Sentences with phrase «local government spending because»

First, it provides no incentive to curtail school and local government spending because there are no constraints on raising new revenue.

No 10 said the government had to look at local government spending because it represented a quarter of all public money.

Not exact matches

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

They do get up to # 20,000 a year on «allowances», but the Local Government Association argues this is not a proper income because they're being compensated for the time they spend on the job.

Mr Balls said: «Eric Pickles fell asleep for a quite extended period of time and Ed and I were worried because there might have been some big cut in local government spending coming which he didn't know about.

It's because of the spending of our towns and local governments,» he said.

School districts and local governments have voiced concerns that a 2 percent cap as proposed by Cuomo — and approved by the Republican - led Senate in January — would be too difficult to live within because of required spending for debt, health care administration and distribution and pensions.

«Eric Pickles fell asleep for a quite extended period of time and Ed [Miliband] and I were worried because, you never know, there might have been some big cut in local government spending coming which he didn't know about so we just politely suggested to Vince Cable that he should wake him up.»

Del Lago spokesman Steven Greenberg said Tuesday the casino faces a «blatantly unfair competitive disadvantage» because the Seneca Nation stopped making casino revenue sharing payments to state and local governments in Western New York and spent $ 50 million on promotions and incentives «to lure customers from del Lago.»

Local authorities estimate they are spending # 340 million every year to deliver places, because the government's basic need funding does not actually cover the full cost of delivering new places.

Talbot said the measure ultimately will save the state money, because the voucher amounts will be less than what state and local government now spends on a child in public schools.

Collectively, we spend over 40 billion dollars on our animals, giving to animal related charities is the fastest growing segment of American philanthropy, and No Kill is on the agenda of local governments nationwide because people are demanding it.

If, for example, some money from carbon credit markets is passed to local governments to administer and certain enterprising local governments find ways through legislation to spend it on carbon credits (because that option offers the best e-CO2 reduction / $) then the money passes back to the Federal govt and the pool of carbon credits shrinks.