But its most useful contribution would come as a one-time subsidy for the rapid automation of the economy.
He didn't mention that the D.H.S.'s stated determination to keep applicants out of city shelters whenever possible would have sent this hypothetical traveller back to her airplane forthwith, perhaps with a one-time subsidy for jet fuel.
For Mobile Rural Early Childhood Education-Supporting Sites Project, there is a one-time subsidy of 15,000RMB for every newly established education-supporting site.
In Building Kindergartens Affiliated to Local Rural Primary Schools Project, the central government provides a one-time subsidy of 50,000RMB for every class of kindergarten.
Even in flush times, subsidies for athletics are a questionable expenditure, and in this era of budget cutting, they should be the first to go.
John Tsang, the financial secretary of Hong Kong, the semiautonomous Chinese territory, presented on Wednesday a budget that calls for a long list of one-time subsidies, particularly for the poor and aging.
Over time, the subsidies for Internet will increase and those for phone will dissipate, with the knowledge that people can make online calls.
At the same time, certain subsidies for the energy sector will be abolished and a special environmental surcharge will be imposed on airline passengers.
At the time, the average federal subsidy for each apartment was $5,000 a year, with tenants paying an average of $2,088 a year in rent.
For the purposes of understanding the state of the labor market, it doesn't really matter whether individuals would be paying a tax for having a full-time job or receiving a subsidy for not having a full-time job.
Comparable to Social Security and Medicare, it could provide as much as $20,000 for each child at birth, to grow over time into "a near-complete subsidy for their higher education," he writes.
