Sentence examples for austerity options from inspiring English sources

Andrew Symington Managing director, Symington Elvery Am I the only one to notice that the fiscal measures supposedly aimed at "Jams" (Easing austerity: Options for Hammond, 21 November) – air passenger duty cut, freeze on fuel duty, increased personal tax allowance, increased Isa limits – in fact benefit the better off as much if not more?

"Labour needs to be distinct and I hope Corbyn as leader moderates his own position to create a consensus and work across the party to create an anti-austerity option for English voters".

Now, it's possibly true that the pledges Labour made didn't include much on the subject of AI, but it's probably fair to say that after seven years of Tory rule the main "radical" priority was putting across a clear anti-austerity option, as opposed to one obsessed with cyber-crime or green transformation.

DealBook »   Europe, Tired of Austerity, Has Few Options  |  Even the elite policy makers in Europe have begun to question whether the cutbacks have gone too far, but as Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund recently acknowledged, many countries do not have the resources to pay for spending programs, The New York Times reports.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] - Your leader on debt reduction, which you admit is a "painful process" that will "dominate the rich world's economies for years", focused on three policy options: austerity, exceptional growth and default ("Handle with care", July 9th).

In a time when Congress is being pushed towards more fiscal austerity, these legislative options will be unpopular, but in the end, the costs of these programs today are far less than the costs of unemployment, crime, dropouts, and lost productivity tomorrow.

So unless other debt-strapped European economies with populations far exceeding Latvia's 2.3 million people can find foreign labour markets to accept their workers unemployed under the new financial austerity, this exit option will not be available.

But the fear of some is that each round of cuts and savings becomes harder and that as long as the austerity programme continues, unpalatable options could soon become more widespread.

The success of his "austerity is the only option" narrative is impressive, but cutting on this scale was not considered inevitable by other countries.

The Spanish government has urged Europe to take a hard line with the new administration in Athens, all too conscious that any concessions could benefit Podemos and discredit the argument that austerity was the only option.

Due to their failure to make structural reform, Greek politicians fell back on the easy option of austerity — across-the-board cuts to wages and pensions and tax hikes — which provided quick revenue but decimated households and businesses and deepened the recession.