Sentences with phrase «balance budget spending»

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Kentucky senator Rand Paul has said he'd seek a balanced budget amendment, and that he'd also shrink spending, limiting it to only what comes in via tax revenue.

Simply put, balancing the budget through spending cuts alone will not work.

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Unlike the years before the crisis, the global consensus now is that governments should be agnostic when it comes to fiscal policy; too much debt is problematic (Greece, Spain, etc.), but it can take more than a balanced budget to inspire business confidence and get executives to spend.

Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

That means Americans are nowhere near ready to resume spending — which is precisely what they must do before Washington can return to balanced budgets.

Republican Presidents, including Trump, have promised to balance future budgets with gigantic reductions in discretionary spending, a category that includes both outlays for defense, and all other areas that are voted each year (as opposed to entitlements that provide benefits guided by a fixed formula).

The parliamentary budget office's report says the slippage in spending is likely to affect the budgetary balance sheet by reducing planned deficits in one year at the expense of deeper spending in future years.

Ronald Reagan spent much of 1981 and 1982 claiming that economic growth would balance the budget.

Their plan to balance the budget involved 18 billion dollars in spending cuts, along with $ 16 billion in additional revenue gained from economic growth.

Malaysia's budget due at 4 p.m. local time (0800 GMT) may be the toughest yet for embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak as he struggles to balance declining oil revenues, spending priorities and a growing political scandal.

Most economists expect the next president will be forced to both cut spending and raise taxes to balance America's budget.

The recommendation that Ottawa should delay its efforts to balance the budget and spend on infrastructure to create jobs has been advocated by left - wing economists, but Scarth's report is not so easily pigeon - holed.

«Republican governors are cutting taxes, slashing spending, balancing budgets and transforming their states into engines of economic growth,» the group crowed.

Well then, Stephen Harper will need to cut billions from spending to meet the 2015 deadline for budget balance that Flaherty reaffirmed today.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

While the government continues to invest in jobs and priority services, it will make responsible spending decisions to support balancing the budget.

Balancing the budget in every year would mean that governments would be forced to increase taxes and cut spending in downturns, and to do the opposite when the economy is growing quickly.

It's a fairly modest spending plan of lowered public school fees, hospital projects and a slow, optimistic climb to balanced budget early next decade.

Financial experts say the central bank's intervention seems to have catalyzed a virtuous circle: As new governments come in and promise to deliver spending cuts, tax increases and balanced budgets, once gun - shy banks have an added incentive to tap new financing from the central bank and jump back into bond markets that they were running from just a few months ago.

That downturn is pushing the federal budget towards deficit, but having rejected deficits outright, the Harper government will have to cut spending to balance its budget, thereby making economic problems worse.

Lesson # 4: «What is clear and critical for understanding the current situation is that a balanced budget was (NOT) achieved almost entirely through reductions in spending» (NOT) added by authors.

But Kathleen Wynne's spending binge next week will press the deficit back up to $ 8 billion dollars from the previous balanced budget — Notley, governing a province three times less populous, has had to (gently) scrape its way to an $ 8.8 - billion shortfall.

But Jim Prentice got that backwards, and this is how we got the Alberta NDP, as it appears today: afraid to trim spending, unlikely to raise taxes further, and hoping that a gradually recovering economy can balance the budget eight years from now.

The Conservative government is ideologically committed to lower taxes, less spending, balanced budgets, and smaller government.

Panel 3 provides an estimate of the net impact of the proposed spending and revenue increases on any future budget balance.

Fifth, to meet the commitment to balance the budget over the medium term, the Government implemented various spending restraint measures.

As a result, the impact of capital spending on the budgetary balance is spread out over its economic life, thereby minimizing its impact on the budget balance.

The Minister of Finance has indicated that additional spending cuts could be forthcoming in order to achieve a balanced budget in 2015 - 16.

They argue that, since 2009, the federal government's plans to balance the budget have been based on «risky projections, optimistic forecasts of revenue growth and unrealistic plans for spending restraint», which have resulted in increases in the projected deficit with each successive budget, and the pushing out of the date that the deficit would be eliminated.

It is worth noting, however, that we believe it is incumbent on the government to keep spending within declared levels, and to appropriately apply any unexpected gains (i.e. from a stronger than forecast GDP growth, higher energy prices, etc.) to the deficit and thus hasten the return to a balanced budget.

I think we will get some version of the so - called penny plan to reduce spending as well (penny plan = hold flat nominal discretionary spending, or reduce it or 1 % each year until the budget is balanced).

The reality is that you will not balance the budget in 2019 - 20 without cutting spending and / or raising taxes.

I track expenses, balance my checkbook, stick to a budget, and am not extravagant with my spending.

On Wednesday, a report published by Quebec's interim auditor general said the PQ's goal of achieving a balanced budget by 2015 - 16 was «to say the least, ambitious,» particularly if it rules out tax hikes and caps government - spending increases at two per cent over the next two years.

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

Gramm - Rudman - Hollings law: A law enacted in 1985 requiring that budget deficits be brought down to specified amounts and the budget be balanced by 1991; failure to meet those goals would trigger automatic spending cuts.

In my recent National Post column, I make reference to some back - of - envelope calculations to the effect that replacing the fiscal anchor of balanced budgets to one of a fixed debt - GDP ratio allows the federal government to increase spending by 1.2 percentage points of GDP, or by about $ 25 billion.

Budget balance has been achieved despite a slowing economy and new tax cuts mainly by doing almost nothing new on the spending side for the coming fiscal year of 2015 - 16.

President Donald Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget plan Monday that envisions steep cuts to America's social safety net but mounting spending on the military, formally retreating from last year's promises to balance the federal budget.

With Collective Health, you and your team will be able to not only adapt to trends driving your healthcare spend, but take a more proactive approach to both help your people get the support they need, and balance the budget.

To balance the budget in that year, assuming interest costs of $ 42 billion, will mean holding program spending to $ 234 billion.

The government's 2015 election platform originally proposed three years of deficit spending followed by a balanced budget in 2019 - 20.

The new government wants the troika to lower this requirement of surplus to a balanced budget, freeing up cash for more government spending.

If you are spending 60 % of your monthly take - home pay on your mortgage payment alone, balancing your budget will be challenging so long as you remain in your home or don't find additional income.

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While the government is still forecasting a balanced budget, all the elasticity (read: available money) in the current fiscal has now been used up with the new taxation and spending measures announced today.

That's how much they need the price to be to balance their budget... so they need to cut back spending,» said Lee.

While Budget 2018 manages to shrink the projected deficit to $ 18.1 billion from the Fall 2017 Update's projected $ 18.6 billion, government has promised $ 21.5 billion in new spending yet does not set out a path to return to balanced budgets.