Sentences with phrase «draconian cuts»

The solutions envisioned by the Kyoto Protocol were looked at by the developed countries and rejected because they would result in draconian cuts in energy production, which they judged would cripple their economies.So they decided to wait and study the situation further.

This, you say, is in part because the federal government has made «dramatic reductions in expenditures for medical care and prescription drugs for the poor and elderly, along with draconian cuts in spending on after - school programs for needy children.

While imposing draconian cuts on higher education, the climate - change denial dominated Australian government has given Lomborg $ 4 million (Australian $) to set up a -LSB-...]

He has proposed Draconian cuts to state aid to cities and towns if there's no budget by October 1.

There is also no doubt that without these tax cuts the government would have been in a much better fiscal position to deal with the 2009 - 2010 recession; that any resulting deficit, would have been eliminated much earlier than 2015 - 16, and without the need for draconian cuts in federal programs and services.

Both the House and Senate budget proposals include draconian cuts to funding for school districts» central office operations.

The states face a combined shortfall of $ 125 billion, and to help balance their budgets, some are making draconian cuts in public education and employees, including, of course, teachers.

Unsurprisingly, support for the Tories has diminished as they have made it clear — with Cameron's warning of «an age of austerity» and George Osborne's draconian cuts proposals — that they will ruthlessly carry out capitalism's demands for the working class to pay for the economic crisis.

Voucher programs have hurt students academically, while draconian cuts to food stamps, disability aid and health care threatens students» very lives.

«As communities in New York recover from Hurricane Irene, will Representative Chris Gibson let his Republican Leadership hold disaster relief funding until draconian cuts are made to things like Medicare and education?»

He is particularly pleased to claim the support of both Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson for his argument against the coalition's draconian cuts programme.

Draconian cuts during the red - and - green budget fiasco left the Department of Public Works with far too few resources to adequately maintain the sprawling county road system.

Towns like West Seneca and Aurora would lose out on millions of funding that comes from their portion of the sales tax leading to possible draconian cuts or even worse, further tax increases at the town and village level.

There was confusion among Corbyn spokespeople, but, by the end of the campaign, Corbyn's policy of continuing most of the planned draconian cuts to welfare was confirmed as still in place.

«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.

«It has no tax increases, no layoffs of teachers or uniformed workers, and no walking away from our long - term investments,» said the mayor, who credited prudent fiscal planning for avoiding more draconian cuts.

Twenty - six school boards in Wisconsin banded together to send resolutions to their representatives about draconian cuts to public school budgets and the redirection of funds to charter schools.

But a pivotal other factor was the ballot success of Governor Brown's big 2012 gamble: Proposition 30, a temporary tax increase that averted further draconian cuts in recession - decimated school districts.

All the designers Slanted met talked very positively about the event, bringing back art and life to Athens, suffering from draconian cuts in culture budgets.»

Because, late last year, when student protests against draconian cuts in national education spending ignited UK Uncut, an immensely appealing, direct actionist movement that demands that corporations actually pay their taxes, and when, soon thereafter, the flames jumped the Atlantic and, against the background of the Wisconsin showdown, US Uncut appeared on the scene, the calculus of economic justice — and climate justice — and climate politics — abruptly changed.

The FY2018 federal budget proposal to Congress contains draconian cuts for clean energy and climate among the cuts for other important discretionary programs.

In fact, I'd argue that the «art of the deal» approach the administration took in negotiating with Congress over the budget numbers (pushing overly draconian cuts in the hope that Congress would move slightly closer in their direction) proved to have the opposite effect.

Given that we have a political culture in which «reductions in the annual draconian cuts, I think that such an approach has its merits.

It is the perfect storm that occurs when liberal and conservative dogma are combined: a government imposing draconian cuts with one hand and taking away mechanisms to help people stay afloat with the other.

He has proposed draconian cuts to state aid to municipalities if there's still no budget by October 1.

The Trump administration released its preliminary proposed 2018 budget yesterday, which included draconian cuts to a wide array of non-defense discretionary spending.

Perry's confirmation comes amid reports of draconian cuts to the department's budget, including rolling back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The anticipated budget to be unveiled next week will likely have draconian cuts in education aid.

How do they make those not - so - draconian cuts?

Does this line of argument ultimately endorse the coalition government's draconian cuts to legal aid as a tool for securing higher success figures for the UKBA?

The two - year budget deal reached in Washington on Friday ensures no draconian cuts in federal aid to the state and city, undercuts arguments to raise some local taxes and portends problems for Cuomo as he exaggerates the impact of Congress's tax bill on New Yorkers.

«That leaves us no recourse but to plan for the possibility that the state will go ahead with the draconian cuts.»

Some people I talk with blame the Red and Green Budget mess of 2005 with its Draconian cuts to the county Department of Public Works.

Aresimowicz says he's calling for a September 14th budget vote because his House Democratic caucus wants to avoid what he says are Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's draconian cuts to public education that would take effect if there is no budget by October 1.

«The proposed draconian cuts to NOAA's budget would be devastating to the economy, jobs, and to the safety and livelihoods of Americans in every state,» says Jane Lubchenco, former NOAA Administrator under President Obama.

The case they are making — and it's not completely crazy — is that states should «tax the rich» instead of carry out draconian cuts to education.

President Trump's draconian cuts would weaken the educational pipeline to college and future careers for the African - American community.

(One of the towns hardest hit by the governor's draconian cuts, Stratford stands to lose $ 2.89 million and was the last town to pass a budget.)

Connecticut teachers are urging legislators to take up the critical issue of education funding when they convene for a special session later this month to focus on the draconian cuts devastating the state's public schools and shortchanging students» education.

«The draconian cuts imposed by the Trump - DeVos education budget would mean more kids packed into classrooms and fewer resources to train and retain teachers,» he said.

Phil Beadle, a parent at the school (pictured below), said the «draconian cuts» were negatively impacting «our children's loved and respected teachers.»

The only outcomes possible then are failure or draconian cuts in power availability.

Federal climate change research programs coordinated under the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) are being subjected to draconian cuts; many are being downsized or totally defunded, and climate change scientists are now routinely being reassigned to other projects.

Oops, typo: meant to write «Given that we have a political culture in which «reductions in the annual increases» to the provinces», i.e. a decrease in the rate of increase, are seen a draconian cuts»

These draconian cuts are just another example of Tea Party Republicans» attacks on women's health.

After the president had agreed to raise taxes, rather than make the draconian cuts needed to adhere to the law, it became clear he'd been saying, «Don't nuke Texas,» when most of us thought he'd said, «No new taxes.»