Sentences with phrase «for budget gimmicks»

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Lengthening the budget window simply to allow for more years of deficit - financed spending increases or tax cuts would be an unfortunate gimmick that would undermine many of the important benefits of long - term scoring.

Gimmicks are no substitute for a comprehensive online outreach plan, though, and this initiative also has the secondary effect of opening Republicans up to criticism of their OWN record on the budget — something onto which Democrats were quick to hop.

At a public health forum in Downtown Brooklyn, he railed against the current administration for using «one shots and fiscal gimmicks» to balance its budgets, and slammed Bloomberg's large soda ban as nothing more than «big PR.»

But Miner's job, first and foremost, is as an advocate for her city, and if that means calling out the governor for «budget gimmicks» that could increase the long - term fiscal pressure on Syracuse, then so be it.

«I can not overstate the urgency of the need for all parties to come together to negotiate a realistic, responsible budget that addresses our state's fiscal issues, distributes education aid equitably and balances without the use of illusory gimmicks,» he wrote.

For one, he vowed to veto any budget that includes deficit financing — singling out both Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch's borrowing scheme and a gimmick fronted by Senate Democratic leader John Sampson to refinance bonds issued in anticipation of income from the state's tobacco - lawsuit settlement.

«Don't take our word for it: ICYMI, here's @NYDems takedown of @NYGovCuomo's budget gimmicks.»

According to Councilman Hoehmann, «while the budget at first glance looks good, upon closer analysis budget gimmicks are used that only mask the problem and will result in a certain downgrade in our bond rating and other negative consequences unless we once and for all address the issue».

Equally appalling is the fact that even this year's state budget is balanced by using one - time revenues and budget gimmicks that Malloy promised he would not utilize when he was running for governor.

«If the pupil premium turns out to be a token amount of money compared to existing deprivation funding, extra funding on top of a smaller budget, or paid for by cutting other programmes that help the most disadvantaged children then this announcement may turn out to be little more than a gimmick.»

Additional proof that this budget move is nothing more than a gimmick, is the fact that the new budget makes no attempt to provide the additional resources that would be needed to care for those children, if they were actually moved back into the Bridgeport schools.

That budget is in such bad shape that in July the Civic Federation of Chicago, a good government group, opposed the new school budget for the first time in 5 years because the budget is structurally out of balance, meaning it uses gimmicks to make the numbers work and is unsustainable over the long term.

There's never any games or gimmicks and you'll never feel pressured into purchasing something until you're 100 % confident you've made the right choice for your budget and life.

There's nothing to make the 5X really stand out in a crowd, and for a budget phone that's not too surprising — you want money spent on materials and build, not necessarily design gimmicks or cutting - edge hardware features that can't be executed fully for this kind of phone.