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The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.
We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
You can't care what anybody else thinks - even though your life is out there maybe for a bit of public consumption.
History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular.
China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Use of energy-efficient LEDs, pumps, fans, and air-conditioners will save power consumption and reduces the peak load.
Taxes do have a clear record of curbing the consumption of, and thus the public-health impact of, tobacco and alcohol.
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.
Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.
Investing in rail is an easy way to reduce congestion, cost, and energy consumption and make our producers more competitive.
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.
#GivingTuesday is the perfect cyber-counterbalance to Black Friday and emphasizes giving back in this era of mass consumption.
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.
In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.
Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.
The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.
Phones and tablet PCs are primarily consumption devices and not typically used for creation of content. It's here that we need PCs.
I'm not opposed to the consumption of alcohol. I'm opposed to my kids watching TV at seven o'clock and being told to bet and drink.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.
Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.
Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Hispanics' welfare consumption - and their affinity for the Democratic message - will decline over time as they climb the economic ladder.
In the past 30 years, I have been trying to make education more relevant as our old education system valorises production and consumption.
People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.
When you affect consumption, production falls, and when production falls, employment falls and when unemployment rises, it affects poverty.