Sentences with phrase «thinks budgets balance»

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There is good reason to think the Bank of Canada governor had reservations about former prime minister Stephen Harper's obsession with balancing the budget.

There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

While he would have liked to have seen more investor - specific changes — «it's always nice to have more rather than less,» he says — he thinks it's unlikely we'll see any reductions in capital gain taxes or major increases in TFSA room until at least 2015, when the government says it can balance the budget by.

Though immigration may strain some local budgets in the short term, costs and benefits tend to balance out in the end, said Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

While this was a fiscally austere budget, it was also pro-business and pro-growth, and I think it struck a pretty good balance between growth and austerity.

Now that Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló has introduced a fiscal proposal that will cope with the island's debt and balance the budget, and our decisions are being disciplined by a federal fiscal control board, we need to start thinking about what it will take to create a sustainable economy where more companies like Señor Paleta can grow.

Last year, when asked about balanced budget legislation he told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance «I don't think writing something into law, and then expecting that future governments will be held by that, is realistic.»

Many of these companies already enjoyed a bump in share prices when the Liberals won the election, and again after the budget announcement, but Nazir thinks the real gains will come once the extra cash starts showing up on balance sheets.

«Being of Irish heritage, I know that what he must be thinking is that there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and over St. Patrick's Day I'm sure he'll search out a leprechaun to lead him to that pot of gold so that he can balance the budget,» Flaherty said.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong may have called this year's provincial budget a «triple B» effort (a «boring balanced budget»), but The Vancouver Board of Trade thinks today's budget deserved a B +.

Second, we now know that the Conservatives actually think that running a governmdent is like balancing the family budget.

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I think we will get some version of the so - called penny plan to reduce spending as well (penny plan = hold flat nominal discretionary spending, or reduce it or 1 % each year until the budget is balanced).

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

Balanced budgets are wishful thinking and the Finance Minister should drop balanced budgets as a fiscalBalanced budgets are wishful thinking and the Finance Minister should drop balanced budgets as a fiscalbalanced budgets as a fiscal anchor.

I thought balancing the budget was good, then Dubya decided the best thing for the USA is to completely destroy our financial credibilty (and murder lots of people).

Until he decides to stop hiding and act like he actually cares I think it more likely we'll get a balanced budget than he exists.

I think we have to control our spending, and we have a moral obligation to balance our budget and not overly burden future generations.

I hear the current debate about the 1 % vs the 99 % and everybody giving their fair share, and how to balance the budget, and so on, and I just think that no matter what, nothing will change until people from the top to the bottom become less greedy.

If a municipality thinks they can rely on balancing their budget by lowering the speed limit, townies need only follow the law to show them how foolish a plan it was.

I just think Romney knows how to balance a budget.

lets all thank arsene for finally doing the right thing only time will tell but have we finally signed the DM we need STRONG MINDED NO HOLD BAR MIDFIELDER WE HAVE ALL CRAVED, but lets take it back we all know it will take 2 or 3 more like minded players to make us great again, he has tricked us all buy buying one superstar in the last 3 windows ALEXIS, OZIL and CHEC great players but can't do it all on their own, spending huge amount of money and saying we can buy the best players, on the surface this looks great we are buying top top players big prices but instead of spending his usual 50 mill on 2, 3, 4, 0r 5 players he has pulled the wool over are eyes with 1 superstar thinking the fans are that dumb enough to believe it, infact he has never spent his budget only balanced on sales too purchases, i love arsenal but this summer i hope for more he needs to do that consistently through out the team spend the same amount on the team stop balancing the american owners, grow a pair say yes we will buy a top defender and a world class striker, stan we love arsenal please be one of us do whats needed then you will fell proud as we are and we will adore you for it.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

«Working with President Clinton in the White House, I learned how to do what the Tea Party won't: create jobs and balance the budget — without even thinking about ending Medicare's guaranteed benefit.»

«We've always said that the Budget moves have to be balanced and fair and we're all really proud of taking Britain's poorest workers out of tax altogether and we have to always have a balancing act on this and I think, frankly, most of the party understands that and should be very proud of what we've achieved amongst a tough economic backdrop.

There are things I would not like to see in this budget, but on balance I think it's a good budget.»

I think we have to accept the reality that the structure of the finances are broken and that just balancing the budget on bubble gum and duct tape isn't going to work anymore.»

«But I also think some of these things are issues you have to look at from the perspective of good government, you know, are we keeping with our responsibilities in order to balance a budget for the city?»

He also thinks the state budget will likely remain in balance.

«New York State has a budget to balance, and Governor Cuomo thinks the way to do it is by slashing New York's public schools,» she said, throwing

think balanced budget, energy independence, transparency, pro-Israel, even pro-democracy - reference poor Honduras.

I think that the balance of powers in the budget process needs to be changed back to something like that and I believe that the constitutional amendments proposed in A4630 would do a decent job in that regard.

At the center of the debate is whether the deficit is really $ 62 million or $ 80 million, except in Meyers» case, as he believes the deficit to actually be more than $ 80 million, and voted against the bond because he does not think his colleagues are serious about balancing the budget.

Superintendent Kriner Cash thinks the district did a good job coming up with a balanced budget, considering it didn't get as much state aid as it had hoped.

All the Orange County legislators were provided with documentation of factual cases of civil forfeiture abuse; law enforcement agencies and local municipalities using the proceeds of forfeiture properties, cash and cars to balance their budgets; articles from conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation against this law and public comments from citizens, attorneys and former police officers expressing their view against this law.

«The comptroller's duty is to perform his own survey — he can say if he thinks the budget is balanced and say if he perceives any risks on the spending or income side.

«I really think the problem is the Chancellor George Osborne, who balances a budget on the basis of cutting PIPs then I listened to the budget on Wednesday and it was very clear to me that was what he intended to do.

A balanced budget, once thought to be a distant and politically difficult goal, now seems to be at hand.

So when we were thinking about the year's major breakouts in terms of direction, we tried to strike a balance between those who we can see moving on to $ 200m budget spectaculars and those whose next modestly - priced, heartfelt piece of personal expression we can't wait to see — essentially, we've tried to mix in industry breakthroughs with neophyte arthouse filmmakers and even a few better known names who have seen a quantum level leap in terms of their profile in 2014.

A. All presidents have to work successfully with boards of trustees, balance budgets, develop senior leadership teams, and think about articulating a vision.

Collaborating with ones partner Many of the leaders Groysberg and Abrahams interviewed said how much they valued their partners emotional intelligence ~ task focus ~ big - picture thinking ~ detail orientation in short ~ whatever cognitive or behavioral skills balanced out their own tendencies Partners can help them keep their eyes on what matters ~ budget their time and energy ~ live healthfully ~ and make deliberate choices sometimes tough choices about work ~ travel ~ household management ~ and community involvement.

In the spring of 2011, when this survey was administered, no one thought it would be easy for school districts to balance their budgets.

Given that school districts largely do not have to face the vagaries of «selling» their services to fickle consumers, one might think that balancing the budget would be fairly straightforward.

Nearly as many people think the CPS budget should be balanced by raising taxes on businesses as by closing schools.

When the budget is this far out of balance on a net present value basis, every sane proposal sounds insane to those who think the past should continue.

If the US Treasury thinks it can get things under control, the rational thing to do is to stuff the long TIPS buyers with as much product as they can gulp before it becomes obvious that low inflation will continue because the government will soon balance the budget and pay down debt, as they did after WWII.

Therefore, I don't think the question is about striking the right balance between these two elements, but rather to have as much of each element as possible in the budget of our financial resources.

In a sense, what Willis has done is manage to make the same mistake as the people who think that the Earth is in «radiative balance» and try to work out a tedious budget of everything going in and out.

I can think of a number of pieces of B.C legislation that came into force on April 1st: for example the Balanced Budget and Ministerial Accountability Act, S.B.C. 2001, c. 28 (April 1, 2002), the Coastal Ferry Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 14 (April 1, 2003) and the Museum Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 12 (April 1, 2003).

I think a lot of British Columbians who are undecided about Kinder Morgan Inc.'s pipeline expansion megaproject, and even a few who wholeheartedly support it, will be annoyed by the suggestion they have a role they must play in balancing Alberta's budget.