Sentences with phrase «drain on public finances»

Instead, he announced more tax relief for the North Sea oil and gas sector — which Carbon Brief had revealed in April to have recently become a net drain on the public finances.

This brief presents that in Egypt, spending on fuel subsidies was a drain on public finances with benefits skewing toward the rich and exacerbating inequalities.

If the business had not survived there would have been several people out of work, a growing business closed, a family on the scrap heap and a further drain on public finances.

By transferring to the private sector ownership of Canada Post, the federal government can eliminate a major drain on public finances and move closer to the goals of eliminating the fiscal deficit and paying down public sector debt.

Not exact matches

Away from the details, even the mood music of the centrist proposals contrasts sharply with the government's critical approach to the public sector as a drain on state finances.

Also, charter schools may pose a drain on public school finances.

These licenses — really an intimidation and protection racket subsidized by public funds — had been a serious impediment to research and learning and an unnecessary drain on our finances for too long.