"Everyone must be in the same competitive situation, including on the fiscal level," Hollande said.
Hague's traditional Tory promise to tax less but somehow spend more on public services such as health and education is, on a serious fiscal level, seriously unconvincing.
A central part of the stability is realized through strengthening the role that the partner governments play in managing and running these programs, beginning with their ability to have an oversight function that allows for continued transparency on the fiscal level.
Second, on a fiscal level, this district has suffered under Republican incumbent rule in terms of infrastructure.
On spending, we would put a hard cap on all appropriations that freezes spending at fiscal 2008 levels.
This year, the council would have to restore nearly $50 million to bring the budget back to fiscal 2010 levels, an amount that seems unlikely to be at the council's disposal given the current economic climate and competing constituent demands.
It'd be like fiscal cliff level chaos.
Which would mean that the city would have to return to pre-fiscal-crisis-level funding for the Parks Department, or at least, as New Yorkers for Parks has suggested, be given a discretionary capital fund to help the parks most in need.
At the state level and in cites the results were similar, even when Carnes took into account fiscal resources, poverty levels, racial and ethnic demography, and the political party composition of the legislature.
The sequestration cuts are significant, but it's important to understand that if they were to go into effect, they would return the Pentagon to fiscal year 2007 levels.
