Sentences with phrase «finance infrastructure spending»

There has arguably never been a better time for governments to finance infrastructure spending.

In contrast, there are considerable opportunities to find savings on the revenue side to finance infrastructure spending.

In the 2015 election, Trudeau ran on an economic platform that touted deficit - financed infrastructure spending and a boost in federal benefits for families with kids.

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State Sen. Dave Lewis, a former Montana budget director who now leads the Finance Committee, said he would use his influence to make sure the windfall is used for one - time spending, such as on buildings and infrastructure.

«Since Sir John A. Macdonald laid a railway across a continent, infrastructure has been both an immediate response to an urgent need and a hopeful act of nation building,» Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said, casting deficit spending as a proud part of Canada's heritage.

«Increased government spending, particularly more infrastructure investment financed primarily by higher taxes on the well - to - do, acts as an economic stimulant.»

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Expect a lot of «clever» talk and «imaginative» ideas about how to finance new infrastructure spending, without the words infrastructure «deficit» and «debt».

We have made this same case for deficit financing of infrastructure spending in previous commentaries (March 12, 2014).

Cities across Canada should consider new and innovative approaches to financing their share of infrastructure spending, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report.

What is emerging is a widening «fiscal divide» between a federal government with its diminished size and sound finances, and provincial governments with growing fiscal imbalances resulting from growing spending pressures (e.g., for health, education, infrastructure) and slowing economic growth and revenue growth.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

If, before the stimulus, government finances were in good shape, as was the case in China, then stimulus does indeed stimulate: The modest budget deficit that it causes is easily financed, and the extra spending creates some jobs and maybe some useful infrastructure, depending on how well targeted it is.

David and his team have spent the last eight years building a globally connected infrastructure for seed - stage financing.

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The Liberals embraced the recommendations of many economists, including ourselves, that with a sustainable fiscal situation, they could strengthen long - term economic growth by undertaking infrastructure spending financed by borrowing at historically low interest rates.

A Ranking Member of Parliament's Finance Committee and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Legislator for Old Tafo, Anthony Osei Akoto, also said the unhealthy fall in spending for infrastructure was bad.

Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.

And yet no government has really solved the problem of how to finance the infrastructure we need within the public spending constraints we have.

He promised # 30bn in extra in spending on public services in Scotland and # 40bn on infrastructure over the next decade, financed by heavier taxes and borrowing.

The blueprint would shift $ 4 million above current spending levels to state revolving funds and $ 20 million to the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program.

The Summit will focus more particularly on innovation, developing new carbon markets and mechanisms, greening finance, brown to green infrastructure spending and de-risking and crowding in finance.

With the new President pledging to spend $ 1 trillion over ten years on infrastructure projects backed by bi-partisan Congressional support, private opportunities for developing and financing this infrastructure buildout will open up.