What the criminal deserves to suffer is the loss of her unfair advantage, and she deserves that because it is unfair that she should get away with taking the benefits of the law without accepting the burdens on which those benefits depend; it is the state's job to inflict this suffering on her, because it is the author or guarantor of the criminal law.
Such plants in California now pay fines when they operate, adding to the financial burden on utilities, which cannot pass the higher production costs on to consumers.
The higher premiums will impose "an additional and significant burden" on states, which help pay Medicaid costs, along with the federal government.
It is also partly down to a heavier regulatory burden on banks, which has caused the ranks of legal and compliance officers to swell.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a big accounting firm, has calculated the "total tax burden" on companies, which includes the other taxes they must pay, such as social-security contributions.
Republican senators argue that it imposes too great a regulatory burden on industry, which is already obliged to disclose when it is subject to a cyber-attack.
But not if this is to the detriment of nature conservation either directly or indirectly through being a burden on us (which means we can't take on other nature conservation projects).
Announced on Thursday, the agreement between the two banks removes a major financial burden on Morgan Stanley, which at the same time reported that first-quarter profit declined 48 percent from the period in the previous year.
This is a heavy burden on Petrobras, which needs sophisticated kit to drill miles beneath the ocean floor, and a big reason why the company's share price has languished in recent years.
At the end of the year UBS paid $1.5 billion to regulators.Britain's coalition government skidded in the polls, especially after it presented a budget that cut the top rate of income tax while increasing the tax burden on pensioners, which was soon dubbed a "granny tax".
