"Government spending" refers to the amount of money that a government uses to pay for various things like public services (such as healthcare and education), infrastructure development, defense, and social welfare programs. It is the money that the government uses from taxes and borrowing to fund these activities.
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The poll also included results from questions about how much different levels of
government spend on education.
It also said that it was unlikely a state pension would still exist for today's young people when they hit old age, given the current scale of
government spending cuts.
This cost was at least partly offset by
reduced government spending on foster care placements and public services related to child maltreatment.
The two - year budget bill that ended a 9 - hour government shutdown last week included $ 20 billion in direct
government spending for infrastructure over the next two years.
The survey found 65 % of respondents in favour of
government spending money for wind power, while 76 % said the same for tidal energy and 78 % backed financial support for solar.
The federal
government spends about $ 5 - billion a year on R&D, spread over 60 programs across 17 different government departments.
The research, which was to study the effects of environmental stress due to climate change on shrimp and other economically - important species, was attacked as another example of
wasteful government spending.
And the other main source of economic growth over the next couple of years will come
from government spending, led by the federal government's infrastructure program.
This would take «
total government spending to its lowest level as a proportion of national income since before the last war».
The governor repeatedly has touted
state government spending on upstate projects and made the pitch that the region is turning around.
They complain about
how government spends their tax dollars, but don't look at how charities spend their donations.
It was largely protected in the recent
government spending review, which speaks not only to its economic value, but also to its increasing public profile.
This next chapter of development can not just be about
what governments spend, it has to harness the unprecedented resources of our interconnected world.
In particular, we need to reduce taxes on families, something that can only happen
if government spending is reduced.
Perhaps the last
government spent too much on buildings and equipment and not enough on evaluating what programmes worked.
This results in slower growth and thus tax receipts, whilst simultaneously increasing
government spending through pensions and healthcare.
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.
The federal
government spends only 10 percent of all funding for schools, with state and local governments equally splitting the remaining 90 percent.
We need to get
government spending under control, and we need to get our economy moving again by facilitating investment and personal wealth creation.
So taxation makes politicians more accountable on successful outcomes for
government spending not just on large inputs, particularly so when economic times are tough.
When the unified budget is not in surplus, these payments are made through some combination of increased taxation, reductions in
other government spending, or additional borrowing from the public.
While the federal
government spends nearly $ 12 billion a year on special education programs, only about $ 10 million has traditionally been set aside for gifted education.
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