Sentence examples for deficit law from inspiring English sources

A "zero deficit" law aims to end deficit spending and slash state salaries and some pensions by up to 13%.

The country's new "zero deficit" law is meant to prevent additional borrowing, but it will work only if the provinces cooperate by restraining spending.

Most say that their decision not to block the "zero deficit" law in Congress was the last favour the government can expect until after an election in October to renew the Senate and half of the lower house.

Nor is it certain that the government can keep its fiscal vows.Passed last month in response to a drying up of credit, the "zero deficit" law prohibits the government from spending more than it raises in taxes.

To reduce the budget deficit, law makers need to take a good look at our criminal justice system and how punitive methods of incarceration waste not only billions of dollars, but also human lives.

He has made opposition to the bipartisan deficit reduction law of 2011 the centerpiece of his campaign.

All the familiar topics were there – taxation, the deficit, education, law and order, defence and of course the NHS.

Last year's Budget Control Act, the hard-fought deficit reduction law that allowed the nation's borrowing limit to rise, set up a bipartisan committee tasked to agree on at least a trillion dollars in deficit reduction.

Not even the millions of marketing dollars spent were able to overcome the deficit the law's structure created - though it certainly didn't help that some of those dollars went to the ill-conceived Buddy mascot that was sent to tour college campuses.

The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law was poised to force deep spending cuts.

Under the new deficit-reduction law, the package is supposed to receive an up-or-down vote in the House and the Senate by Dec. 23.