The government chose to bail out the banking industry rather than penalizing its bondholders.
The perversity of a payment system that actually rewards incompetence rather than penalizing it seems self-evident.
In using public money to rescue private institutions, these critics say, policy makers effectively rewarded banks that traded with companies that were in trouble, rather than penalizing them, and that encouraged risky behavior.
Mr. Brown has questioned why the New York Fed, despite knowing that some banks were reporting false rates, pushed for broad reforms of the rate-setting process rather than penalizing the illegal behavior.
"Essentially what they're doing is giving people an added bonus rather than penalizing the public," she said, comparing The Bee's two levels of news access to the difference between first class and coach seats on airplanes.
"As teachers, if we can offer these students the inner resources that they are lacking rather than penalizing them over and over, they have a much greater chance of thriving". And, ultimately, teachers save time, because they don't have to continually work to bring distracted, disruptive kids back into the learning fold.
Comcast has set out to restrict usage to the very top percentile of users, rather than penalizing all users of a particular protocol.
Rather than penalizing patients for the use of innovative medicines through higher co-pays, health care systems should adopt outcome-based approaches that maintain the incentive to invest in developing high-value innovative medicines.
Unlike Google's previous Penguin and Panda updates though, their mobile algorithm change is focussed on improving the web rather than penalizing bad practice so should be embraced by businesses, according to one of the organizers of UnGagged London Matthew Tulett.
A better solution to Connecticut's fiscal woes is for state leaders to determine the best tax structure that will encourage employment growth and attract new businesses, rather than penalizing the state's most productive industries.
