Not exact matches
From a fiscal perspective, the argument exists that the tax revenue generated would be significant and would assist in
balancing the
budget.
However, the party excludes this entirely
from their
balanced budget plan, which starts with the 2014 Liberal
budget as a baseline for their forecast revenue:
Their plan to
balance the
budget involved 18 billion dollars in spending cuts, along with $ 16 billion in additional revenue gained
from economic growth.
It's hard to dispute that citizens benefit
from a
balanced budget, and ensuring compliance with state withholding seems to get most states closer to that goal.
Well then, Stephen Harper will need to cut billions
from spending to meet the 2015 deadline for
budget balance that Flaherty reaffirmed today.
More
from the New York Times: Charles Zwick, who
balanced budget under Johnson, dies at 91 The era of very low inflation and interest rates may be near an end Trump says Cohen's legal troubles do not involve him
In an era when there is a $ 200 billion infrastructure gap just for Canadian municipalities but political leaders at all levels are convinced the public wants
balanced budgets, where will the dollars come
from?
Only if the Government fully realizes its savings
from the Debt Reduction Plan Savings Target would the
budget be
balanced in 2015 - 16, but just.
Financial experts say the central bank's intervention seems to have catalyzed a virtuous circle: As new governments come in and promise to deliver spending cuts, tax increases and
balanced budgets, once gun - shy banks have an added incentive to tap new financing
from the central bank and jump back into bond markets that they were running
from just a few months ago.
The Update incorporates the October average private sector economic forecasts and an increased «adjustment for risk» for 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, as well as an increase in employment insurance rates of only 5 cents (employee rate) for 2012, rather than the 10 cents set in legislation As a result, the
balanced budget target is delayed
from 2014 - 15 to 2016 - 17, prior to the inclusion of the Targeted Strategic and Operating Review Savings (now called «Deficit Reduction Action Plan Saving Target»).
But Kathleen Wynne's spending binge next week will press the deficit back up to $ 8 billion dollars
from the previous
balanced budget — Notley, governing a province three times less populous, has had to (gently) scrape its way to an $ 8.8 - billion shortfall.
But Jim Prentice got that backwards, and this is how we got the Alberta NDP, as it appears today: afraid to trim spending, unlikely to raise taxes further, and hoping that a gradually recovering economy can
balance the
budget eight years
from now.
[2] C.C. Howe Institute Commentary «A Faster Track to Fiscal
Balance — The 2011 Shadow
Budget» and the Fraser Institute «
Budget Blueprint: How Lessons
from Canada's 1995
Budget Can Be Applied Today»
Chula Vista faced a $ 400,000 deficit this fiscal year, but a $ 1.6 million Federal Emergency Management Agency reimbursement
from the January 2017 storm helped them
balance the
budget.
It is worth noting, however, that we believe it is incumbent on the government to keep spending within declared levels, and to appropriately apply any unexpected gains (i.e.
from a stronger than forecast GDP growth, higher energy prices, etc.) to the deficit and thus hasten the return to a
balanced budget.
However, whether or not a
balance budget will be recorded for 2015 - 16 will not be known until the fall of 2016 — a full year
from now.
It is my view that the greatest weakness of economics is the habit of drawing, or encouraging politicians to draw, macroeconomic conclusions
from microeconomic reasoning («the government
budget, like a household
budget, must
balance»).
In the 2013 Speech
from the Throne, the Government for some mysterious reason committed to
balancing the
budget in 2015 - 16 and that is the corner they have now painted themselves into.
One could reasonably expect that the Government will spell out in more detail its «
balanced budget legislation», referred to in the Speech
from the Throne
The federal government is not confronted with a short - term fiscal crisis but it is facing a stubborn medium - term structural deficit that will prevent you
from balancing the
budget by 2015 - 16, without new expenditure cuts and / or tax increases.
While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to
balance the
budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming
from lower than expected nominal GDP.
As the state is struggling to pay pension costs and
balance the
budget, new statistics show that the top 10 retired state employees are all receiving more than $ 225,000 per year
from the state.
President Donald Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion
budget plan Monday that envisions steep cuts to America's social safety net but mounting spending on the military, formally retreating
from last year's promises to
balance the federal
budget.
«The suggestion that these promises that are coming fast and furious
from Mr. Horgan and the NDP can be accommodated within a
balanced budget, absent massive tax increases, is simply absurd.»
«The question that flows
from that of course is what taxes are going to be increased to accommodate that, or is the NDP simply not telling the truth when it says it's going to
balance the
budget?»
Balancing the
budget four years
from now is the easy part.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the numbers show the Conservatives have been unable to
balance the
budget except for the surplus they inherited
from the former Liberal government a decade ago.
Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining
balanced budgets; protecting Canadians
from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.
The bottom line is that after the prolonged tax giveaway exacerbates the federal
budget deficit — along with the
balance - of - payments deficit — we can expect the next Republican or Democratic administration to step in and «save» the country
from economic emergency by scaling back Social Security while turning its funding over, Pinochet - style, to Wall Street money managers to loot as they did in Chile.
Apart
from balancing the
budget, the third Harper government has considered trade its highest priority.
The first panel of Table 3 summarizes the changes in the budgetary
balance from the March 2010
Budget to the October 2010 Update as presented in the Update.
On the other hand, they set a firm fiscal anchor by saying that they would
balance the
budget in their fourth year, and reduce the federal debt to GDP ratio
from 31 % in 2015 to 27 % in 2019.
A
balance budget is not expected until 2051 - 52 three decades
from now.
While
Budget 2018 manages to shrink the projected deficit to $ 18.1 billion
from the Fall 2017 Update's projected $ 18.6 billion, government has promised $ 21.5 billion in new spending yet does not set out a path to return to
balanced budgets.
 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the
budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned
from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the
budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the
balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).
A dramatic increase in debt differs starkly
from the rumored goal of on -
budget balance for the overall Senate
budget resolution.
Help the weak, learn
from the smart and
balance the
budget.
I hear the current debate about the 1 % vs the 99 % and everybody giving their fair share, and how to
balance the
budget, and so on, and I just think that no matter what, nothing will change until people
from the top to the bottom become less greedy.
This tasty Mince and Pea dish, also known as Keema Matar is one of my favourite
budget friendly Ayurvedic recipes
from my book Eat Right For Your Shape, and is ultra wholesome and
balancing for finance fearing Vatas who require affordable and grounding comfort food at the end of their day.
wenger has made the club profit this window i would have though as well all incomings have been covered out goings and other revenues coming in like c / l monies and squad releases wages being saved i bet we are in a +
balance if we went through it properly we do nt know what the
budget is so it could be worst there now way wenger has spend # 100 not even # 70 million transfers ospina = covered by the sales of miquel and monies made
from cesc to chelsea so nothing really spend there debuchy = covered by the vela money chambers = covered by the vermalen sale # 11 million only goes up to # 16 if he does well in certain circumstances sanchez = covered by the c / l monies and no doubt what we are owed on previous player sales i.e cesc to barca and song monies still outstanding welbeck = covered by wages being freed up and the rest of outgoing transactions and previous player sales being owed so there we have most likely recoup most if not all of our transfer monies back and shafted and lied to puma and the emirates about spending there monies in sponsorship on tranfers and pocketing in» profit» aprox # 60 - 70 million of the transfer funds to boot wenger hang your head in shame
The Chicago Park District Board passed a
balanced budget for 2003 of $ 338 million Wednesday, despite an outcry
from city residents and union members about cuts in park employees» hours.
For years, the district
balanced its
budget through staff cuts and increases in non-tax revenue, cutting district employees to 3,405 in 2001
from 4,938 in 1993, Parks Gen. Supt. David Doig said.
Just think about it: if you were trying to
balance a very tight
budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came
from homes in which nutritionally
balanced, home cooked meals are far
from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips
from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?
But many school systems seek catering work and sales
from vending machines or a la carte desserts or side dishes to
balance their
budgets.
One of DiNapoli's predecessors, former Comptroller H. Carl McCall, noted in my DN column that he had twice successfully sued two different governors — Mario Cuomo and George Pataki — to prevent the pension fund
from being raided to
balance the
budget.
[Oneida County Executive During his time as Oneida County Executive,
from 1991 to 1996, he proposed six straight
balanced budgets.
My priorities will be to slash wasteful federal spending, set our nation on a path to a
balanced budget, end bailouts for bad business decisions, take leftover money
from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit, and repeal Obamacare.
Judging the amount of money cut
from the
budget for those with physical / emotional disabilities to
balance his
budget I have absolutely no use for and don't believe Cuomo's comments.
Maloney said, «I'm running because there is an urgent need to take back our Congress
from extremists who reject smart investments in health care, education and infrastructure; who reject sensible tax policies that create jobs and
balance budgets; and who would end Medicare as we know it.»
According to the draft audit, «City officials have not developed a plan to transition away
from using casino revenue to
balance the
budget.