Sentences with phrase «balanced budget policy»

Adopt a structurally balanced budget policy which ensures that one - time funds are used for one - time expenses and ongoing expenses are paid for by ongoing funds.

Not exact matches

Harper wants the debate about economic policy to revolve around balanced budgets.

They elevate the importance of balanced budgets by trying so hard to convince voters that they too would run tight fiscal policy.

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.

OTTAWA — Mandatory balanced - budget legislation, interprovincial booze runs, public sector bashing and lifetime prison terms are among a grab bag of populist Conservative promises in a mid-mandate policy makeover.

Though immigration may strain some local budgets in the short term, costs and benefits tend to balance out in the end, said Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

The boom years for employment and balanced federal budgets in the 1990s had everything to do with the emergence of the Internet rather than with any enlightened economic policies.

Before incorrectly blaming the Fed and the ECB for their allegedly ineffective monetary policies, investment strategists would do well to reflect on the depressive impact of an unreasonable haste to balance budgets, and on political leaders» inability to strengthen the financial systems (in the U.S. and in Europe) and to negotiate a better balanced world economy.

The federal NDP adopted its balanced - budget policy during the same era of budget surpluses.

Jack Layton unveiled the NDP's policy platform today. Among other things, it promises to eliminate the deficit (i.e. balance the federal budget) within four years. I'm not sure it should.

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Like it or not, Finance Minister Joe Oliver's April budget has now become the fiscal «benchmark» against which their policy platforms will be judged in terms of their commitments to maintain a balanced budget.

Having a balanced budget is not that important is not the be all and end all of fiscal policy.

The budget projections underlying these «alternative» budgets are out - of - date, with the result that their policy prescriptions will not achieve a balanced budget by the dates specified.

For state and local governments, the statutory requirements for balanced budgets meant that fiscal policies turned restrictive relatively quickly once budget surpluses and rainy day funds were exhausted, and this was only temporarily mitigated by federal transfers to the states as part of the initial fiscal stimulus program.

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.

«Monetary policy alone can not build factories or create jobs or balance national budgets,» Lautenschläger acknowledges.

«The Long Road Back to Balance: Federal Fiscal Policy Following the April 1989 Budget,» Fiscal Policy Monitor 2, by Maureen Farrow and William B.P. Robson (July).

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

The Minister claimed that the «International Monetary Fund's annual review of Canada's economic developments and policies, which strongly supports the Government's plan to return to balanced budgets over the medium term».

Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under Austerity, Balanced budgets, Federal elections 2015, Liberal Party policy.

Lockport Township Park District trustees have approved a $ 4.3 million balanced budget that, in a shift of policy, includes $ 220,000 for the acquisition and development of parks in Romeoville.

Of course, Whittam Smith's local notables would agree a set of policies on areas as uncontroversial as immigration, Europe, and how to balance the UK's wayward budget.

Maloney said, «I'm running because there is an urgent need to take back our Congress from extremists who reject smart investments in health care, education and infrastructure; who reject sensible tax policies that create jobs and balance budgets; and who would end Medicare as we know it.»

As a balanced budget law does not allow that investment, Labour would be opposed to the Tory policy.

The program also helps balance the state budget, thanks to the complexities of immigration policy.

«A balanced approach to balancing the state budget makes good economic sense, but is also important from a societal perspective that the pain of balancing the state budget be spread more fairly and that counter-productive cuts in essential services, from education to mental health, be avoided,» said Frank Mauro, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

The Fiscal Policy Institute's briefing on Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2005 - 2006 bBudget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2005 - 2006 budgetbudget.

The Fiscal Policy Institute's 13th annual budget briefing: analysis of Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2003 - 2004 bbudget briefing: analysis of Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2003 - 2004 bBudget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2003 - 2004 budgetbudget.

«I will, once again, provide it with an option that not only generates enough revenue to balance the budget, but also includes critical policy initiatives that should be addressed.»

In 2011 the CPC introduced what it called the People's Budget, which reached budget balance in 10 years according to an assessment by the Economic Policy Institute based on nonpartisan governmentBudget, which reached budget balance in 10 years according to an assessment by the Economic Policy Institute based on nonpartisan governmentbudget balance in 10 years according to an assessment by the Economic Policy Institute based on nonpartisan government data.

The Fiscal Policy Institute's analysis of Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2006 - 2007 bBudget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2006 - 2007 budgetbudget.

'' [S] ome of Governor Cuomo's budget policies are neither balanced nor well conceived,» write the signers, led by Robert Jackson, a New York City Councilman, and Catherine Fahey, a local Albany official.

Its policy goals include cuts to income tax rates, a repeal of the estate tax, limited government and a Balanced Budget Amendment, entitlement reform, free trade, tort reform, school choice and deregulation.

Freezing property taxes is a budget win in an election year for Republicans, moderates and Cuomo, who tries to balance fiscal conservatism with progressive social policy.

«We were out of compliance with our policy and previous budgets were using the fund balance to mitigate a tax increase,» Conroy said.

He says he will «flat fund» discretionary state spending to balance the budget, a plan that experts in the state Office of Policy and Management and the nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis agree doesn't work.

Outyear projections serve an important purpose: They show the policy choices and tradeoffs the Administration and Congress have assumed in order to achieve the goal of a balanced budget.

Kelly Ruppel, district chief of staff and a member of the charter review committee, said the three schools were chartered under a different policy, at a time when the district did not require balanced budgets or specify a per - pupil amount.

Policy changes in the wake of the general election, cost pressures from increased national insurance and pension costs, and the fragmented landscape of academy, maintained, multi-academy and other school structures added to the difficulty of running balanced budgets and legally compliant buildings.

Eliminate Keynesian idiocy, and manage the economy sensibly, balancing the budget as a normal matter, and don't use government or central bank policy to moderate it, because that only creates liquidity traps like the one we are in.

At least the budget will be balanced, and we will have more certainty on economic policy.

It is rare, possibly even non-existent to find countries that run balanced budgets, have sound monetary policy, and haven't overpromised on entitlements.

To meet those risks effectively — without blowing your budget — you need tailored, balanced, and strategic Cedar Park, TX insurance policies backing you up.

«Rather than spend time on a proposal that, if anything like this administration's previous budgets, will double down on the same failed policies that have led to the worst economic recovery in modern times, Congress should continue our work on building a budget that balances and that will foster a healthy economy,» said House Budget Chairman Rep. Tom Price, Rbudget that balances and that will foster a healthy economy,» said House Budget Chairman Rep. Tom Price, RBudget Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R - Ga.

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A sustainable model is one in which the budget is balanced with only as much investment income as dictated by the endowment spending policy.

While some major oil - producing nations wisely saved part of their windfall in sovereign wealth funds, the oil price needed to balance their budgets kept creeping up while their long - discussed economic diversification policies did not materialise.

* These are listed for recreational purposes only, and should not be considered by politicians desperately trying to balance a budget as sound fiscal policy.

The board's policy demands a balance of at least $ 150,000 at all times in the special fund, so the it had to go to the city for permission to transfer $ 480,000 out of its 2011 operating budget surplus to cover the remaining costs of the review.