It might help, but no-one knows the future course of house price inflation and there is no guarantee that politicians will not tax housing profits in future.
Suppose the doctor suggested a treatment that she guessed might help but had no evidence to prove that it would.
Have a bath, love, it might help you relax … no, that's not helping.
At best, that might help the company you no longer work for resolve a problem.
Mergers like that proposed by Sanofi might help, but they are no panacea.
An accompanying effort to educate the men who pay for sex, suggest campaigners, might help curb demand.No amount of moralising, however, will have much effect unless a broader problem feeding the supply of women is confronted: the feminisation of poverty in Eastern Europe.
The Volcker rule, debt relief for working Americans, a tax on the wealthy — those might help, but they represent no more than a few drops in the bucket of regulations that distribute and redistribute wealth and resources in this country every minute of every day.
Potentially, these differential effects could effectively cancel each other out in statistical analyses and might help to explain why no overall association was found.
However, wrapping such measures in green paper and presenting them as anti-global-warming strategies might help their acceptance.Obvious no-regrets measures to take include cutting those subsidies that currently distort the choice of energy in favour of carbon-rich fossil fuels.
