net

(noun)

The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.

Examples of net in the following topics:

  • Deficit Spending, the Public Debt, and Policy Making

    • Government deficit, on the other hand, refers to a situation when the government's expenses, including its purchases of goods and services, its transfers (grants) to individuals and corporations, and its net interest payments, exceed its tax revenues.
    • Otherwise the debt issuance can increase the level of (i) public debt, (ii) private sector net worth, (iii) debt service (interest payments) and (iv) interest rates.
    • In the United States, taxes are imposed on net income of individuals and corporations by the federal, most state, and some local governments.
    • Economic growth offers the "win-win" scenario of higher employment, which increases tax revenue while reducing safety net expenditures for such things as unemployment compensation and food stamps.
  • Tax Loopholes and Lowered Taxes

    • An IRS report indicates that, in 2009, 1,470 individuals earning more than $1,000,000 annually faced a net tax liability of zero or less.
    • Also, in 1998 alone, a total of 94 corporations faced a net liability of less than half the full 35% corporate tax rate and the corporations Lyondell Chemical, Texaco, Chevron, CSX, Tosco, PepsiCo, Owens & Minor, Pfizer, JP Morgan Saks, Goodyear, Ryder, Enron, Colgate-Palmolive, Worldcom, Eaton, Weyerhaeuser, General Motors, El Paso Energy, Westpoint Stevens, MedPartners, Phillips Petroleum, McKesson, and Northrup Grumman all had net negative tax liabilities.
  • Uniting Competing Factions Within the Party

    • The Democratic Party is most associated with a liberal attitude toward politics that emphasizes a more active government role in regulating the economy, ensuring equality, and providing a social safety net.
  • The Budgeting Process

    • In the short-run, tax revenues have declined significantly due to a severe recession and tax policy choices, while expenditures have expanded for wars, unemployment insurance and other safety net spending.
    • Mandatory spending accounted for 57.4% of total federal outlays in FY2012, with net interest payments accounting for an additional 6.3%.
  • Health Care Policy

    • The law also provides a "Health Safety Net Fund" to pay for necessary treatment for those who cannot find affordable health insurance or for those who are not eligible.
    • In July 2009, Connecticut similarly passed a law called SustiNet, with the goal of achieving health-care coverage for 98 percent of its residents by 2014.
  • Associations

    • Absolute satisfaction after all will be a composite representing the net effects of actions by the many different persons with whom one is associated, by the person himself, and of events in the natural environment.
  • Voluntary, Involuntary, and Trust Associations

    • (Since sanctions reduce another person's net satisfaction below what it would be if the actor did nothing at all.
  • Allocating Scarce Natural Resources

    • Government-as-trustee II, acting for the public, could lease selected portions of these resources to the highest bidder, and the net receipts disbursed in equal amounts to all members of the public in the form of a social dividend.
  • The New Deal

    • There was no national safety net, no public unemployment insurance, and no Social Security.
  • The Federal Tax System

    • Taxes are imposed on net income of individuals and corporations by the federal, most state, and some local governments.
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