Rick Perry said the president's plan "penalizes investment when it is needed most".
The act also passes judgment on the affordability of employer plans and penalizes employers who offer "unaffordable" plans and then have employees who receive the subsidies.
Mr. Schneiderman set the potential penalty in motion on Friday when he sent a letter to the settlement monitoring committee, outlining his plans to penalize the banks.
This month, Viviane Reding, the European justice commissioner, had to drop plans to penalize companies that did not have at least 40 percent of their board seats filled by women.
Experience shows that free trade rewards abusive labor practices, child exploitation, even slavery, while penalizing fair wages, health plans and unions.
Citing "unsafe and unsound" foreclosure practices, the Federal Reserve said recently that it plans to penalize eight financial firms — HSBC's United States bank division, SunTrust Bank, MetLife, U.S. Bancorp, PNC Financial Services, EverBank, OneWest and Goldman Sachs.
As an example of these provisions, I explained last week how, even without the employer penalties, the premium assistance plan sharply penalizes full-time employment in favor of part-time employment.
Using D.N.R. orders in triage also risks penalizing individuals who plan for scenarios that may not occur.
Sellers should also make sure that any promised funds are placed in escrow until conversion takes place and that they are not penalized if the plan is delayed, unless by prior agreement.
In the ABC debate in January, he upbraided Mrs. Clinton by suggesting that a typical New Hampshire "family of two professors" with a joint income "in the $200,000 category" would be unjustly penalized by her plan to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
Others might find they were in excess and be penalized". Under the plan adopted by the council last week, customers who do not reduce their consumption by the mandatory rate will pay double the usual rate for the extra water.
