Most of the Republicans' proposals aim to improve incentives for working and saving.
With our own national health program we could improve incentives that would reinforce our rapidly deteriorating primary care infrastructure.
They also pointed to a pledge to "simplify the benefit system in order to improve incentives to work".
Well-designed contracts can also improve incentives by giving the construction firm a long-run interest in the project.
During his career as a lobbyist for the US firm, Smith had called on ministers to improve incentives for the pharmaceutical industry.
Sarkozy would certainly try to liberalise France's labour market, soften the excesses of the 35-hour working week, and improve incentives for businesses.
We are going to introduce a new tax reform in the direction of even higher taxation on energy and the revenue generated on that will be used to cut taxes on personal income — so we will improve incentives to work and improve incentives to save energy and develop renewable energy".
To its credit, the new health care bill does improve incentives for general practitioners, but still, supply probably will not keep up with the crush of demand.
By 2003, the rationale had changed again: the administration argued that reducing taxes on dividend income, the core of its plan, would improve incentives and hence long-run growth -- that is, it had turned to a supply-side argument.
And I was subsequently a co-author, with the tax expert Robert Carroll, of a market-based proposal that goes even further with tax code changes to both expand insurance coverage and improve incentives within the health care sector.
