Sentence examples for fiscal compromise from inspiring English sources

House Republicans appear immune to any fiscal compromise.

He has signaled more willingness for fiscal compromise with Democrats than Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio, for example, have.

The fiscal compromise reached this week did include one modest form of stimulus, though: a one-year renewal of the federal government's emergency unemployment benefits program.

As Think Progress pointed out over the weekend, the G.O.P.'s version of fiscal "compromise" sounds a lot like the Reagan-era voodoo economics that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan advocated during the campaign.

So far this year, two major bills — the multibillion dollar Hurricane Sandy aid package and the fiscal compromise that let tax rates on high-earners rise — have made it through the House without a majority of Republicans voting yes.

Most of the reader reaction was critical: I was unfair to Obama, I gave short shrift to the pigheadedness of the Republicans, I was too enamored of a grand fiscal compromise, I was wrong to suggest any tampering with Medicare or Social Security, etc.

But a report published on December 15th by the finance commission, which brokers fiscal compromises between the centre and the states, argues vehemently against such fiddling.

Despite Washington's history of delaying fiscal compromises to the last possible minute — as in the fight over raising the debt ceiling in the summer of 2011 — investors had assumed until very recently that a deal would be completed before year-end.

The too clever fiscal compromises, the friction between Orszag and Summers, and the earnest discussions about behavioral economics were all part of a fairly self-contained process, one far less infected by politics than what comes next.

At a time when the markets are cheering the recent fiscal cliff compromise and the compromise avoidance of the debt ceiling, Mr. Ryan's churlish insistence that sequestration will not be fixed because the Democrats will not accede to his one-sided plan is a new low in economic brinksmanship in the face of real evidence of recovery.

To be sure, similar Republicans were also very supportive of the fiscal cliff compromise, but, tonight, the divisions are even starker.