balance the budget

Had not the Depression taught that attempts to balance the budget would only worsen an economic downturn?

you know, balance everything, balance the budget. And I said I could balance it on my shoulder, the rest with my finger. . . nothing else.

He said he would balance the budget and invest in the city's infrastructure, all without raising property taxes or using one-off revenues.

Gillard told Australian television that she decided to attach equal importance to balance the budget and reconstruction.

The administration itself has no plan to balance the budget. Its own budget forecasts a trillion-dollar deficit as far ahead as 2019.

Balancing subsidy: A subsidy given by the central government to help balance the budget of a local authority.

If it is serious about recovery, the United States must balance the budget, stimulate private saving, and embrace a declining dollar.

The coalition government promises that it will not "balance the budget on the backs of the poor" .

We certainly wouldn't try to cut the deficit or balance the budget while the ship is still taking on water , right ? Right ?

It must be led by a figure who can credibly promise to balance the budget and implement a growth strategy.

Americans hate paying taxes. They also want Congress and the White House to balance the budget.

Misguided attempts to balance the budget in the wake of the 1929 crash turned a nasty recession into the Great Depression.

"The Mayor should be commended for his work to balance the budget and plan ahead for tougher times, " Mr Thompson said in the report.

Critics argue that the drastic spending cuts needed to balance the budget would negatively impact an already weak economy.

The company will lay off workers to balance the budget.

F. D. R. 's premature attempt to balance the budget in 1937 almost destroyed the New Deal.

Because it would be a mistake to balance the budget by sacrificing our children's education.

Many initiatives have either limited taxes or mandated spending, making it even harder to balance the budget.

The trick will be to reconcile tax reform with the need to withdraw fiscal stimulus as the economy recovers and to balance the budget.

We will in fact need a trajectory of rising tax revenues to balance the budget within a few years.

Bill Clinton worked with Newt Gingrich and Republicans to balance the budget and create surpluses.

President Reagan had promised to cut taxes, raise defense spending, and balance the budget.

Let's review those figures and try to balance the budget.

It does, however, increase the pressure to balance the budget.

It aimed to balance the budget by 2002 by, among other things, curbing Medicare payments to doctors.

Right now, triumphant conservatives in Washington are declaring that they can cut taxes and still balance the budget by slashing spending.

The lack ofseriousness is defined by three missing words: "Balance the budget. "

From here on out, we are going to balance the budget.

We also must balance the budget and pledge never again to expandthe money supply.

To balance the budget you can spend less or tax more.

In particular, the government already looks like missing a long-agreed target to balance the budget, before interest payments, by 2011.

Spending has surged recently: the oil price needed to balance the budget today is about $110, twice what it was in 2008.

Anybody who says we can balance the budget without raising taxes is just talking through his hat.

There will be time to balance the budget later.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie said he supports Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's strong action to balance the budget,