"There is an outright benefit to anyone who is in this program, whether it is in television or in print," Ms. Leo said.
Although the empirical research is less than unanimous in its evaluation of individual effects of actually participating in these activities, there is now overwhelming evidence indicating that activation reduces moral hazard problems, and that threats of activation have similar effects as threats of outright benefit termination.
A repeal outright would benefit a tiny handful of taxpayers who already reap most of the benefits of the society they live in.
As for Social Security, Simpson-Bowles would reduce the program's costs long-term by raising the retirement age in step with increases in longevity, switching to a stingier formula to calculate benefits, and cutting benefits outright for higher-income earners.
The one-off restriction would not amount to an outright ban on benefits either but would be graduated.
Rather than abolishing these tax benefits outright, I would impose reasonable restrictions, like limiting mortgage exemptions to a single home of moderate size, tightening the definition of charitable organizations, and providing some tax relief for interest and dividends only when accrued in retirement savings accounts of reasonable size.
Although I've maintained a private individual health insurance policy with Blue Cross of California for thirty (30) years, they have, at every turn of my ordeal, tried to waffle, obfuscate, or outright deny me benefits for medical care.
And on paper, the scales were heavily tipped in our favor since, unlike the Marlins, we not only won our division outright but had the benefit of experienced players.
He wanted an outright ban but instead benefits will be index-linked to where the child is based.
They said, 'What about donating it as a park?' " Tax benefits for outright gifts like this are significant, according to Paul Gallay, executive director of the Westchester Land Trust in Bedford Hills.
A variety of studies have made a case for unstructured mental downtime, and some tout the benefits of outright boredom, which is why it seemed oddly poignant that the image of that phone-fixated sailor began circulating around the same time as the obituaries for the esteemed physicist Charles Townes, who died Jan . 27 six months shy of his 100th birthday.
