Sentences with phrase «of budget gimmicks»

However, the way Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly played with State Account 35416 is a prime example of the type of budget gimmicks that were used to help create this year's projected «surplus.»

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Lengthening the budget window simply to allow for more years of deficit - financed spending increases or tax cuts would be an unfortunate gimmick that would undermine many of the important benefits of long - term scoring.

The Senate bill currently uses several budget gimmicks to try to get around the limits of reconciliation.

Gimmicks are no substitute for a comprehensive online outreach plan, though, and this initiative also has the secondary effect of opening Republicans up to criticism of their OWN record on the budget — something onto which Democrats were quick to hop.

Not all of Gov. Cuomo's budget proposals to save money involve new taxes or fiscal gimmicks: One is pure good sense.

Some were describing the move as a classic Albany budget gimmick reminiscent of the state's 1990 «sale» of the Attica prison to itself in order to raise $ 200 million.

In fact, the plan is very much in line with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's lament earlier this year that the state's budget process uses a series of gimmicks to balance spending each year — a tradition that the governor has vowed to change.

The NY Post says Cuomo's proposed executive budget is «so full of holes, gimmicks and «structural challenges» that even usually mild state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is sounding alarms.»

The budget builds on the Governor's record of fiscal responsibility by closing a multi-billion dollar deficit with no new taxes, fees or gimmicks.

«I can not overstate the urgency of the need for all parties to come together to negotiate a realistic, responsible budget that addresses our state's fiscal issues, distributes education aid equitably and balances without the use of illusory gimmicks,» he wrote.

The state originally transferred maintenance of I - 84 to the Thruway Authority in 1991 as a budget - balancing gimmick.

For one, he vowed to veto any budget that includes deficit financing — singling out both Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch's borrowing scheme and a gimmick fronted by Senate Democratic leader John Sampson to refinance bonds issued in anticipation of income from the state's tobacco - lawsuit settlement.

«Don't take our word for it: ICYMI, here's @NYDems takedown of @NYGovCuomo's budget gimmicks.»

Cuomo's budget division says it will cover most of the $ 3.5 billion deficit with unspecified cuts (and some accounting gimmicks, no doubt, like re-classifying certain spending programs) that hold operating spending growth to 2 percent.

The budget he delivered this week is chock full of accounting gimmicks and plugging holes with one time funding sources.

«In its intent, the cap is financially prudent, but it has fostered the use of fiscal gimmicks that make the state's budget more complicated to understand and undermine transparency,» according to the commission's report.

Friedfel says the «gimmicks» include a proposal to shift the cost of paying some state workers from the general fund to a capital fund, worth $ 227 million, which does not count towards total spending in the budget.

Two years ago, Miner publicly criticized Cuomo's leadership, calling one of his budget initiatives to help cities a «gimmick» in a New York Times opinion piece.

Unfortunately as you look at these initiatives and the victories we have had we have been stymied by a Supervisor who would rather stay with the status quo — a Supervisor that would rather implement budget gimmicks — a supervisor and a Town Board majority that is looking at only self - interest and not the interest of the people they serve.

by Walter Chaw Billed as being filmed in a single shot (though the skeptical — and those taken in by the «unedited» long takes of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men — should wonder why an editor is credited), Gustavo Hernández's zero - budget conceptual experiment The Silent House (La casa mudi) has found a way not only to suggest a gimmick successfully carried through, but also to weave that gimmick into a richer thematic tapestry.

Unlike Sean Baker, who found great success in his 2015 street drama Tangerine, interestingly among the first few feature films to dabble in Apple, Soderbergh's implementation tends to draw attention to style and like the worst of found - footage (which this film mercifully isn't), ends up more as a gimmick than the product of creative budgeting.

But director Josh Trank's debut feature doesn't run into any of those problems, and it's exactly because the script and acting are so good that he's able to utilize the low - budget gimmick to his benefit, delivering a fresh take on found - footage and superhero movies in the process.

«The White House is using scare tactics and budget gimmicks to kill K - 12 education reform, because they know a new law will lead to less control in the hands of Washington bureaucrats and more control in the hands of parents and education leaders.»

Yet here we are; a state behind the curve when it comes to economic recovery and well ahead of the curve when it comes to budget deficits, fiscal gimmicks and dysfunctional leaders.

«If the pupil premium turns out to be a token amount of money compared to existing deprivation funding, extra funding on top of a smaller budget, or paid for by cutting other programmes that help the most disadvantaged children then this announcement may turn out to be little more than a gimmick.»

That budget is in such bad shape that in July the Civic Federation of Chicago, a good government group, opposed the new school budget for the first time in 5 years because the budget is structurally out of balance, meaning it uses gimmicks to make the numbers work and is unsustainable over the long term.

There's nothing to make the 5X really stand out in a crowd, and for a budget phone that's not too surprising — you want money spent on materials and build, not necessarily design gimmicks or cutting - edge hardware features that can't be executed fully for this kind of phone.