Sentences with phrase «government money spent»

They argue for a redressing of the massive imbalance between government money spent on farming subsidies, and that spent on lessening the damage farming does to the environment.

The result is that the amount of government money spent on research is being eroded by inflation.

The same year, South Africa's highest court ruled that Mr Zuma had violated the constitution when he failed to repay government money spent on his private home.

Not exact matches

Under this hypothetical policy, governments transfer money directly to taxpayers to encourage spending, a handout funded by issuing bonds with a coupon of zero and no maturity date, which central banks buy.

There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing more into making car parts from plants.

The federal government's housing strategy will help some people, but it will do nothing to alter price dynamics, especially as the money will be spent over a decade.

In her announcement, Gillibrand criticized the 2010 Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that the government should not regulate the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on campaigns.

A government grant does not normally need to be repaid, although you may be expected to provide evidence to show that the money was spent legitimately as opposed to being used to pay for a holiday in the Seychelles.

«If companies aren't going to spend, the government could do more for economic growth [by] spending that money on infrastructure.»

Appointed to the position in 2009 by President Barack Obama, his job was to overhaul how the government spends money on technology, a task he did until departing last summer.

Since governments are going to have to spend significant amounts of money if the plant closes, why not simply pay to keep the plant open instead?

Monetizing the debt means using money creation as a permanent source of financing for government spending.

«The government spent taxpayer money developing a rule few investors seem to want,» he said.

Sept. 30 marks the final day of fiscal year 2015 and members of Congress are working to pass a bill that would allow U.S. federal agencies to continue spending money, thus avoiding the second federal government shutdown in two years.

Rising fuel prices are causing government coffers to swell, and in a web poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., 126 leaders of Canadian companies offered their opinions on how that money should be spent.

The Penn Wharton Budget Model predicts the added debt eventually would reduce economic growth, as money that might have been spent on productive investment instead ends up in the market for government bonds.

Lobbying, both public and private, is likely to occur when companies think that governments are spending too much money on one thing, and (as a natural result) too little on others.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Baumgartner, who became the first man to break the sound barrier after leaping from 128,100 ft above the Earth almost two weeks ago, urged the US Government to divert the money it spends on Mars toon environmental projects on Earth.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending will reach small firms, either directly in federal contracts or indirectly as this money makes its way through the economy.

Hence Lingenfelter's rider for Bright Futures: it «would be independently managed, and the government would not be allowed to withdraw money to cover short - term deficits and day - to - day spending.»

The Canadian Media Guild (which also represents unionized workers at The Canadian Press) worries the new money from the federal government wasn't a reinvestment in the CBC so much as spending on companies producing CBC programming.

A yearning for culture Despite all the money the government spends on subsidizing housing, the resulting environment leaves a great deal to be desired.

If a company boss can't play with a government official, there's little point in him spending his money,» said the owner of a golf equipment store in Shanghai who only gave his surname as Huang.

When governments run prolonged deficits, they are spending money that belongs to future generations.

He also assessed whether the Fed could stimulate the economy through the use of so - called «helicopter drops» in which it would create money and give it to the government to spend without requiring repayment.

Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO talks about the launch of USAFacts, a new website which offers a the American people an «annual report» on where the government is spending its money.

GDP typically is calculated by adding up consumption; investment; government spending; and the difference between exports and imports (exports add money to the economy, imports subtract).

They also need to ask themselves hard questions about their government's fiscal policy, including why their country continues to spend so much money on defence.

Those who want to curb the century - old SALT deduction argue it only motivates local governments to seek more tax increases and spend more money.

«Governments can only spend what Parliament has approved and only on the specific purposes approved, except this slush fund will allow the Liberals to move the money wherever they want,» Poilievre said recently during question period.

Turns out, getting rid of one set of subsidies meant to lower poorer Americans» out - of - pocket health costs can actually raise premiums significantly — and consequently cost the government way more money to help subsidize the premium increases, to the tune of 23 % more spending relative to the cost savings.

Noel Archard, head of BlackRock Canada, points out that for a market to fire on all cylinders you need to see government, consumers and private businesses all spending money.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

The federal government's going to spend a lot of money that supports the overall economy in a way that we haven't seen for a number of years,» Warne told Yahoo Finance.

Sixth, contrary to what the president believes, borrowing money from China to expand government spending is not economic development.

Therefore, it is trying to mandate that business spend its own money pursuing the government's goals

Where should the government spend money to buffer the decline?

Either way large deficits will lead to recovery pumping money and spending into the economy, either a weak recovery that fosters greater inequality, or stronger recovery that funds needed government programs.

The New York Times covered the exciting news that the federal government has met its goal of awarding 5 percent of money spent on contractors to women - owned businesses.

The central bank under its previous chairman, Jean - Claude Trichet, had long resisted more aggressive action, unwilling to flood the market with money the way the Fed did in 2008 until governments committed to reining in spending and deregulating their economies.

She was going to cut back social spending, Social Security and medical care, so that the government would have enough money to pay her backers on Wall Street.

Instead, we should have been financing our budget deficits by having our central banks (or the ECB) simply create the money and credit it to the various governments» spending accounts — that is, by using helicopter money..

Critics point out that the digital currency's lack of ties to any bank or government, allowing users to spend money anonymously, can facilitate illicit payments.

The money is being provided by other governments (mainly the German Treasury, cutting back its domestic spending) into a kind of escrow account for the Greek government to pay foreign bondholders who bought up these securities at plunging prices over the past few weeks.

In other words, government spending will keep sucking money out of the private sector, only the payment method will be different.

With more money the government can spend more on the people, on care and infrastructure.

- The Trudeau government has spent impressive amounts of money on affordable housing and homelessness.

Budgets are a moment where governments show their real priorities: if something matters to them, they spend money to support it.

With a cleaner economy we would actually have much more government money to spend on healthcare.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.