Ditto for onerous taxes, record budget deficits and lack of demand.
They were put in place after 2011's row over raising the budget ceiling, in an attempt to force lawmakers to find a less onerous ways to reduce deficits and stabilize the national debt.
Mr. Corzine, a former chief executive at Goldman Sachs who has referred to himself as an old banker, expressed regret that he had been unable to provide enough government streamlining and economic growth to ease New Jersey's persistent budget deficits and onerous tax burden as the state struggles through the recession.
The visit was part of a continuing effort by the Obama administration to dramatize the real-world impact of the budget cuts, which were enacted 18 months ago by both parties as a way of persuading lawmakers to compromise on less onerous ways of reducing the deficit.
UPDATE, 4 26 p.m.: Statement from the Tea Party Express: "This report is ridiculous and an affront to the millions of Americans who are deeply concerned about the growth and intrusiveness of the federal government with the accompaniment of higher taxes, more onerous government regulations, high annual deficits and a skyrocketing national debt.
Even as the Yankees trailed the Mariners, 4-0, in Game 6, the deficit did not seem onerous.
A Mexican official said that under the accord to be signed Tuesday, the country agrees to cut that smaller amount to zero - a less onerous exercise than halving the larger deficit.
It has a web of bilateral deals with Brussels though these may yet be torn apart by the Swiss referendum in February that rejected the free movement of workers.Above all, Switzerland has a successful currency union without the euro zone's onerous central edicts on everything from deficits to labour policy, pensions and investment.
That deficit level is not as onerous as, say, Greece's at 9 percent or Ireland's at 13 percent.
First off, there is a $15 million deficit to manage, made more onerous by the board's inexplicable and costly decision to forgo staged productions in the current season while the David H. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater) is being renovated.
