Sentences with phrase «course public spending cuts»

I cannpot see how we shall get out of this hole by not inceasing some indirect taxes such as VAT plus of course public spending cuts.

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The government, it said, remained on course for a # 10 billion surplus in 2019 - 20, but only by delaying capital investment, promising further cuts in spending on public services, and bringing forward a one - off boost to corporation tax receipts into 2019 - 20.

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

«I believed that if we made a principled case for ruling out a VAT rise, as well as against premature cuts in public spending, it would change the course of the election,» said Mr Balls.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.