Sentences with phrase «cutting public spending on»

There, well before the fiscal crisis struck home, the leadership argued for cutting public spending on the basis that it was too high.

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And while public dissatisfaction with the legislation has been focused on the notion that the Republican tax cuts are deeply skewed toward the wealthiest Americans and the corporations they run, Barkan, who has spent years galvanizing support for a more diverse and inclusive Federal Reserve, wants to remind Americans this legislation also includes cuts to their healthcare.

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

And internationally, debt - ridden economies are subject to pressure from inter-governmental institutions such as the IMF and European Central Bank to impose fiscal austerity on their labor force, cut back public spending and even sell off public enterprises.

In recognizing the catalysts behind the public's persistence to save and reluctance to spend, additional analysis by policymakers should focus on the efficacy of further rate cuts on spending and investment, as well as potential «roundabout» benefits of a more normal rates regime to affirm support toward the public's saving objectives, with the end goal of boosting public's risk sentiment and perceptions of future economic stability.

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.

This particular blowhardism is a combination of positions on entitlement spending, taxation, military engagement, and purely rhetorical spending cutting radicalism that can't withstand contact with the realities of either the federal budget or public opinion.

Results have not gone United's way recently and Mourinho has cut a frustrated figure with public criticisms of not spending enough on transfers among his complaints.

Chicago Public Schools has increased property taxes the past two years, a move Emanuel has justified in part by talking about cost - cutting initiatives at the central office and the need to emphasize greater spending on the city's children.

A modelling exercise for the Resolution Foundation by the Institute for Employment Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies finds that on the basis of annual average UK growth of 2.5 per cent from 2015 - 2020 — an optimistic scenario — and no further cuts in public spending, living standards will fall for low and middle income households by between 3 and 15 per cent (Brewer et al., 2012).

Despite our tough plans for cuts in public spending, we have stuck to the previous Government's commitments on capital investment, apart from some small savings made in May.

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.

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 future strategic tanker aircraft has seen a # 336 million increase in cost because of fuel price inflation, but a failure to take advantage of opportunities to cut the overall bill on the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was criticised by the public spending watchdog.

This is despite the catch - all language of «cuts» used by political opponents, as well as by governments themselves when it suited to portray themselves as bearing down hard on public spending.

The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some time.

Changes could be on the way for the traveling public both in the air and on the ground if the $ 85 billion worth of spending cuts take effect as planned.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

cut international development spending and Labour activists go completely ballistic cut ID cards and get attacked as soft on terror, having wasted billions and being weak cut public sector jobs and have a winter of discontent pull out of Afghanistan and really annoy the Americans

But I bet you that, when all those people are deciding which name to put a cross by on 2 May, ultimately they'll be asking themselves the same question: «While cuts are being made to public spending, who can I rely on to spend the money that is available on the right things?»

On 13 March, the Liberal Democrats said they would not support any plan to cut public spending too early in the next Parliament.

As a result we are set to spend # 97 billion on new nuclear weapons at a time when public spending faces deep cuts.

When it comes to giving the public reassurance on spending cuts, Nick Clegg manages to raise more questions than he answers.

Speaking on the Today programme after the letter emerged, Osborne defended his warning of spending cuts and tax rises, saying Brexit would bring with it «chaos» in the UK's public finances.

However, the SNP were stronger on being against public spending cuts than Labour and were also in favour of scrappint Trident.

Public sector workers in Britain have gone on strike today in a row over pay, pensions, conditions, jobs and spending cuts.

Public sector workers are striking today over a row on pay, conditions, pensions and spending cuts.

[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.

Nick Clegg acknowledged Northern Ireland's reliance on public sector jobs makes it especially vulnerable to spending cuts in a speech in the province last night.

Mr McWilliams argued: «A more credible plan to cut public spending in the medium term than simply relying on wildly optimistic forecasts - as seen in the last Budget - is absolutely necessary.»

11:00 - An hour and a half until chancellor Alistair Darling delivers his Pre-Budget Report (PBR), in which he is expected to announce a super-tax on bank bonuses and cuts to public spending.

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In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

Among the party's other policies: a # 50bn a year cut in spending, a 31 per cent flat rate of income tax, the abolition of national insurance, a five - year freeze on new immigrants settling in Britain, a ban on wearing the burka in public - and in some private — buildings, and boot camps for young offenders.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

Spinmeisters like Lord Mandelson continue to advance transparently dishonest claims, such as his ludicrous assertion that the government could not give projections of public spending cuts — which we all know must come — because they would be based on «speculation».

But on the Tory commitment to cut public spending immediately, he said: «You've got to ask yourself, would either of the other parties be prepared to do that?»

Gaby Hinsliff's analysis on how smaller parties are eyeing up a hung parliament The crunch issue could be public spending cuts.

The coalition says it is still committed to cutting back on public spending.

[172] Other unions have also faced calls from members to reduce financial support for the Party [173] and seek more effective political representation for their views on privatisation, public spending cuts and the anti-trade union laws.

But by leaping in to defend public workers, the president risks alienating swing voters in those states and nationwide who are sympathetic to GOP governors perceived as taking on special interests to cut spending.

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.

«There is,» he continues, «a powerful argument for the UK getting on with cutting public spending more aggressively, now, in order to avoid the risk of being forced into far harsher spending cuts later.»

The Buffalo Public School District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their buildings.

According to Labour strategists, the row over Howard Flight's remarks on public spending shows that «the Tories are two parties» - unreconstructed Thatcherites such as Mr Flight who want deep spending cuts and the New Tories trying to show that the party has moved on.

It was a vision far removed from the massive cuts Osborne once proposed for after the election, all of which were due to take place without any tax rises to offset the impact on public spending.

The government has made commitments to crack down on tax avoidance in order to ease the impact of public spending cuts, though the # 2 billion figure suggested by Mr Gauke was dismissed as insufficient by unions.

Appearing on radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the deputy prime minister said he had struggled with his conscience over cuts to public spending.

Why spending on a Green New Deal will reduce the public debt, cut carbon emissions, increase energy security and reduce fuel poverty

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.