Sentences with phrase «politically untouchable»

I thought the Obama White House had brought something useful to the budget debate with its visual depiction of United States spending — which revealed the profound growth in politically untouchable programs and the almost invisible dimensions of programs on education, research, innovation, development assistance and the like.

«In a lot of ways, Dickey - Wicker is the third rail» of politics — politically untouchable, says one biomedical research lobbyist.

The programs were launched by Congress during Ronald Reagan's first term and can be found in virtually every congressional district, making them politically untouchable.

While this tax break only benefits 20 percent of taxpayers, it has always been very popular in the emotional rhetoric of the housing market and therefore politically untouchable.

Canada's controversial but politically untouchable dairy supply management system can be reformed, while addressing the concerns of wary politicians, consumers tired of overpaying for milk and...

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In electing Trump, the American precariat has manifested perhaps an unconscious collective desire to make the economic elite — the untouchable 0.1 percent that has ravaged their lives — politically accountable.

Benedict Cumberbatch keeps the cards close to the vest as Bulger's very public and politically powerful brother Billy, long - untouchable in Boston even as Whitey's depredations grew in notoriety.