To encourage the trimming of mortgage-interest deductions it may be easier politically to enact loan-to-asset caps on tax relief and to describe such policy as being "macroprudential".
As the seriousness of Bynes' situation became more prominent, politically correct outlets enacted restraint by shifting their adjective of choice from "crazy" to "troubled," and yet they continued to harvest clicks from Amanda's self-posted topless photos and nonsensical tweets, creating slideshows of her Twitpics, and noting they "hope she gets better soon".
With the wave of a blog post, the President of the United States suspends the due process checks and balances prescribed by the Constitution, refusing to enforce laws he finds politically inconvenient, while enacting other laws by executive decree to energize his political base.
In the United States, similar, if slower-acting, reductions could prove politically difficult to enact in Congress and would do little to address the bigger, long-term fiscal problems, stemming from Medicare and Social Security.
It may be politically impossible to enact or enforce laws banning circumcision on religious grounds but let us not pretend that barbaric practices like this are acceptable just because they are well-established.
In fact, some lawmakers worry that it will be far easier and politically appealing to enact a new drug benefit than to restructure Medicare, and thus the effort to make Medicare more efficient and financially solvent before the baby boomers retire will be left to languish.
It also assumes that there will be no long-running relief from the alternative minimum tax — which would be ruinous for the middle class — and that there will be deep cuts in Medicare and other health care spending that have proved to be politically impossible to enact.
President Bush signed into law today an extension of unemployment benefits for about 2.5 million Americans just hours after the bill cleared the House, making the politically popular legislation the first enacted by the new Republican-controlled Congress.
Of those, 15 have enacted a political mandate in addition to or instead of a corresponding law, strengthening the implementation of risk analysis politically (Bara 2011).
Scots have traditionally been to the left of England politically, and the Scottish Parliament has enacted a series of measures that would be unheard of in the Westminster Parliament, even under a Labour government.
