Commercial advertising tends to be created by companies to encourage consumption of their products or services.

"We're going to have to find a lower price to encourage consumption."

Yet our Federal tax code encourages consumption rather than saving.

The child credit would encourage consumption over saving, the opposite of what the economy needs.

He thinks the Republican plan to cut taxes would only encourage consumption.

Clinton Administration officials say that their more modest tax cut proposal gets around the problem of encouraging too much consumption.

An increased cost of fuel would also encourage less consumption.

But if the price stays down, he said, "it encourages consumption again, which we certainly don't want to do."

Targeting young people to encourage consumption will be important for success.

Should we not encourage local production and consumption instead?