Sentence examples for generating a budget from inspiring English sources

As expected, Osborne's economically illiterate goal of generating a budget surplus by 2020 has provided cover for another round of cuts and sell-offs, reducing the size of the state still further to 36.5%.

Creditors like Mr Schäuble hope the package will make Greece more competitive and thus spur economic growth, as well as generating a budget surplus to be used to pay down debt.

Earlier this year the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which has put forward proposals of its own for an annual wealth tax, said the chancellor, George Osborne, would need to raise more in taxes or cut expenditure further to meet his fiscal promise of generating a budget surplus by the end of the parliament.

The 120 percent debt-to-gross-domestic-product goal for 2020 assumes that Greece will be generating a budget surplus equal to 4.5 percent of G.D.P. by 2014, and that the Greek economy will be growing at 3 percent annually by 2016, said David Tan, lead portfolio manager of the international fixed income group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

The Tories' more general fiscal policy is to generate a budget surplus in all normal years.

And if low savings does limit investment, governments can generate a budget surplus out of which investment can be financed.

Responding to the chancellor's Mansion House speech earlier this week, they said a law forcing the government to cut spending or raise taxes every year to generate a budget surplus, characterised as Micawber economics, would suck the economy dry and within a few years could trigger another credit crunch.

Matt Miller of The Washington Post noted that the People's Budget would, unlike the Roadmap for America's Future advanced by Representative Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, generate a budget surplus at a predictable point in the future, winning the "fiscal responsibility derby".

Simply explained, the federal government generates a budget deficit whenever it spends more money than it brings in through income-generating activities such as taxes.

If there was one policy associated with the Tories it was further deep spending and welfare cuts to generate a budget surplus.

When a country's GDP is smaller, generating a lower budget surplus as a percentage of GDP can have the same impact on its economy as a higher surplus would have on a proportionally larger economy. .