41. The farmers claim that corporate sweetener users want to cut sugar subsidies to boost profits at the expense of consumers and farmers. 42. The House Medicare bill that passed last month will cut federal subsidies for many if not most doctors in training who are international medical graduates. 43. The government also announced it would cut government subsidies to religious and educational institutions whose leaders preach racism and violence. 44. The measures, which include raising rates on cooking gas and electricity and cutting education subsidies, have been widely rejected by the Ecuadorean public. 45. These advocates argue that families would be reluctant to adopt these children not knowing from year to year whether the subsidy would be cut. 46. To ease those financial strains, the government could have chosen to cut subsidies or to cut imports. 47. WTO members also want to see how much China will cut subsidies to state industries and open up services including banking and insurance. 48. Party leaders agree that converting to private agriculture, cutting subsidies to state companies, letting the market set most prices and wooing foreign capital were all necessary moves. 49. A huge shortfall in tax collection due to industrial slowdown and the inability of the government to cut subsidies were pushing up the fiscal deficit, the Survey said. 50. Also, the ministers cut subsidies for less intensive cattle breeding than had been proposed by the commission. |