Sentences with phrase «balancing the budget on»

My 10 - year plan is to balance the budget on day 1.

Governor Paterson believes it's his responsibility to pass a balanced budget on to the next administration, explained Kriss, but since the state's fiscal year doesn't end until March 31, the deficit can remain until then.

«The notion that we are somehow going to balance our budget on the backs of children engaging in All - American activities like Little League Baseball is outrageous.»

Pelosi told the president that House Democrats still support his push for a «grand bargain» that doesn't balance the budget on the backs of seniors with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, a Democratic aide said.

«The difference between us and other states is we did not balance our budget on the back of our local communities,» he said.

He continued, «Instead of looking for a handout and attempting to balance its budget on the backs of the hard - working men and women who travel to work in New York City each day, the MTA would be better served by engaging in internal cost - cutting measures and proven budgetary practices that actually make fiscal sense.

To this end, the County Executive shall recommend to the Legislature budgetary adjustments as are necessary to maintain a balanced budget on an ongoing basis.

«Nobody disagrees that we need to address the deficit, but it is absurd to balance the budget on the backs of working families, the elderly, the disabled and the poor,» Sanders said in a summary of the plan.

I think we have to accept the reality that the structure of the finances are broken and that just balancing the budget on bubble gum and duct tape isn't going to work anymore.»

«We should not balance budgets on the backs of the poor.

Bearing signs saying «Don't balance the budget on the backs of the poor» and shouting «Hey hey, ho ho, the funding cuts have got to go,» the roughly 150 demonstrators, largely from New York City, represented progressive activist groups pushing for rent reductions for people with HIV, homeless services, low - income housing, health care and other issues.

Cuomo should not balance his budget on the backs of State workers.

«Jack's plan won't balance the budget on the back of the county workforce,» Laricchiuta said.

Assembly Democrats made clear from the beginning that any solution that balances our budget on the backs of the hard - working men and women of our community would be unacceptable.

«Instead of balancing the budget on the backs of hard - working Wisconsinites, we need to come up with a balanced approach that looks at shared sacrifice from everyone.»

Every time there is a budget crisis, the government decides to balance the budget on the backs of the middle class.»

«We need to pay our bills, but not balance the budget on the backs of our seniors,» U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - Astoria) said.

Patterson attempts to balance the budget on the backs of state workers.

Iain Duncan Smith has, for some time, wanted to base the extra # 10billion cuts needed from his budget on changing universal benefits so that the middle classes and higher earners do not receive unjustified handouts (child benefit for higher earners, for example), rather than balance his budget on the backs of the poor and vulnerable.

«I really think the problem is the Chancellor George Osborne, who balances a budget on the basis of cutting PIPs then I listened to the budget on Wednesday and it was very clear to me that was what he intended to do.

«This is what happens when you try to balance a budget on the backs of children,» Duplessis said.

Why would you want to balance the budget on the backs of those kids?

We will not balance our budget on the backs of children,» she explains.

I'm not even a fan of charter schools, but a 40 % holdback is, as Mahmoud said, balancing the budget on the back of education, meaning that, in reality, it's balancing the budget on the backs of children.

«This is balancing the budget on the back of education,» he said.

The new school budgets released by CPS last week continue the trend of balancing the budget on the backs of school children and teachers.

Sousa also accused Ottawa of cutting $ 640 million in transfer payments to Queen's Park in order to try to balance the budget on «the backs of Ontarians.»

I would also require balanced budgets on an accrual basis, ending the problems of non-funding Social Security and Medicare.

I'm relatively certain that most states and municipalities have to balance their budgets on a cash basis, not an accrual basis.

«He wants to balance the budget on workers» backsides,» he said.

«The GOP is trying to balance the budget on the backs of the working class and senior citizens while giving breaks to big business and corporate executives.

Not exact matches

April 30 - A state of Michigan board voted on Monday to end active oversight of Detroit's finances after the city managed to balance its budgets since exiting bankruptcy in 2014..

What Oliver should have done was backtrack on Harper's pledge to balance the budget, recognizing that the collapse of oil prices would cause private investment to disintegrate.

Eight months earlier, when a Conservative member of the House of Commons finance committee asked him to comment on the merits of a balanced budget, Poloz demurred.

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April 30 (Reuters)- A state of Michigan board voted on Monday to end active oversight of Detroit's finances after the city managed to balance its budgets since exiting bankruptcy in 2014.

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.

Another beneficiary of the Tea Party wave, Mulvaney serves on the Budget Committee, and earned conservative cred as a co-author of the Republican «Cut, Cap and Balance» legislation.

In a two - step plan, Boehner is pressing for a vote on Wednesday and a second vote Thursday on a balanced - budget amendment to the Constitution.

While Congress generally found a way around the most unpleasant aspects of 1980s - era cliffs, their presence imposed a parsimonious mood on Washington that eventually resulted in the balanced budgets of the Clinton years.

«If you look out into the medium term, the effect is okay so that we can balance the budget in the medium term — and that is around 2014 - 2015 or so, depending on the degree of economic growth,» Flaherty said.

He is a strong proponent of a smaller local government and supports cuts to certain popular programs and caps on entitlements to township employees to keep the budget in balance.

Last year, when asked about balanced budget legislation he told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance «I don't think writing something into law, and then expecting that future governments will be held by that, is realistic.»

Many of these companies already enjoyed a bump in share prices when the Liberals won the election, and again after the budget announcement, but Nazir thinks the real gains will come once the extra cash starts showing up on balance sheets.

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 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.

While tales of old are no substitute for new victories and a lack of focus on the American market is a concern, manufacturers did quite well — especially given that we have a government devoted to balancing the budget.

TORONTO — Fitch Ratings downgraded Ontario's long - term debt rating Friday, highlighting «risks» on the path to the Liberal government's target of balancing the budget by 2017 - 18.

Instead of front - loading austere budgetary measures and cruising to a balanced budget, the government has chosen to stay the course on the plan mapped out in Budgetbudget, the government has chosen to stay the course on the plan mapped out in BudgetBudget 2014.

[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.