Sentences with phrase «record budget surplus»

So in an era of record ten and twenty billion dollar budget surplus on top of record budget surplus, we are not talking big sums to close this particular divide.

The statistics office also said that the public sector, which includes the federal government, regional states, municipalities and social funds, posted a record budget surplus of 38.4 billion euros, or 1.2 percent of GDP, in 2017.

We have had political scandals, economic crisis, been run by Democrats and Republicans, who have both given us record budget surpluses and record budget deficits.

Not exact matches

By the time Martin recorded a «surprise» budget surplus of $ 20 billion in 2001, the opposition parties and the public had stopped giving the Liberals the benefit of the doubt.

Despite the fact that economic growth for this year is now forecast to be substantially lower than that expected at the time of the April Budget, Mr. Oliver is still confident that the federal government will record a surplus in 2015 - 16.

As the president's last budget director, he helped engineer the only federal surplus to be recorded over a span of almost 40 years.

As a result, there is a very likely that a balanced budget or even a surplus will be recorded in 2014 - 15.

During his tenure as Minister of Finance, he erased Canada's deficit which was the worst of the G7, subsequently recording five consecutive budget surpluses while paying down the national debt and setting Canada's debt - to - GDP ratio on a steady downward track.

I'm very skeptical of most of the public voices who are loudly in favor of budget cuts now, because too many of them were the same people praising the Bush tax cuts that blew the deficit through the roof (nice work that, turning surplus into record - setting deficit in just a handful of years).

After you subtract $ 23 million for the current fiscal year (a number that does not, for the record, fit with state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's projection of an up to $ 1 billion hole in the current budget), that leaves a two - year General Fund surplus of $ 415 million.

The Legislature recently concluded its mid-year budget hearings and it was reported that the county is operating below budget, recording a surplus.

«The fact that Governor Johnson brings to the table his executive - level experience and a proven record of fiscal responsibility and that he left his term - limited post in New Mexico with a balance budget and a $ 1 billion budget surplus, I believe that he would be the best candidate to represent the Libertarian Party on a national level», said State Chairman, Victor Kocher.