Unless society benefits inordinately from such spending, there is no case for special treatment.
So while some companies like Stanley Works backtrack on plans to shift their addresses, others are hiring lobbyists to plead their case for special treatment.
Ahead of the World Health Assembly which opens in Geneva on Monday, they are putting the case for special measures in a paper in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.
Although the designers of catalog machines have access to specific standards to perform a priori risk analyses, this is not the case for special machine designers.
"As an honorably discharged veteran of the U.S. Army," Mr. Hicks wrote at the end of a letter making his case for special treatment for his Caribbean immigrants, "my sense of patriotism longs for satisfaction".
I've had several people ask for a followup on my piece about David Frum and capital gains taxes — namely, what is the case for special treatment, and the case against?
The fact this tournament in Turkey is taking place, plus two of Reed's counting competitions were the Olympics and Ryder Cup, would hardly seem to boost his case for special treatment.
The deputy first minister and Sinn Féin leader told the Guardian that leaders in Belfast and Dublin needed to work together to make the case for special rules to apply to Northern Ireland.
And insecurity may not really be the best spur to good work.There is a case for special rules for small employers, for flexible working hours, and for lowering the cost of lay-offs.
