Sentence examples for general spending for from inspiring English sources

Despite what the administration wants the public to believe, surplus funds collected by Medicare and Social Security will almost certainly be tapped to pay for the president's tax cut and general spending for the foreseeable future.

The governor also plans to take about $25 million that was set aside for environmental programs and use it instead for general spending.

Mr. Bush said that he would allocate $1.62 trillion to his tax cut, $153 billion to adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare, $20 billion for general spending and $417 billion to the additional interest costs from using the surplus for purposes other than debt reduction.

The Lib Dems' £99,423 share was instead used for general spending.

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It is simply not the case that we have large unused funds immediately available for general spending.

Today's contributions are used to pay beneficiaries who contributed yesterday, and the surplus of current contributions is "lent" to the federal government and used for general spending.

Already, about one-fifth of state general spending goes to pay for pensions and service debts, a proportion that will soar in coming years.

Critics say that diverting money from the fund for general spending, instead of using it on emissions control and energy savings, makes the initiative little more than a hidden tax on electricity.

All or almost all of this year's remaining surplus will come from the Social Security system, which politicians in both parties have declared off limits for general spending or tax cuts.

The resolution sets general spending and revenue targets for the coming year; the details of a tax cut would then be worked out in later legislation.