Forced to buy individual insurance, they were expected to subsidize high-risk employees rejected for small-business coverage.
Under last summer's legislation, a new nuclear-power tax was expected to subsidize large offshore wind farms.
Like federal and state governments, which are expected to subsidize the wages of full-time fast food workers, adjuncts – who frequently subsidize their earnings with other jobs – are voluntarily underwriting the institutions they work for.
Margaret Paglia Bernardsville Privatize School Football for Taxpayers' Sake To the Editor: Your Sept. 2 editorial "Football Trumps All" asked, "Amid a near taxpayer revolt," should taxpayers continue to be expected to subsidize any football programs in our state?" No.
The employes of the subway system cannot be expected to subsidize the fare through substandard wages, but there is something drastically wrong with a concept of bargaining in the civil service that puts all its accent on protecting the workers and none on protecting the riders.
In either case, Americans shouldn't be expected to subsidize Germany's defense.
But let's look at the facts: Federal workers will be expected to subsidize this deal with an increase in their out-of-pocket pension costs.
While marveling at the terrific age-appropriate selection of summer reading books required by schools in my community, two thoughts come to mind (besides the fact that parents, regardless of income, are expected to subsidize the assignment).
But what makes it especially complicated is the fact that, in a certain sense, healthier individuals are expected to subsidize the cost of caring for sicker individuals, which means the success of the entire program rests on the ability to make enrollment as attractive as possible to them.
That payment by insurance companies is expected to help subsidize the new insurance program after a first-year startup using new federal fiscal relief money.
