Sentences with phrase «greater public spending cuts»

Remarks he had made at a private meeting of Conservative Way Forward - in which he suggested that the party could make greater public spending cuts than those to which it had publicly committed itself - were leaked to the media and his resignation as a party deputy chairman was not enough for Michael Howard.

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Chicago Public Schools has increased property taxes the past two years, a move Emanuel has justified in part by talking about cost - cutting initiatives at the central office and the need to emphasize greater spending on the city's children.

Your doctrine of so - called «expansionary fiscal contraction» — that the faster you cut public spending, the greater the boost to private investment and growth — has been exposed as intellectually bankrupt.

The greatest falls were seen in public non-housing such as education and health and with the public sector spending cuts already taking effect this will only exacerbate the situation.

«Perhaps the task ahead for our Government today is slightly greater, as Baroness Thatcher never managed to cut public spending.

At one point in the electoral cycle there was a substantial difference in the two main parties» approach, with the Tories demanding cuts to public spending and Labour veering towards promises of greater investment.

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.

Impact assessments may not make for great sound bites or lurid tabloid headlines, but they do result in better policy, and at a time of severe cuts, there is a pressing need to ensure all public spending is as effective as possible.

Clegg tried to show a bit of Thatcherite ankle before his spring conference last weekend, praising the Great She - Elephant's victory over the trade unions as «immensely significant» and saying that the public finances should be repaired by spending cuts rather than tax rises.

Accordingly, a majority in all seats — reaching two thirds in the Conservative - Liberal Democrat battleground — agreed that «it is right to start cutting back on public spending now because the longer we put off dealing with the deficit the greater the cost of sorting it out».

Addressing the Greater London Association of Trades Councils at Congress House, general secretary Brendan Barber said trade unionists had to unite to fight public spending cuts.

Ed Miliband has suggested the party would put a larger emphasis on greater taxation rather than public spending cuts.

The first concerted attempt to map out a new agenda for Labour urges greater economic credibility on public spending cuts.

On the central economic issues, the Conservatives have secured their red - line commitment to cut # 6bn from public spending this year, as well as a greater emphasis on deficit reduction through spending cuts, as opposed to tax rises.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.