It punishes actions, and those punishments ought to be time-limited, not eternal.(Photo credit: AFP).
Even his critics know that in today's world the cost of borrowing punishes the feckless.
The Mayor's decision to raise bus fares while scrapping the £25 congestion charge for the most polluting vehicles punishes the poor at the expense of the better off.
At least half its outgoing 71 deputies will lose their seats as the public punishes the party at the polls.
One punishes dangerous and irresponsible behaviour.
"It punishes you," he says.
Another common criticism was that APD unfairly punishes Caribbean travellers because of the rudimentary way it is calculated.
It is a "shitty time to be a liberal", he tells colleagues.Actually, Britain is a tough place to be a liberal at any time, with a winner-takes-all voting system that punishes leaders like Mr Clegg, a minority within a minority party.
At least, it looked like that from the hall.Grave of tone and dressed for a funeral (charcoal suit, slate-grey tie), Mr Miliband spent almost an hour telling British voters that what they want is a new, more moral economy one that rewards "producers" and workers, but punishes "predators" and cheats of all kinds, from bosses wrongly rewarded for failure to scroungers fiddling their welfare claims.
It also punishes the shareholders at the time of the settlement and discourages stockmarket listings.Lawyers for the plaintiffs, supported by the Department of Justice, assert that the threat of fraud-on-the-market lawsuits keeps managers honest.
Many Republicans are only happy with less government when it punishes the other side.
