After resisting it for four years, Scottish Labour is also preparing to support the policy if Alex Salmond's government presses on with plans for a £130m "health levy" on supermarkets to claw back the £125m increase in their revenues from a 50p minimum price.
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Minimum alcohol price in Scotland to be set at 50p a unit | Society | The Guardian - 4 views
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first IA
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said in January that inflation and a drop in alcohol misuse meant only a 50p cost would have a significant impact now.
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US subsidy decision welcomed | Business | The Guardian - 1 views
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with no cotton subsidy from the government, what effect will that have on the market?
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this is whats happening now. with the subsidy, it means that the US cotton market is going well because they can sell more with the subsidy from the government
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what effect the US having no subsidy on the cotton will have for the 3rd world cotton that is being sold as a second to the US cotton
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Banks received 'implicit' taxpayer subsidy of up to £220bn, Bank of England s... - 0 views
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One of the major benefits to banks was lower borrowing costs, because the paper argues that witho
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lower interest rates
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analyzing the GDP and discussing the pros/cons of increasing the subsidy.
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he resulting cost to society of financial crises, not least the reduction in GDP, could far exceed the original implicit subsidy
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