Maldonado helped devise the 2009 budget compromise, which included a big temporary tax hike.
The paper describes the methods used to devise the formula, and how the resulting model can be used to help set budgets for general practices.
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He restored public credit in a nation bankrupted by war debt, devised the first tax, budget and accounting systems, installed the customs service and Coast Guard, and conceived the first central bank.
The act strengthened the chairman's role in drafting military strategy and devising the Pentagon's budgets; it created a new position, vice chairman, and it gave important new powers to commanders who would lead mixed forces — land, sea and air — into battle.
Disraeli's task as Chancellor was to devise a budget which would satisfy the protectionist elements who supported the Tories, without uniting the free-traders against it.
They had moved, the previous day, to an encampment in front of the parliament where they demanded that Members of Parliament devise a budget that would give the clerks a pay raise proportionate to inflation and commensurate with salaries of the police, army and the judiciary.
The SuperCommittee devised to cut the budget deficit has been meeting in secret and may rubber-stamp a Farm Bill that will encourage bad farming practices--the type that lead to obesity, environmental degradation, and unfair world trade.
For the coming year, the governor, who cultivates an image as a fiscal conservative, chose not to devise a budget that would cut spending back to take into account the loss of one-time revenues, like the extra federal aid for Medicaid, budget analysts said.
