Sentence examples for a serious fiscal problem from inspiring English sources

We would have faced a serious fiscal problem even if those tax cuts had never happened.

The rapid fall in oil prices from July to December 2008 (from 129 to 32 USD per barrel for the Venezuelan basket) created a serious fiscal problem for the Venezuelan government (GBRV) in 2009, leading it to cut spending in real terms and issue a significant amount of debt.

Still, the bills face a serious fiscal problem.

His reading of two centuries of case law on the contract clause, Eastman says, is that public pension plans can be modified if there's "a real serious fiscal problem, a dire financial need — and the system is underfunded.

In the long run, he said, "Given the tax cutting we've done to date and the obvious spending requirements we have with defense and homeland security, we're going to have a very serious fiscal problem".

These are the sounds and sights at City Hall this spring, as the mayor and the City Council wrangle over how to close a roughly $5 billion budget shortfall, the city's most serious fiscal problem since the 1970's.

"The most serious fiscal problem is the result of a good thing.

Even the beleaguered Postal Service received an A-minus last year, presumably before serious fiscal problems helped prompt a price increase this summer, to 37 cents for a first-class letter.

Now, even countries with a fairly healthy economy can run into serious fiscal problems if they have a dysfunctional political system that fails to match up spending commitments with resources: the U.S. comes to mind.

Neither Mr Hatoyama nor Mr Ozawa appeared keen to grapple with Japan's serious fiscal problems, including a debt-to-GDP ratio that is the highest in the world and only gets worse because of entrenched deflation.

Every sentient being knows that the U.S. faces serious fiscal problems, but there is a lot of uncertainty about how extensive they are.