Sentences with phrase «cuts on public services»

The Pontypridd MP told the Guardian: «I was more than frustrated: I was furious that we were sitting there with a Tory Government that has imposed swingeing cuts on public services, on tax credits, on universal credit, that have smashed women and public sector workers the length and breadth of Britain, and we are taking lectures from them about social justice and economic fairness.

This means that to pay for it we will either have to impose even greater cuts on public services or introduce alternative, potentially regressive forms of taxation.

Not exact matches

But none of the broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among other education - related cuts.

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.

A February report, released by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, noted that key experts on a small Transport Canada team overseeing the transportation of dangerous goods were affected by budget cuts prior to the Lac - Megantic accident, leading to some early retirements.

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.

It has cut taxes all over the place, choking the public services that Canadians rely on.

That claim got turned into a banner wrap on Premier Clark's election tour bus for a «debt - free BC» and also hints at tax cuts and increase public services to boot.

However, his plans on cuts to the public sector and bringing private firms into the health service go further than she could ever have dreamed.

It's possible that the cuts will have taken such a toll on public services by then that we'll be hollering for more spending, but I see no sign of it just yet.

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.

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

«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.

The Department for Work and Pensions must halt its damaging cuts programme, the secretary of state for work and pensions Chris Grayling will be told on Wednesday (14) at a meeting with the Public and Commercial Services union.

These are the arguments we need to be using; it has to be about cuts impacting on the delivery of key public services, services that people all too often take for granted and that they don't yet realise they're set to lose unless they're prepared to fight for them.

Faced with a choice between using the powers of the Parliament to protect the public services that pensioners rely on or carrying on with the SNP's cuts, Labour will use the powers.»

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.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

Cost of Government Administration: It is often said that NPM reforms associated with Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s focused on cost - cutting of the central bureaucracy to the detriment of staff morale and public services.

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service jobpublic sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service jobPublic and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.

They called on Cuomo to «put people first,» urging him to protect public services New Yorkers rely on and focus on cutting the unemployment rate instead of tax rates for the richest 3 %.

He insisted on sticking to Darling's deficit reduction plan and argued that Labour should run for the next general election committed to leaving the current government's cuts to public services in place.

[6] Correspondingly, classical liberals tended to favour cutting taxes for the poorest in order to increase opportunity, contrasting with social liberals, who would rather see higher spending on public services and the disadvantaged in order to reduce income inequality.

The way the government has implemented cuts to redundancy terms for the civil service will be challenged by the Public and Commercial Services union at a judicial review starting on Thursday 22 April.

Cuts to benefits and public services have a direct effect on sex workers and serve to prevent them leaving the industry, or going back into it.

The Public and Commercial Services Union general secretary said a march of one million people through London followed by strike action on a «large scale» would force the government to think again on cuts.

With $ 30 billion more in state revenue, we could restore full funding for public schools and colleges, pay for the state mandates on local governments through increased revenue sharing, cut regressive local property and sales taxes, and build the infrastructure and services of the Green New Deal.

Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.

Come 2015 or whenever the next election is, Labour isn't going to go into the election pledging to spend # 1 billion on giving cash handouts to the richest 15 % of families, and in a fortnight there are # 12 billion in welfare cuts plus untold billions more in cutting public services which will be higher priorities to oppose and pledge to reverse.

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.

The public is divided, split down the middle, on the merits of deficit reduction if it means cuts to spending on public services.

Lord Falconer, the lord chancellor, acknowledged there were «considerable constraints on public expenditure» but said efficiency savings meant there should be no cuts to services.

«We will not allow ourselves to be drawn into accepting cuts to welfare, attacks on public services, mass job losses, and cuts to pay and pensions, with the occasional promise of tea and a cosy chat in Downing Street.

The main civil servants» union, the Public and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face&rPublic and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face&rpublic sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face».

«Instead of cutting jobs, the government should be investing in public services like these to help get people back to work more quickly and help our economy to get back on track.»

Responding to reports that Danny Alexander will later today (17) announce the government will not change its mind on cutting public sector pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotkapublic sector pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark SerwotkaPublic and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.

Cuts of more than 25 % in the criminal justice system means the government is trying to deliver «justice on the cheap», the Public and Commercial Services union says.

Commenting on reports chancellor George Osborne will today announce a further # 10.5 billion cut from the welfare budget, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said:

The opposition wants to spend the cash from the City on tax credits, cutting the deficit, spending on public services, the bits of the regional growth fund Miliband likes, and even turning empty shops into cultural community centres.

It seems rather incongruous that he should spend half of his time on seemingly narrow tasks like trying to get local councils to cut out waste and be more efficient at providing public services, and the other half of his time on «Communities» - ie religion.

Burnham also used his interview to round on the government decision to commit to a real terms increase in NHS funding, which he said will result in «severe cuts» for other crucial public services on which people depend.

On this morning's Today programme, David Blunkett appeared to be invoking the threat not of public service cuts but of Moll Flanders when he asked testily: «Can we trust the Liberal Democrats?

The analysts crunched both the changes in public service cuts and welfare cuts and on both reached gloomier conclusions than the government.

Cutting back the state will have damaging, lasting impacts on public services, the very fabric of our society.

What the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have done to our public services in government since 2010 and the cuts to support for those on low incomes, the disabled and others in need is utterly unforgivable.

He insisted Labour's plans for extra spending on police and other public services, to be funded by an estimated # 2.7 bn in savings from reversing capital gains tax cuts, were «fully costed».

Of the proposal to create special tax districts on developments near transit expansions, an idea known as value capture, Mr. de Blasio said such a move would «blow a hole in the city's budget» and allow the state to raid the city's property tax revenue, forcing him to cut back on vital services such as education or public safety.