Sentences with phrase «cuts in public services»

It's easy to say you're against deficits, tax hikes and cuts in public services, and you're for fiscal discipline, living within one's means, cutting waste, fraud and abuse and all that other campaign pap.

Ed Miliband has sent mixed messages on the concept, endorsing some aspects of it but also saying earlier this year that it was simply a «cloak» for cuts in public services.

Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies says the plans set out by George Osborne in his Autumn Statement will result in «massive» cuts in public services.

Senior Labour figures hope the agenda for maintaining high - level public services will be easily contrasted with the Conservatives» alleged plans for ten per cent cuts in public services, a figure the party disputes.

Our key task in this parliament is to ensure that the glint that appears in George Osborne's eye whenever there is talk of cuts in public services never becomes more than that.

As falling GDP, rising unemployment, cuts in wages and pensions, increases in taxes, cuts in public services all continue to bite, the question may not be why are there so many protests in Greece but rather why there aren't more.

Nobody wants to have cuts in public services.

NEC members praised his conference speech and drew attention to Tory attacks on employment rights including access to tribunals, the paradox under which British railways can be run by states as long as they are foreign states, the need for good jobs not just any jobs, further cuts in public service pay, the threat of a new European / United States trade agreement, excessive warmth towards free schools, and expansion of food banks and payday loans into mainstream society.

Not exact matches

As would other key players, including former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond (author of a detailed report outlining cost - cutting opportunities in Ontario) and former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, who has spent decades uncovering wasteful spending in the public service.

Prime Minister Theresa May refused to accept Corbyn's claim that Tory cuts to public services had played a part in the Grenfell Tower tragedy, urging MPs across the House instead to «come together» to work out how the tragedy was allowed to unfold.

That there would be job cuts at a legacy IT provider is almost a forgone conclusion as these companies, many of which made the bulk of their money on pricey, proprietary hardware and software, must adapt to a world in which more companies send more of their computing jobs to a public cloud provider like Amazon @amzn (amzn) Web Services.

Given the massive give away in tax cuts by Harper, I truly do not see how Canadians can expect to have the level of traditional public goods and services without some form of medium term deficit financing.

The Institute recommends that employment in the federal public service be cut by 2 percent per year for the next four years.

I think that, following all of these huge cost - cutting measures and huge knock on the public service in recent decades, we would do well to lay off the public service a little bit.

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.

Cutting government services — either temporarily in a shutdown, or permanently through spending reductions — can disrupt a broad range of commerce and hit American workers and businesses tied to the public sector.

And if corporations pay a lower share of taxes, that means the rest of us will pay moreâ $» either through relatively higher taxes or cuts in funding for public services.

VICTORIA — A plan to cut chemotherapy services for cancer patients in Nanaimo that was reversed only after public outcry shows B.C. Liberal cuts are leading to bad policy decisions that will hurt patients, say New Democrats.

EDMONTON - Today, NDP Leader Rachel Notley announced her plan to end political interference in Alberta's infrastructure priorities list and protect frontline public services from Jim Prentice's cuts.

Last spring the budget for human services and public education in Massachusetts was threatened with devastating cuts because of a shortfall in revenues.

This change — along with a proposal to end the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, cut federal work study in half and largely affect income - based student loan repayment plans — would need to be approved by Congress along with the rest of the proposed budget.

In New Lenox, the Public Library District is seeking voter approval of a 13 - cent increase in its tax rate to restore hours of service at the library that were cut after a proposed 15 - cent tax rate increase was rejected in NovembeIn New Lenox, the Public Library District is seeking voter approval of a 13 - cent increase in its tax rate to restore hours of service at the library that were cut after a proposed 15 - cent tax rate increase was rejected in Novembein its tax rate to restore hours of service at the library that were cut after a proposed 15 - cent tax rate increase was rejected in Novembein November.

It highlights the recent cuts to breastfeeding support services and the infant feeding specialist posts, which are driven by cuts to public health, which amount to # 200 million in total in England.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union voted to join teachers in England and Wales in Thursday's day of action against government cuts.

In any case, the investigation will trouble government ministers keen to argue that council budgets may be cut without deleterious consequences for public services.

And we need to stop engaging in a narrative that blames voters for Tory failures in managing our economy and for ideological budget cuts that have stretched our public services to breaking point.The left are good at diagnosing problems, but too often we shy away from pitching solutions.

At a time when the Government are cutting back on public services and relying on the private sector to meet the challenges of providing services to the Community in many of those areas where the public sector cut backs have reduced services, the National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) believes, the news that G4S have failed to meet their target for security personnel at the Olympic Games must leave us all concerned about the future.

Because action now on growth is the best way to mitigate the scale of the cuts the Government says it has to make to public services in 2015 - 16 and beyond.

We can now expect to inherit an economy with families under real financial pressure, businesses that have lost vital opportunities to invest, and public finances in poor shape, despite deep cuts to vital public services.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

«Public attention is likely to continue to focus on the service and job cuts which councils determine in order to balance their budgets.»

«Hard as the Chancellor tried in his Autumn Statement, he could not conceal the fact that real terms cuts will continue to hit public services.

«Let loose in government on their own they would wreck the recovery — costing jobs, driving up interest rates and undermining the growth needed to cut tax bills and fund public services,» he will say.

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.

While Trump's federal tax cut is causing headaches for some New Yorkers, Cuomo and regulators at the state Public Service Commission are working to ensure that utility customers in the state are able to reap some of the benefits as soon as possible.

Labour's argument was rejected - or failed to get across (partly because it all seemed about # 6 billion this year)- but against opponents who said cutting waste was important, but in David Cameron's case that he would reject any ministerial plan to cut public services.

In his response, Corbyn accused Cameron of turning a blind eye to the «consequences» of cuts to public services and branded the government a «driverless car heading in the wrong direction»In his response, Corbyn accused Cameron of turning a blind eye to the «consequences» of cuts to public services and branded the government a «driverless car heading in the wrong direction»in the wrong direction».

One interesting illustration of the issue came up when the US Republican presidential candidate last fall, Mitt Romney, opened the first of the three presidential debates by saying that he wanted to cut off funding for PBS, the public - funded broadcasting service in the US.

They are bad for a lot of other reasons (damaging public services, widening inequality, threatening growth) but it seems fairly clear to me that the Tories in particular are cutting deeply and quickly for base political expediency.

And it's what Ed Miliband tried to do by ignoring the deficit and pretending Labour wouldn't have to cut public services if they were in power.

However, as in scenario 1 but not so starkly, it is hard (if not impossible) to imagine that the Liberal Democrats would walk out and force another general election because they could not secure greater cuts to public services.

A Scottish Labour spokesman said: «This election is all about which party will use the powers of the Scottish Parliament to stop the cuts and invest in our public services.

As the public continues to bear the brunt of pain after budget cuts to services, schools, and safety net programs, community leaders came together to demand that our elected leaders in the State Senate and Assembly ensure the priorities of Central New York are met by passing Fair Elections.

The heated debate over how government cuts have affected local councils, and campaigns to save local public services such as libraries has demonstrated how people are deeply engaged with what happens in their communities.

In the context of across - theboard cuts to public services, some of which we know regrettably must be made, arguing against cuts to the arts may not seem the right fight to pick.

An ongoing independent poll of 143,000 working people being conducted for Unite, Britain's biggest union, shows that immigration is in fact ranked last as an issue of concern with working people's top worries being money problems, the rising cost of living, cuts to public services, stress, education and housing.

Warming to his subject, he condemned Mr Cameron's plans to share the proceeds of economic growth between investment in public services and tax cuts, saying this would mean «substantial» cutbacks in health and education funding.

Fifty thousand tax workers are being balloted on a wide - ranging programme of industrial action in a dispute over job cuts, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

The new head of New York City's cash - strapped public hospital network has cut $ 16 million in consulting costs since he started two months ago — but the system is losing up to $ 190 million a year for unbilled services to the insured.

However, by the third debate, Nick Clegg had lost his joint equal first place with David Cameron in terms of being seen as most trusted to make any necessary cuts to public services.