Sentences with phrase «pledges of a balanced budget»

Its top - line pledges of a balanced budget, tax - cuts for the low - paid, investment in health and education, and environmental protection will not be deal - breakers for either the Red or Blue negotiating teams.

Not exact matches

What Oliver should have done was backtrack on Harper's pledge to balance the budget, recognizing that the collapse of oil prices would cause private investment to disintegrate.

The best fiscal rules are more flexible, promising to keep the structural deficit in check, for example, or pledging to balance the budget over a number of years.

Mulcair's balanced - budget promise sought to reassure NDP - wary voters but also curtailed the party's ambition, while the Liberals peeled off progressive support with its own abandonment of a budget - balance pledge, plus its exciting flash of radicalism — a vague plan to legalize marijuana.

He pledged to veto all unfunded mandates on local governments if he's elected, and also nix any bill — be it Democrat or Republican — that increases spending and throws the budget out of balance.

[1] Democratic candidate Bob Kerrey has been critical of Fischer for signing the pledge, arguing that it limits her ability to work toward a compromise to balance the nation's budget.

Given that he's pledged to cut taxes, balance the budget, and get rid of the deficit, a President Romney would have a hard time squaring this circle.

The Tories» pre-budget media blitz has been peppered with a number of such low - cost pledges, such as legislation to enshrine balanced budgets and tighter rules for charitable status to curb the link between charities, terrorists and organized crime.