"I don't think by any means that these are going to be offsetting big chunks of our food supply," Ackerman said.
"I think you're going to find less doctors feeling comfortable with cannabis, and if that's the result, the increased access by allowing home growing is going to be offset by fewer doctors feeling like prescribing," said Levy.
"We are going to be negatively impacted by this offset so, gosh, I wish I was wrong and I wish the system was wrong, but I don't think it is".
But the $1.4 billion increase that the Legislature is seeking is almost certainly going to be offset, because legislative leaders will seek to lower the governor's estimates of what certain programs will cost.
And, second, if it looks like a giveaway, it is almost certainly going to be offset by savings elsewhere (possibly from the welfare budget after 2015, because Osborne will today be announcing the welfare cap he is going to impose restricting the amount a future government can spend on non-pension welfare spending).
We knew the industrial sector was going to be weak but we hoped this would be offset by services.
I don't know how they're going to be able to argue that extending permanently these high-end tax cuts is going to be good for our economy when, to offset them, we'd end up having to cut vital services for our kids, for our veterans, for our seniors.
In the future, many employers say they are going to take steps to offset the increased costs of offering extended coverage, according to the Mercer survey.
Kieckhefer later played that early report down, when he told the Tahoe Daily Tribune that Nevada did not intend to demand an involuntary payment from Fossett's widow, but that such a payment would be voluntary: "We are going to request that they help offset some of these expenses, considering the scope of the search, the overall cost as well as our ongoing budget difficulties".
"I suspect they are going to have a hard time offsetting the increased regulations," said Mr. Fitzpatrick.
