Sentence examples for arbitrary spending from inspiring English sources

Oxley, then campaign director for the Taxpayers' Alliance, said at the time that "hitting an arbitrary spending target is not something to celebrate, quite the opposite".

We believe the commission's draft is fundamentally flawed, because it sets an arbitrary spending target of 21 percent of the economy.

"But there's no reason why we should have another crisis by shutting the government down in addition to these arbitrary spending cuts".

But the passports crisis in recent weeks has shown what happens when jobs are cut and offices are closed for no reason other than to meet arbitrary spending targets in the name of austerity.

"Relying on arbitrary spending targets is not a good way to make health policy, especially when decisions may be left to the unelected and unaccountable," said A. Barry Rand, chief executive of AARP, the lobby for older Americans.

Negotiators have yet to work out a deal to stop the arbitrary spending cuts known as the sequester, which are scheduled to slash $110 billion from the defense and domestic budgets beginning this week.

The "fiscal cliff" showdown at the end of 2012 had led to higher payroll taxes and had locked in earlier cuts to jobless benefits, while "the sequester" — deep and arbitrary federal spending cuts enacted to end a previous debt standoff — kicked in on March 1.

Lesson #6: These arbitrary, automatic spending cuts did not result from a "failure to communicate" in Washington.

Now, insurers are prohibited from setting arbitrary lifetime spending caps, so that no family has to fear the burden of economic distress, in addition to an emotionally trying illness.

They fall in and out of love, but their passions seem abrupt and rather arbitrary; they spend much of their time complaining about themselves or the others.

There is no economic or social argument to justify these arbitrary targets for spending and debt, especially when the cost of debt service, given low interest rates and the average 14-year term of our government debt, has rarely been lower over the past 300 years.