Sentences with phrase «to have a balanced budget»

Would he have a moment to talk about the effect the proposed state shutdown settlement, which would balance the budget by holding back 40 percent of education funding?

Since we don't have that balanced budget, since we keep borrowing money, the people aren't confident with what the future looks like.

According to the district, the move would balance the budget, currently facing a $ 27 million deficit.

In either case, don't miss out on a crucial part of having a balanced budget: ensuring that every penny has a purpose.

In an op - ed for the Wall Street Journal published online Monday night, the House Budget Committee chairman said his plan would balance the budget in 10 years without raising taxes.

But the Hagan campaign was an exemplar of Democratic centrism, touting her as an ardent moderate (as if there is such a thing) and advertising her as a «deficit hawk» who would balance budgets without increasing taxes.

The PQ has laid out plans to reduce that pesky deficit as well, stating the government would balance the budget by the 2015 - 2016 fiscal year.

On the economy, the Lib Dems would balance the budget through a mix of spending cuts and tax rises, while safeguarding capital spending by re-incarnating Gordon Brown's «golden rule».

«The state has a balanced budget right now,» Silver said.

Every state except Vermont has a balanced budget amendment, yet states have wracked up large unfunded liabilities for their pension and retiree health plans.

In 1975 New York City was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, having balanced its budget for years with massive borrowing and shady accounting tricks.

But I'm certainly not going to apologize, as a Canadian, for having low taxes while also having a balanced budget which is creating jobs in Canada.»

Ronald Reagan spent much of 1981 and 1982 claiming that economic growth would balance the budget.

Without these budget «tricks», the government could not have paid for its income tax cuts announced last October and still have balanced the budget.

Five of 10 provinces have balanced budgets, including Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia.

For far too long, schools have balanced their budgets at the expense of student health by selling some of the worst junk food out there, in competition with the healthier, nutritionally balanced school meal.

In addition, both California and Illinois have balanced budget amendment language in their constitutions, however both states are swimming in billions of dollars of red ink.

The world had survived Y2K; the stock market was topping out; George W. Bush had moved into the White House; and the US government had a balanced budget.

In effect, Harper may have balanced the budget by pushing the burden onto households.

New Jersey has bitten the bullet in the short run, and has balanced its budget through shared sacrifice.

There are some delinquents, of course: opposition leader Andrew Scheer said during his campaign to lead the Conservatives that he would balance the budget within two years of becoming prime minister.

Mr. Harper will continue to claim he has balanced the budget leading into the election.

Having balanced the budget the PC party became a machine devoted to providing those who greased its wheels «with handsome emoluments.»

On the other hand, they set a firm fiscal anchor by saying that they would balance the budget in their fourth year, and reduce the federal debt to GDP ratio from 31 % in 2015 to 27 % in 2019.

Will we have balanced budget legislation in Canada devoid of analysis of where the economy is operating relative to the cycle?

Well, that's what they were busy doing during the Bush years which is why we are in such a huge hole, under Clinton we were making headway and had a balanced budget.

«We will pass everything that we have to pass to have a balanced budget and we are completing our work on substantive things as well, and we will be leaving.

The effect of this is that the US states have nearly all laws that require them to have balanced budgets and it is well followed.

In the end of the day I assure you we will have a balanced budget.»

Cuomo pointed out that 24 percent of Syracuse's budget comes from state revenue, but still Syracuse and other cities say they have a balanced budget.

Whereas Conservatives campaigned for a surplus on all government spending, including investment, by 2018 - 19, Labour stated it would balance the budget, excluding investment, by 2020.

In its report, Standard & Poor's said the town's financial outlook could be upgraded again if officials continued to have a balanced budget and increased and maintained the reserves.

So we put them all together and came up with all of it matches, so we have a balanced budget,» said Joy.

In the last two and a half years, I have balanced the budget, closed $ 42 billion in deficit, protected the State's credit rating and never passed out an IOU.»

Another interesting point from these numbers is that the last year a 100 % tax on income over $ 1m would have balanced the budget was 2007, when the deficit was around $ 160B.

We have to have that balanced budget.

We have to have a balanced budget.

«For years we have balanced the budget on the backs of Connecticut's most vulnerable population,» Candace Low told the Appropriations Committee.

However the state lawmakers have interpreted that language to mean Indiana must have balanced budgets.

In the primary, Mr. Foley ran as a front - runner, offering few specifics on how he would balance the budget and rev up job numbers.

«For eight years, I have balanced the budget and held the line on taxes while legislators have made the same claim,» he said in a statement.

Having balanced the budget and tem pered property taxes, Gov. Cuomo is now focusing on New York's most pressing need of all: creating jobs.

In the Town of Clarkstown the buck stops with Supervisor Gromack who claims to have balanced the budget every year of his administration while failing to admit that this was done by selling Town assets and depleting the Town's Emergency Reserve Fund.

We will formulate a plan for the coming financial year, when we hope to have a balanced budget, and a series of longer - term plans based on various cost reduction scenarios.

This may actually reflect an additional explanation for how well schools have done in the past: States are required to have balanced budgets, so they raise taxes when times are tight and then keep the new rates when the money flows again.

School districts are legally obligated to have balanced budgets and can not balance anticipated expenditures through deficit financing.