"Lying" is a word in ENGLISH
of Lie
of Lie
of Lie, to tell a falsehood.
of Lie, to be supported horizontally.
Think about ethanol again. The benefits of that $7 billion tax subsidy are bestowed on a small group of farmers, making it quite lucrative for each one of them. Meanwhile, the costs are spread over the remaining 98 percent of us, putting ethanol somewhere below good oral hygiene on our list of everyday concerns. The opposite would be true with my plan to have left-handed voters pay subsidies to right-handed voters. There are roughly nine right-handed Americans for every lefty, so if every right-handed voter were to get some government benefit worth $100, then every left-handed voter would have to pay $900 to finance it. The lefties would be hopping mad about their $900 tax bills, probably to the point that it became their preeminent political concern, while the righties would be only modestly excited about their $100 subsidy. An adept politician would probably improve her career prospects by voting with the lefties.Here is a curious finding that makes more sense in light of what we‘ve just discussed. In countries where farmers make up a small fraction of the population, such as America and Europe, the government provides large subsidies for agriculture. But in countries where the farming population is relatively large, such as China and India, the subsidies go the other way. Farmers are forced to sell their crops at below-market prices so that urban dwellers can get basic food items cheaply. In the one case, farmers get political favors; in the other, they must pay for them. What makes these examples logically consistent is that in both cases the large group subsidizes the smaller group.In politics, the tail can wag the dog. This can have profound effects on the economy.
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adj. /NA-/ 1. wild, savage, untamed, undomesticated. Naatap daydiay pusam. That cat of yours is wild. 2. shy, suspicious, aloof. …
Read the complete definitionbákak - A lie, a story, an untruth, a fib, prevarication; to lie, tell stories or untruths, prevaricate. Ginbákak lang …
Read the complete definitionbakak a be a lie, false. Bakak kaáyu nang íyang diklarasiyun, His allegation is a big lie. v [A; c] …
Read the complete definitionbakákon - A Liar, fibber, story-teller; lying, telling stories or untruths, untruthful, unreliable. Bakákon siá nga táo. He is a …
Read the complete definitionbalíbad - (H) Pretext, explanation, excuse, pretence, false plea, subterfuge, often just a story got up for the occasion; to …
Read the complete definitionTo tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.
Read the complete definitionbutbut n lie, boast of s.t. untrue (coarse). pula a glaring lie (so called from the homonymy with butbut). Miuk-uk …
Read the complete definitionbutíg - A lie, falsehood, untruth, deception, invention, fabrication, perversion of the truth, prevarication, fib; to lie, tell lies, misstate, …
Read the complete definitiondala v {1} [A; a2] take, bring, carry. Magdala ba kug rigálu ngadtu? Shall I bring presents there? Bug-at na …
Read the complete definitiondánò - See padánò—to tell stories, lies, etc.
Read the complete definitionTo tell lies; to violate the truth.
Read the complete definitiongwatsi n {1} petty lie. Nabuku ang íyang gwatsi kay dihay nakakità, He was exposed because there was a witness. …
Read the complete definitionhúlab v [AN2; b6] boast by telling a lie. Gihuwában mi níyang dakù siyag swildu, He boasted that he had …
Read the complete definitionkabikáhan - Tribe, clan, family relations, race, progenitors and progeny. kabilár, (Sp. cavilar) To cavil, find fault with; to cheat, …
Read the complete definitionkágà a {1} talking excessively of foolish things. {2} lying, esp. boastfully. v {1} [A23N] talk foolishness excessively. {2} [AN; …
Read the complete definitionkampanya n campaign. v [ANC12; c] campaign, talk in cam-paigning. Nangampanya siyag pára itúkud ug iskuyláhan, He is campaigning for …
Read the complete definitionkópal - Lies, tales, inventions, stories, fibs, falsehoods, prevarications, fabrications, untruths, fiction; to tell lies, make up stories, utter untruths. …
Read the complete definitionkopálon - Lying, telling stories, false, mendacious, deceptive, misrepresenting, exaggerating much. (cf. butigón, bakákon).
Read the complete definitionlagumlum (from lumlum) v {1} [A13; b(1)] for s.t. to lie dor-mant and hidden beneath or inside s.t. Naglagumlum sa …
Read the complete definitionlansis v [AN2; b] tell a lie about what one is doing when one is actually doing s.t. else, make …
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