Sentences with phrase «dollar budget deficit needing»

'' The next two years will provide no shortage of challenges for our Conference, its partners in government and all New Yorkers: A multi-billion dollar budget deficit needing closure, a government that is still too big and spends too much, chronic unemployment, some of the nation's highest taxes and a continued lack of public confidence in state government,» Kolb said.

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But if that path is taken the actions needed to reduce the one trillion dollar budget deficit will become as much a yoke around its economy as the PIGS deficits are on their economies.

While the business community has called for a complete end to the millionaires tax, Cuomo said the state needs the billions of dollars in revenue the tax generates each year to fund programs and manage looming budget deficits.

Cuomo says with a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and uncertainties in funding from Washington, spending needs to be lower this year.

«The Council also continues to emphasize that, with multi-year, multi-billion (dollar) budget deficits, New York needs to more fully examine its spending practices, especially in major programs such as Medicaid and education, and determine why are our costs are so much higher than other states without the results to match,» said Business Council President Heather Briccetti.

Earlier this week County Executive Ed Day confronted reality and bit the metaphorical budget bullet by facing up to the fact that the County owed millions of dollars, was running a multi-million dollar deficit, had overtaxed homeowners, and had police services that the County could not afford and did not need.

It was also a not - too - subtle suggestion that they need to find a way for those Republicans who traditionally support research to demonstrate their support for the cause despite a trillion - dollar budget deficit.

The primary culprit was a long - accumulating budget deficit (totaling $ 1.35 billion), brought on by bureaucratic bloat, inefficiency, and declining school enrollment — which saw more than a quarter of school seats empty and left the district with badly underused buildings in need of millions of dollars in repairs.

California is facing a huge budget deficit as it is, something like $ 35 billion, and a multibillion dollar suit against CARB is the last thing the state needs — especially one that the Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy are likely to win.