments, to be replaced by temporary, "problem-centered" programs focusing on issues like Mind, Space, Time, Life and Water.
It found 18% approve of the abolition of the two-out-of-three rule, 22% don't know, and the majority of those that disapproved of the policy did so strongly.
Ultimately, abolition might turn out to be a rallying cry for something a good deal less drastic — cuts in county spending — a theory Mr. Feiner concedes.
One of the protectionist arguments used last year for prolonging quotas was that their abolition would wipe out export-based industries in poor countries that allegedly relied on quota protection from Chinese competition.Spinning a yarnBangladesh was an often-cited example.
The independent senator Glenn Lazarus said he was "disgusted" by the prospect of dragging out the abolition of the tribunal over months.
But the abolition of bilingual education has not worked out in quite the way anybody expected.Before 1998 some 400,000 Californian children were shunted into classes where they heard as little as 30 minutes of English each day.
And I assume the outright abolition of the USPS is out of the question politically.
QUESTION FROM READER: If the filibuster has "no pluses whatsoever," then why is "outright abolition" of it "almost certainly out of reach"?
