Because the tax would be calculated based on a firm's holdings, a small local bank or a larger bank with billions of dollars in safe consumer deposits might pay nothing.
In this way, the so-called free trade agenda allows companies to avoid an entire range of domestic laws and regulations--affecting clean air and water, the minimum wage, the abolition of child labor, the freedom to form unions and bargain collectively, a safe and healthy workplace, safe consumer products and safe food.
"LAX," he said today, "can be both safe, consumer- and community-friendly, and a key component of our regional economy".
If you read the proposal Kleiman's team submitted to Washington State, you may be a little boggled by the complexities of turning an illicit herb into a regulated, safe, consumer-friendly business.
For example, Dr. Nestle explains, while bioengineered food is proclaimed to be safe, consumers may feel that not enough testing has been done.
Despite the sturdy steel and aluminum frame that Ford says makes the car safe, consumers in the pilot program found no breaks on insurance.
"Even though as a scientist I will sit here and tell you these things are perfectly safe," consumers are worried about reports that call her conclusions into question, Ms. Nettesheim said.
Basically, buying a Vibrating Ring from Trojan is a safe, consumer-friendly way to introduce extra pleasure into your leisure-time activities in ways only achievable through battery-operated devices.
When it appeared that money in banks and money market funds was no longer safe, consumers decided they would rather have money under mattresses instead of in bank accounts.
Both are often viewed as good-guy alternatives to Wall Street banks, eschewing the too-big-to-fail crowd's phantom, subprime profits in favor of safe, consumer-friendly products.
Similarly, four alcoholism profiles were constructed following a well-established typology based on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C) questionnaire [ 19, 20]: nondrinkers, safe consumers, occasionally risky consumers, and high-risk consumers.
