When asked for sources to support the statement, a spokesperson for the Productivity Commission told The Conversation that
real government spending on education had increased from $ 40.7 billion in 2004 - 05 to $ 50.4 billion in 2013 - 14.
Real government spending in New York and New Jersey rose more than 40 percent from 1977 to 1997, the last year for which complete data are available.
Not exact matches
Second, while it makes sense that an environment in which investments, like
government debt, are yielding a smaller return might cause people to
spend less today in order to make their retirement goals, there just isn't a lot of evidence that this happens in the
real world.
The German - dominated European approach is to avoid easy fixes and seek
real, long - term solutions, notably deep cuts to
government spending.
And yet, as Reynolds points out, the Conservative - Liberal coalition
government actually increased
spending in
real - dollar terms by 5.3 % in the past year.
If the
government took the resources they are
spending on television ads telling us about how they want fairness in the mobile phone market and
spent it on effectively executing a mandated wholesale regime, then Canadians would have
real change.
Budgets are a moment where
governments show their
real priorities: if something matters to them, they
spend money to support it.
So
government debt is increased by giveaways to the banks, not by
spending into the «
real» economy.
The
government spending that Mr. Bernanke has endorsed is pure bailouts to the banks, insurance companies,
real estate packagers and other Wall Street institutions so that they can support asset prices and thereby save the economy's financial balance sheet, not its employment and living standards.
Well it's not too bad at all if you're a banker because now these countries like Greece and Ireland are broke and now the bankers get to go to them and say, well, you have to finance your
government spending not by
government running a deficit — but sell us your
real estate, sell us your mines.
These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «
spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy
government bonds, corporate IOUs,
real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»
Cutting back
government spending will reduce private - sector income, making it even harder to carry the corporate,
real estate and personal debt overhead, so the debt problem will snowball.
Unfortunately, for nearly two decades, the
real value of this fund has not increased in any significant way, as successive
governments decided to use the royalty revenues to fund current
spending, not to invest for tomorrow.
The Fear Trade, of course, is driven by low to negative
real interest rates — when inflation erodes away at
government bond yields — deficit
spending, a weaker U.S. dollar and geopolitical uncertainty.
Take Away: The package might include measures to boost exports, investments, infrastructure,
real estate and other sectors with
government spending.
Weak demand across residential, office and retail sectors has been evident since the decline of oil prices at the end of 2014 and continues to impact
government spending and general sentiment, says the Abu Dhabi
Real Estate Market Overview Q3, 2016.
In other words, the federal
government is today
spending nearly 50 per cent more
real dollars per citizen than it did a decade ago.
In simple terms,
government took
real revenue,
spent it, and then added more debt each year.
Isn't the
real problem the
government's fear of intervening in the economy directly despite the crying need to crowd in emissions - reduction and climate - change - adaptation
spending?
This money too can be
spent on foreign assets,
real estate, stocks, bonds, luxury cars, clothing, and the purchase of political favors, as well as to pay taxes to foreign
governments on these holdings and the income they generate.
While you are at it our great
government spent billions on Katrina clean up yet 96 % of the
real work came from charitable organizations and yes churchs were the biggest releif and work force present.
Solve the
real problems (jobs, the economy,,,) and the deficit,
government spending and creating «smaller
government» all become realistically more achievable.
While we wait for our
government to go through it's usual «slow to respond / proceed cautiously / let's hear both sides for a few years before we
spend anything on this issue», my stalwart position remains that, in the meantime, we need to do everything we can as parents, educators, private companies, friends and neighbors to simply offer our kids
real, wholesome food over the junk.
Assembly Republicans are united and more committed than ever to advancing
real solutions such as delivering mandate relief, cutting
government spending, lowering taxes and growing the private sector so we can restore the unfulfilled promise of New York.»
The result would be that QE for People bypasses the financial markets and gets money straight into the
real economy, either through increased
government spending or by transferring it to the pockets of the people who will
spend it.
This structural deficiency of what
government spends its resources on and who are the
real beneficiaries thereof, is worsened by another structural problem - the structure of Nigeria's pseudo-federation with one overwhelmingly large and not surprisingly wasteful and inefficient federal
governments; 36 handicapped states; and 774 almost utterly useless local
governments which are now de facto area offices of the handicapped states and therefore doubly - disabled and dysfunctional.
In our analysis, the rarest type of fiscal squeeze is «double hard» when
governments reduce public
spending and increase tax revenue both in
real terms and as a proportion of GDP.
The coalition
government's first
Spending Review in 2010 set an ambitious target to reduce running (administration) costs by 34 per cent in
real terms by 2014 - 15.
He rails against
government spending and Albany corruption, except when the
spending benefits him personally or the insider deals concern his
real estate empire.
Government watchdogs expressed concern that the budget added more than $ 700 million in new agency
spending since January despite reduced tax - revenue projections from
real - estate transactions and personal income taxes.
«Returning to fiscal reality after the Labour
government's huge
spending spree is clearly necessary, but the overall fall in
real terms
spending will be modest.
The Chancellor said: «The disability budget will still rise by more than # 1billion, and we'll be
spending more in
real terms supporting disabled people than at any point under the last
government.»
«Welcome to the
real world: values cost money, but right now the
government just doesn't have money to
spend.»
«Isn't it time the
Government intervened and looked at the
real cost of this — which is damage to children's education but also # 1.3 bn
spent last year on agency teachers?
School districts, teachers unions and local
government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a
real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place,
governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct)
spending choices while retaining essential services.
While the Department of Health (DoH) has been spared many of the cuts being implemented in other
government departments, the rising costs of the NHS mean that a cap on income amounts to a
real - terms
spending reduction.
When compared to 2000 levels of
spending, is this an increase / decrease in federal
government spending (in
real dollars) per citizen?
The thinktank calculates that the reality of the
government's small
real terms increase in schools
spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that
spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.
Rather then take on
real issues like pension reform,
spending cuts and privatization of
government services he chooses to take on meaningless issues.
The result of adopting these
spending totals is that under a Conservative
Government there will be
real increases in
spending on public services, year after year.»
Although total cash
spending by the
government will actually rise by a cumulative 5 % by the end of this Parliament, there will be a
real fall of around 4 %.
Spending in these areas will rise by 0.4 per cent in
real terms, far smaller increases than they enjoyed under the last
government.
At stake is the authority of the prime minister, as Tory rebels dispute the
government's motion suggesting that the best way to approach next month's EU budget negotiations, covering the period from 2014 to 2020, is to argue for a
real - terms freeze in
spending.
«I congratulate Charles Djou for his victory and a successful campaign based on the widely - shared values of cutting
spending, shrinking
government and creating
real, permanent American jobs,» said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (Texas).
The state's ethics commission released the top
spending lobbyists to try to influence state
government during the 2015 legislative session, and found that education and
real estate groups were the biggest spenders.
The truth is that this
Government has de-stabilised the NHS with a re-organisation nobody wanted and two years of
real - terms
spending cuts.
Government figures show that
spending on Housing Benefit rose in
real terms by 34.7 per cent between 2007 - 08 and 2013 - 14.
The The group wants the
government to provide more details of
spending plans for
government departments and a path for
spending that is flat in
real terms rather than the future
real terms growth that was pencilled in at the time of Darling's pre-budget report.
He confirmed the
government will defend NHS
spending in
real terms, but made no similar pledge for the schools budget or the overseas aid programme.
The Labour leader then abandoned the economy (Ed Balls has just told the BBC he ought to have done a second question on the economy) and
spent two questions claiming the
Government was not going to increase health
spending in
real terms, praying in aid a health committee report.