Sentence examples for higher social spending from inspiring English sources
But others point out that several Nordic countries have recently been governed, quite satisfactorily, by minority governments.Moreover, the Social Democrats demand for higher social spending is just what makes Mr Schüssel and Austria's majority of voters on the right most queasy.
First, fiscal policy needs to be tighter, to boost savings and to allow higher social spending when recession strikes.
Many Western governments are struggling to pay for higher social spending as revenue has fallen in tandem with a deteriorating global economy.
Raul Alfonsin, a former president and the leader of Mr de la Rua's Radical Party, recently called for higher social spending.
But I suspect we may be in the early stages of a revolution in social attitudes towards interest rates akin to the changes that have swept across politics in attitudes to higher social spending.
But Labor's program includes opposition to tax cuts for middle and high-income earners and other revenue-raising measures, and this gives it a war chest for higher social spending.
But nations with high social spending typically tax alcohol, tobacco and gasoline highly, he notes, which contributes to better health and environmental quality.
Liberals and conservatives alike can reconcile all good things: fiscal rectitude (for both), tax cuts (for conservatives) and high social spending (for liberals).
First, he says, the tax systems of countries with high social spending are less antigrowth than is realized because nations in Scandinavia and Continental Europe typically derive so much tax revenue from regressive consumption taxes.
Yet it is also wedded to high social spending, has a romantic attachment to powerful labour unions and does not seem to believe in free markets, at least when it comes to housing.
By destroying the incentives to work, welfare states weaken growth, they say.In contrast Peter Lindert of the University of California, Davis claims that historical analysis suggests no link between high social spending and growth rates.
